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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...

If that is the case, then they could use lasers as a form of long-distance communication ... or at least one way of doing it. :p Kind of like fiber and infrared connections. They could stream HD videos of Mars like this. :o

Yeah, I know none of you can provide pictures of this.. but... what would it be like to turn on a laser in space? How would the laser work? Or like.. would it go a farther distance? How would the photons behave differently (if at all)? :? Also, I have another question: in comparison to the...

Soo... death star... um Has anyone ever taken like, 1000 high powered laser pointers, bundled them together, and turned them all on at once? Any pictures of "thick" laser beams and stuff? :P (linear+thick; not something that drastically gets wider the farther away from the diode)

Will be sending the laser to daguin for repair. ;o

Yeah, well anyway, how would someone go about replacing the diode in this thing? It looks like the entire housing is one solid hunk of metal.. but let me guess: this is incorrect. (Ugh, of all the pictures I made, I never took any of the other side of the housing, and already reassembled it back...