Argon laser doing 2 watts

[MrMegaBouke]

the laser is 1.5 watt. see 0:21 sec. ; )

[sonicxlc123]

wat kind of audio that? lol

[thallium200]

Video is old but you can see the beam is split into blue and green. The optic is not oriented/rotated enough to extract the pure 488nm blue. Or the camera cannot captur the blue. It looks all green.

[Stoney3K]

Spectra 2000 series?

[scottedwardchapman]

That's pretty cool. Great job.

[amiga2000]

Yeah, that's some serious sh!t in this video. Although handheld lasers can get pretty powerful too. Here's a video showing how to hack a 200mw to burn much higher "Hack your 200mw laser to burn like a 500mw".

[douglas787]

I know this is a dumb question but if that were to hit you in the eye would you go blind? 2 watts seems like a lot of power considering that most pointers are less that 50 mW.

[DiachiLaser]

Yeah. Class 4 - can burn skin, wood, paper, retinas. Just about anything. It would instantly blind you. Most pointers might be less than 50mW, but this is no pointer. It's an argon laser, needs either single phase at 32A or 3 phase at 32A per phase depending on which model it is.

[telmnstr]

@douglas787 Yep. Don't tell anyone, but the video is a bit of a hack. It was two galvos doing X axis only, so it couldn't go down any. And the scan angle was about 10 degrees wide. I was holding the camcorder up into the light, after having established all of the beam paths ahead of time and blocking it so if anything dropped lower it'd be clipped.

[vintagelightman03]

@douglas787 Your eye reaction would typically be much quicker but you would definately see spots for quite some. But would not lose vision unless you looked at it much longer than your eyes would allow.

[paul30003]

@vintagelightman03

Even at 500mw a blink reaction would not stop a direct beam from burning your retina and causing blindness.

[iPlaymeta1]

@vintagelightman03 expect istant retnal damage from anything over 100mW. i have a 1000mW 445nm homebuilt maglite. I always wear protective eyewear.

[louisthemaster]

0:22 it says 1.5 watt :s

[FutureIsDoomed]

can i eat the laser beam?

[do0mwiebr0t]

good question, it looks delicious P:

[FutureIsDoomed]

lol i bet it tastes like blue berry

[betiuxyricky]

@FutureIsDoomed yes you can

[DiachiLaser]

It's 15W

[DiachiLaser]

I think the laser here is a Spectra Physics 2011, I'll check up on that later though .

[tinramm]

it's a rave!

[backstabingliar]

Nice. Stabilite 2017?

[djrunamuck]

little group called THE BEASTIE BOYS! there was a time when everyone would have known that, man do i feel old.  awesome laser.

[gvsfgdf]

your not too old man im almost half your age ;)

[DiachiLaser]

Schweeet , what model is the laser ? Must be using some crazy current to be doing 2W !

[OUTSIDER01]

0:36 the trumpet sounds so funny or whatever this is XD

[therapyskateboards]

well said lexi!! idiots.

[lexichronicle]

a lot of you obviously have no idea what you're talking about. read some laser theory and understand how they produce different wavelengths before giving anymore advice on wattage and price

[mercanaries3]

no its because ppl are stupid they cant make lasers they make shitty 1s we need good 1s that can cut anything and is in a shape of a pen well i guess they r not smart enough oh well but they can make nukes that can destroy a country wat?

[Xxero0]

Lasers are a litlle... um... compactably challenged as of now.

[mercanaries3]

why.

is it because of bush?

[Xxero0]

YES! Lets blame Bush! Chances are he fucked this up too...

[mercanaries3]

yup

[DiachiLaser]

Whats this music ?

[arcticmatts]

Beasty Boys

Stand together!

[DiachiLaser]

Nice show, could also get the same effect from an RGB scanner.

[mercanaries3]

no no dude mw millie watt is not worth anything its worth cents we have light bulbs that burn 50k watts and they sell that for 62dollars so laser is just basically concentrated light beam that they make easily but they sell for more

[mercanaries3]

hey can i ask u another question? how come sites are selling a 1 watt laser for 2,200 dollars and a 400mw green laser for 5,600dollars?

[LRMNmeyer]

I know this is an old comment, but green light is MUCH harder to produce, because you need a powerful IR diode and to focus the IR through crystals, which do not convert all of the IR into green light, because alot of IR just flows through the crystals, and must be filtered. And laser light is coherent, which is much different than focused light. And the reason China made lasers are so cheap is because they are extremely low quality and often lack IR filters, so in a 1W, ~500mW IR, 500mW green.

[mercanaries3]

k then

[mercanaries3]

u still havent anwsered my question i know that its a gas but what is argon what is it used for

[normellow]

Its used for argon lasers !! lol I think its used in medical applications and some type of welding application .

[mercanaries3]

what is argon

[normellow]

argon gas

[Xxero0]

argon is a noble gas that glows a very bright blue when the atoms are excited. 1% of the air you breath is argon, and it is used in neon signs and apparently lasers.

