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Re: Questions about powerful lasers Maybe I'll make that a long-term goal. That's ultimately what I'd love to have out of it, essentially an unending source of heat strong enough to ignite brush or leaves. I have a lot of hand-crank accessories, so I think that would work out pretty well...

Re: Questions about powerful lasers Well, I'd have a loooot of reading to do. Again, I don't know diddly about wiring things together, especially in a way that won't make things melt down. Along with all the components of the laser, I need to wire in a usb to a battery and make sure that...

Re: Questions about powerful lasers I also like creating things, I just wish the result wasn't just, you know, a laser. At least that KipKay butane lighter mod was cool, it was just a bit dangerous to be, you know, poking into peoples faces to light cigarettes. If I could rig up one to be...

Re: Questions about powerful lasers I believe some reviewer said so, but then, he may not have been using it on high. I don't know. In any case, I don't think I'd ever start out with more than a weaker laser, enough to produce some cool beams. Those have to be far less expensive and less...

Re: Questions about powerful lasers Well, right now, I am. But like I said in my original post, I really wanted it for lighting stuff on fire from afar. I can see decent potential in setting up a rig for fireworks such as positioning a match at the end of a fuse, then lighting it from a safe...

Re: Questions about powerful lasers I haven't actually read up on what "nm" is but I'm assuming that's the wavelength of a laser, which also determines the color of the laser. If that's the case, finding a pair of goggles that blocks both would be relatively easy I would think, which is good...

Re: Questions about powerful lasers Is that small amount of IR light so small that it's irrelevant (I'm assuming it would vary anyways)? Do goggles that block a color that also emits IR light block that IR light as well, or is there a separate defense for that? I think it's pretty safe to say...

Re: Questions about powerful lasers Thanks for the helpful post. I agree with everything, a laser capable of burning things is too much power for me to handle from the get-go, and I need to have a better grasp of what I'm handling before I move up to something powerful. If my understanding is...

Re: Questions about powerful lasers Sounds like my kind of laser goggles. Question is... can you see through them? :P Truthfully that thread probably scared me a bit too much. I'm sure the lot of you secure your lasers in a sturdy clamp, check for reflective surfaces, make sure there are no...

Re: Questions about powerful lasers I just don't trust myself with one. Of course I wouldn't dare use the thing without the glasses on, but I can't think of a single use of it that is worth the risk of there being an even slight possibility that it would bounce into a naked eye. Apparently you...

Re: Questions about powerful lasers SCREW. THAT. After reading that, it's game over. I'm not touching lasers, and you people are crazy for using them! From now on, to me, any laser that is 5mW< is a gun, end of discussion. There were people in that thread saying a 9mW grazing is serious eye...

Re: Questions about powerful lasers Yeah, that all sounds cool, but chances are a beam is eventually going to find its way across my eye unless I stay paranoid about what I shine it on, and if I'm going to singe the hairs off the back of a spider, a spider which will immediately scramble upon...

Re: Questions about powerful lasers I wasn't sure exactly how serious it was with goggles on. Now I think I'll be afraid to touch a 1W laser anytime soon. I just don't get how you could have fun with that much power if it's so easy to wreck your eyeballs with a casual graze. Seems like this...

Re: Questions about powerful lasers Yeah, I hear IR lasers can not only damage your eye, but is completely invisible to the naked eye. What do you think the best thing to do is if a laser accidentally bounces off of something and hits you in the eye through an adequate set of goggles? Should...

Re: Questions about powerful lasers I'm assuming that's a joke, but just in case... I saw a video of that flashlight burning out in seconds of its first use, and that light is far too wide. I don't want to shower my enemies with heat, I want to burn a small hole through them, and from as far...

First off, I'm new to these forums and to lasers. I've been researching them after seeing a KipKay video (about 18 hours ago, mind you) that showed a man building a cheap laser from scratch that was powerful enough to light things on fire at close range. I thought that was pretty cool, and went...