Yea, Robert E Iannini is pretty amazing, my SSTC plan came from one of his books, Build Your Own Laser, Phaser, Ion Ray Gun and Other Working Space Age Projects, he has a few others, most of the plans on his site can be found in his various books.
Lithium Iron Phosphate is extremely safe compared to Lithium Polymer and Lithium Ion. The LiFePO4 cells will take abuse and not catastrophically fail like it's relatives.
Re: Laser gun fires like gun, not like a HPL made into a gun
Goggles aside, nice build and cool effect. How did you modulate the output, is it a complete home built driver or are you using a circuit to pulse input power to a standard driver?
I happened into a number of the smaller ones a few years back, the radiation output is very low, barely measurable with a 6993 tube Geiger counter. I'm sure they would register much better with pancake style thin mica window probe.
Yes, brainstorming with lasers is fun, but apparently you did not look around very much here before posting. A fair amount of the ire here is directed at those who play fast and loose with laser safety. You pop in and ask about the feasibility of purposefully blinding people (even bad guys)...
Flash grenades not good enough? I'm all for helping our soldiers, but why over complicate something that already exists and is considerably more rugged and less expensive in its current incarnation.
I once took a nasty hit from that neon sign transformer, it knocked me out and i woke up about ten feet back from where I started. I was making an adjustment on the transformer when I slipped and grasped down on the wired remote switch turning on the 120v input to the transformer, i was hit by...