I’m tired of buying what seems to be disposable lasers for pointing at trees.
I work as an Arborist and we tend to use basic pen green laser pointers with mixed results. Out here in the PNW we frequently will be trying to point a fine focused green dot on a green evergreen canopy about 150’ up and ~ 100’ away. With a fully charged set of batteries and an overcast day it works just OK. Even better with a super light fog as the dot widens and is more visible. Often I’ll have my customers behind me trying their best to find the bouncing green spec on the foliage.
I know next to nothing other than the super basics that green is supposed to be the brightest in daylight, and the max legally allowed in the states is 5nm (but I don’t even really know that that means). Obviously I would never be pointing at a person, plane, or animal. I know a consulting arborist who had a badass laser, which likely isn’t legal. It’s about the size of a moderate handled c cell flashlight, and shoots a pink dot that is about 3-6” in diameter and is impossible to miss when pointing at a tree. It must be durable as I know he’s had it for well over a decade and it’s battle scared.
Can anyone point me to a good quality, long lasting laser that hopefully is in the $200 price tag range? Are there any there with an adjustable beam diameter? A solid on off switch and disposable batteries are a plus.
I work as an Arborist and we tend to use basic pen green laser pointers with mixed results. Out here in the PNW we frequently will be trying to point a fine focused green dot on a green evergreen canopy about 150’ up and ~ 100’ away. With a fully charged set of batteries and an overcast day it works just OK. Even better with a super light fog as the dot widens and is more visible. Often I’ll have my customers behind me trying their best to find the bouncing green spec on the foliage.
I know next to nothing other than the super basics that green is supposed to be the brightest in daylight, and the max legally allowed in the states is 5nm (but I don’t even really know that that means). Obviously I would never be pointing at a person, plane, or animal. I know a consulting arborist who had a badass laser, which likely isn’t legal. It’s about the size of a moderate handled c cell flashlight, and shoots a pink dot that is about 3-6” in diameter and is impossible to miss when pointing at a tree. It must be durable as I know he’s had it for well over a decade and it’s battle scared.
Can anyone point me to a good quality, long lasting laser that hopefully is in the $200 price tag range? Are there any there with an adjustable beam diameter? A solid on off switch and disposable batteries are a plus.