Recent content by BlueToast

Not to say he isn't intelligent or possibly knows what he is talking about, but I have met some pretty ignorant and arrogant people who established their apparently infinite and all-knowing knowledge over videos and encoding on merely taking and passing a [heavy?] course in college.. and clearly...

Not SPAM. :\ If you still think it's SPAM, then I hope your post is what gets removed. :rolleyes: :D

Heh, well, after this incident and spending $90 + other costs to get my laser repaired (totally up to roughly $500 for an Arctic Spyder S3), I don't think I will be disassembling my laser and making such attempt. :D I'm happy enough that I have a 1W 445nm laser that works. (For those wondering...

Would welding mask work for goggles? This is a question some people have asked me, and have been wondering myself (although personally, I would get some real goggles instead; not advertising, but just a note to self).

So how does this work? What determines the effective "wattage" output of a diode (or laser)? Does it work differently for different wavelengths of light? ie. Possible to do a 10W red, or is there a diode limitation? How big (physically) can diodes get? Sorry, just curious and want to learn...

Would someone be kind enough to direct/recommend me to some optics for focusing my 445nm 1W laser? :)

This is probably one of the stupidest newbiest questions, but do or can blue lasers cause cancer? Somehow I read (or misread) somewhere some time ago along these lines in regards to "touching" the blue laser with hands. How does this apply to a 1W? : o EDIT: Just exactly how awfully dangerous...

Poor kid. Someone should show him the product page on WL's website where it says "1 Watt" and not "1 GigaWatt"

Does this mean I can't order batteries+charger from WL? :(

This picture looks amazing. Do you have more?

Daguin is repairing my laser; I don't want to sell my laser if I don't have to. :)

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Wow, that laser is a beast.

If it helps any, the light spot of my 1W Spyder Arctic S3 (before I broke it) upon my driveway made of rocks looked like a welding torch in use. You don't want to look at it without the proper goggles to filter out the wavelenth of the laser. X_x

But what if you had a satellite that would transmit/receive data between the space craft, and then the right technology for back-to-ground-on-Earth transmission. Space craft would only have to be able to see the satellite from Mars, and as long as the lasers on both can be seen by each other...