IR laser paper cut

IR laser from DVD burner cutting regular bond paper

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[rvs003]

If you understand what CCD or CMOS can pick up you'd know why it looks like a red laser.

BTW DVD burners has 2 lasers, IR for burning and reading CD and the very bright red laser for burning and reading DVDs.

[crazyshirtdude]

so which one of the lasers are the good ones? because i noticed mine has 2 lasers. a dim and a bright. one of them is junk?

[rvs003]

Booth are good, don't be fooled with the dim one. It's just as powerful and more dangerous as the bright one to cause damage to your eyes.

[FrigginSmift]

Timber!!

lol

[SerjTanKian20]

man in a few years there will videos on youtube on how to make real light sabers....

[Zenodilodon]

@crazyshirtdude The dim red one is IR you can't see 99% of the light emitted. It still has enough power to do quite alot though if you use it correctly.

[MrBeaste]

I wonder if you can use it to cut through metal bars. That would be useful

[stinkysnak7]

nice ;)

[TehMG]

Lasers in cd players are pretty weak. It has to be a burner.

I wouldn't recommend using IR lasers though, use a visible red laser from a DVD burner.

IR lasers are dangerous because your eyes can't see IR, so you can't tell you're looking into a laser beam until your retina is burnt right off and you go blind.

[beerpongmasterss]

You can't use the ir laser from a cdplayer? It has to be a burner?

[khonlaox]

thank you for this insight i have always ben trying this and it is true just as you say it is , and it is more dangerous because you can not see the near ir light

[Ibhien]

Cool... Where can I get that thing...??

[xenopeltismulticolor]

totally ninja

[crazyshirtdude]

so how do we use the small one. i wanna use the one that will allow me to use with Aixiz so i can test burning baloons. do i use the bright one or the dim one?