[FrigginSmift]

incredibly bright blue beam, very cool

[dj25sent]

whats the name of that song?

[normellow]

Its on the beastie boys - ''Check your head'' album

[saturn1returns]

Thats a corker of a laser - but i'm sure they no longer make them, is it not just those shitty iode ones now?

[SergioMarcio1]

this is fantastic!=)

[roblox84]

they have a laser like this at a nightclub near me. and those fucks installed it so it shined onto the floor and it nearly blinded me. i saw stars in my eyes for like a day

[C0MPUT3Rh4CK3R]

ha ha free laser eye surgery, they use argon for that aswell

[saturn1returns]

wimp - another nanny case - health and safety gumftruffle. Lasers have been used for decades in raves/concerts- 15years ago you should've seen the thing they used at the raves we went to and no-one complained - outstanding effect so it was. I've never known anyone to be 'hurt' from them unless you are a total fucking twit.

[theboarder410]

because they are nearly always working properly... anything beyond ~30 mw should have a plethora of safety features if you value your eyesight... these ones for instance need to have a safety interlock in case the scanning mechanism fails, even a fraction of a second on your eye and this laser will blind you. I have a 200 mw red laser and it hurts tanned skin. 2 watts will burn you no problem.

[roblox84]

shit i can't wait till they come out with a pocket laser like this. I can then burn peoples tires out at the intersection from my building

[tenshinghan]

where i can buy one of those?

[H0rizon1]

is it actally safe to have these if they can damage your eyes?

[someonehasthisid]

Cool!

[normellow]

Nice laser , check mine out.!!!!

[Templemain]

Guys, I've read all your comments. Pity it is that none of you realize just what lasers can do in Life sciences, ANA, astronomy, surgery. This technology can SAVE your life, not just your disco. May I encourage you to check it out, search the web.

[clampmaster]

now thats a badass setup!

[jungletekno]

Thats a great at home disco. I'd like to get 4 trackspots or technobeams soon to go with the rest of my martin scanners. A green laser would be cool too but ones that are over .5 MW are very expensive (and .5mw is too dim). The one you have is actually way the heck too bright for me but I guess that suits you.

[phazonxl]

I'm sure that the lasers are place far above eye level to ensure that no one goes blind

[stevenlap]

That would be great for killing starlings with, or blind them

[lokourah]

i wont go to your crib or i will end wit no head!!

[hightechstuff2]

Woah dude! Don't invite guests over unless you have enough goggles to pass around! Cool though. Be safe.

[pmgodfrey]

-companhiadaluz- stop posting this crap to every video with a laser in it. Even if I lived in your region I wouldn't hire you now because you spam every video with your contact info.

[Nutter1138]

Nope, beam profiles of most LD are pretty sucky.

[RoadRunnerLaser]

Smart show !!! Can I have some new eyeballs, please ?

[telmnstr]

It's actually not a show, it's bits and pieces spliced together, roughly timed to the music. The real video isn't exciting. I never had good enough software or hardware to do much more, as the PCAOM units run about $3K USD. Now that I have galvos, I have no place to run the argon system. Really need a place with at least 16' minimum ceiling height and termination spots 4' from any human reachable place to run in public.

[RoadRunnerLaser]

(Tut.. Hands on hips...)

Smart pieces spliced together, then... Either way... Great to watch, even if it was an edit-job.

[telmnstr]

Thanks! I actually have more parts now to do better things, but don't have the space to set up the big laser. Diode based hardware is taking over so rapidly it isn't funny. And low cost from China.

[RoadRunnerLaser]

I agree, but I think that DPSS and gas will be superior for many years. Okay, for some applications, diodes are fine, (CD/DVD players etc... Ever seen the size of the old HeNe based Laserdisc players ?) but generally they just don't have the beam profile of a good argon-ion, HeNe or even a decent DPSS, do they ?

[Ham549]

now try the fun stuff see what you can burn

[pmgodfrey]

-Ham549- It's cheaper to light stuff on fire with a match than run a three phase water cooled laser tube for that. But at 2000mW it should burn just about anything, including skin........at several hundred feet. This will do instant and permanent, irreversible damage to your eyes with specular reflection alone.

[techforumz]

you could blast right through almost anything with that!!!

[mylife4adew]

sweet

[NordSporter]

Amazing but fucking dangerous as well!

[telmnstr]

Yep, it was setup running at very low power (perhaps 10mw) then once the paths were setup, I turned up the power for the video. There is a dicro filter that is splitting the green and blue lines, then each is fed into galvos. I used X only for both green and blue (fed from what would be X+Y on laser illusions), and there was stuff stacked in front so the beam couldn't go lower forward.

[Milkmadness]

hahaha

[wormfighter]

Add some hidden disco-ball targets and you have some rad eye-burning fun!