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North of 20mA. The tube is surely stressed. Not sure how much more but the power supply can supply to 30mA. The potentiometer is ramped up about a third past the mid way point., if its truly linear that puts it at exactly 20mA. my multimeter fizzled out so no way to know for sure.

I was under the impression that the ssy-1's were nd:glass not YAG but they are indeed yag :( Those range finders were so cheap too.

I have no idea bout the router, my buddy brought it over and asked if we use it for our surface mount class. I had other plans :eg: Yeah there are a few ways to do it, I know there are surplus range finders from m1 abhrams tanks that are surely quite accurate (powerful lasers in their own...

Thanks guys :) But coletech makes some nice ultra short high powered co2 laser tubes. it's a 40W @ 700mm = 27.55 inches long. Its over driven a fair amount which I estimate to be outputting around 50W. They actually have an 80W co2 laser tube thats only 1100mm long! or 43 inches! But the...

Heres a sweet video of the unit blowing some shit up.... literally. (this was before some of the upgrades I did as far as compactness goes.... YouTube - ‪real Co2 Laser Rifle‬‏

Iv'e looked online for some info on salt lenses or how to's but couldn't find a whole lot. Miniaturizing the power supply and inverter was a chore times 2. (had to build an inverter from scratch bc there wasn't one I could find that was small enough... Also there seems to be a set of...

Hello everyone, I am pretty new to the forum (not to lasers). I have a question about optics for my co2 laser rifle I've recently built. I'm trying to pinch the beam down into a thin parallel beam with relatively low divergence. My thought was to use an aggressive beam expander to fan out...

Here is a picture of the portable co2 laser rifle http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g111/dmcclenon/download.jpg Here is a damage shot on a linksys router.... -1sec. bursts with no optics :) http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g111/dmcclenon/securedownload-3.jpg And heres a warning label that...

Hello all I am new to the thread but certainly NOT new to laser. I have just about every type of portable unit known to man from cni to soky. I also am the builder of the 50W co2 laser rifle.... Check out the pics below. I am regretably selling this unit. I would rather sell it to an...

i build things......... lots of dangerous lasers and other engineering projects :)