An Unsafe Laser Experiment!

Using Optotronics RPL (Level 3) to light Black Cat Bottle Rocket and Wolf Pack Firecracker. NEVER hold in your hand like this!

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Science & Technology

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• Optotronics
• RPL300
• Wolf
• Pack
• Phantom
• Fireworks
• Bottle
• Rocket
• DPSS
• Laser
• HD
• DVD
• BluRay

[mewrox99]

my 200mW red lights fuse faster and is about 10x cheaper

seriously for $900 you could get about 6 1000mW 445 lasers

[nordhavn57]

@mewrox99

Sure but none of those are 532nm lasers with 0.85nm divergence. ;)

I have 1.3W 445nm lasers and they are great for burning but terrible for beam quality / divergence.

The 10W DPSS (green) can do it all but is not very portable. ;)

[shizlnit]

why the fuck would anyone want to shell out $900 for a laser pointer that will burn a hole in your presentation?

[nordhavn57]

@shizlnit

It's not a laser pointer.  A laser pointer is <5mW. These are laser modules and cannot be used without adequate eye protection.

[AlexZandero]

@nordhavn57 Thats not true, Lasers from Illumi dot no has IR filters, and I know that other lasers for instance Dragonlasers also use IR filters so you dont need safety googles, and even if you do get hit with the beam using safety googles the effect is the same.

How do i know this?

Because I have a 250mw Focusable laser and I can still perfectly.

So its not a "must" to use safety googles, but ofc some lasers like urs perhaps dont have IR filter.

[nordhavn57]

@AlexZandero

All my lasers have proper IR filters. It's a cost cutting measure. You get what you pay for. Whether a laser has an IR filter or not should NEVER be the determining factor whether or not one wears eye protection. All it takes is one slip up with your 250mw laser and you can possibly alter (damage) your vision permanently for life. Glasses are not that expensive. Even if you were Bill Gates you could not buy another set of eyeballs. ;)

[forwardbias]

I wear eye protection, because the beam of my laser outputs 1,100mW, which can even burn walls and white paper, just after a second of exposure to the beam, even if its the same size as a regular laser pointer dot, and not super concentrated. Light going into the eye is concentrated on the retina by a factor of 10. Just because a laser has an IR filter, need protection, even if its just 30mW, know of a case, someone got a direct reflected beam strike to the eye, and it caused perminant damage.

[TuBFMagier]

i have a laser with 1 watt for only 160 euro that is a really amazin laser

[Autodog652]

Where does it say he spent $900

[JD8853]

nice thought to take a soundtrack from, the shining. ;)

[JD8853]

nice thought to take a soundtrack from the shining. ;)

[madarauchiha1218]

i just have a 10 watt laser that took me about 11 months to build....it has INSULATION WOOOT 

[bitcompte]

It's so intense!

[BigBlue1101]

1:15

DON'T CROSS THE STREAMS

[SploogeSniper]

Is it just me or does anyone else see the second laser at the end. HAX!!!!