Recent content by ZEOXEO

Those 520nm diodes look nice. Can I pump only 20mW with this diode? https://sites.google.com/site/dtrlpf/home/diodes/pl520-520nm-laser-diode

Hello all! I've been interested in lasers for quite some time, and feel I know more about them than the lay person, but alas, I know nowhere near enough to start my first build without some assistance on parts and what it will take to complete my project, so I'm looking for some insight into...

You're sort of contradicting yourself now from your OP, when you said you live near the airport & the planes came directly over your house to land - I assumed it was more than once every few hours. If you're out in the sticks but near an airport & there's hardly any air traffic then you dont...

Hmm, that kind of brings a whole new perspective on things. I live about 3-4 miles from the end of the runway.

I think if I show him this thread he will be mad at me :/

Lucky for me I live in montana, so there isn't a lot of air traffic. The north side of my house almost never has any planes, yet my dad has gotten to the point that he raises his voice and yells at me for using it outside. Is there any way to educate him on how un-reasonable he's being?

Most of the time I am using my 300mW 532 and sometimes a 15mW 532 or my 30mW 473. My 445 is actually only ~5mW. I have always thought that if i just keep it away from the general direction of the aircraft that it would be pretty hard to get in trouble.

So my dads idea that the police will get dispatched if a plane even sees a beam is completely unreasonable?

So, to start off I'm relatively new to laser pointers, i've only been collecting them since about december but already have a decent color selection (405, 445, 473, and 532) but I live near an airport and the planes coming in to land go nearly directly over my house at only 800-1000 feet...