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anthony5429
4.99mW Green Laser Toy
Joined: 12 Jun 2008
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 Posted: 6/12/08, 12:46 AM Post subject: 100mW Gree |
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| My coworker has a 125mW green laser he uses to point out stars in the sky at night. It's an amazing little pointer but I asked him how much he paid for it and he said it costs 1800 dollars! That's a bit more than I've got to spend but I'd love to have a similar laser pointer. I found the following a sale on ebay for a 100mW green laser with a Buy-it-now price of US$20 and shipping+insurance of about US$40. So the total is about US$60 for a 100mW green laser. I am new to the whole laser thing and so I was just wondering what you all thought about it... do you think it's really almost as strong as my coworker's, and for about a 20th the cost? Or is there a catch? |
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john lawson
25mW Classic Wicked Laser
Joined: 14 Jan 2008
Posts: 52
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| yea its probibly a piece of crap laser newish type 'remember you get what you pay for i have cni 100 and cni 95 both work great for me techlasers sell cni lasers by the way |
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CrazyKenny
Elite Laser
Joined: 03 May 2007
Posts: 146
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Location: Germany
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| Posted: 6/12/08, 2:25 PM Post subject: |
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My 50 mw laser from ebay is ~30 mw green and ~180 mw IR... there is no IR filter in it...
It's a newwish laser pointer from ebay... I think the 100mw is almost the same... maybe 60 mw green and 350 mw IR ^^
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green 3~8mw ebay laser
green 50mw ebay laser (mounted on telescope)
homemade DVD-Burner Laser (~120mW, divergence: 0.05 !)
RGY laserscanner (130mW red 60mW green) 
300mW green Laser module from ebay 
money spent on lasers: ~1800 $ (some are broken...) |
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fnugget
Elite Laser
Joined: 21 Jul 2005
Posts: 131
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| Posted: 6/12/08, 9:04 PM Post subject: further |
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| and to clarify, IR is infrared, invisible to the eye and thus is extra dangerous. it'll melt your retinas because you won't blink. it will also reflect off of somethings that are transparent in the visible range, so there might be no telling where that beam is going off of that glass window. |
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Jonazzaz
Wicked Lasers Master
Joined: 28 Nov 2007
Posts: 602
Location: Arendal / Norway
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Lets just say it easy: That laser has no IRfilter, then forget it! Whatever you do, dont buy it, you WILL get blind, or eyes will get damaged... 
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Bluefan
Fusion Laser
Joined: 20 Apr 2008
Posts: 299
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| Posted: 6/13/08, 2:17 AM Post subject: Re: furthe |
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| fnugget wrote: |
| and to clarify, IR is infrared, invisible to the eye and thus is extra dangerous. it'll melt your retinas because you won't blink. it will also reflect off of somethings that are transparent in the visible range, so there might be no telling where that beam is going off of that glass window. |
I have yet to find those things, as they would make nice IR filters.
Looking around with my IR camera, a lot of things are transparent to IR, but not to (parts of) visible light.
For example, I block my green laser with a piece of red acrylic, and the IR passes right through. This way I check my lasers for IR. |
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incinerator
Elite Laser
Joined: 05 Aug 2007
Posts: 207
Location: canada
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Bluefan
Fusion Laser
Joined: 20 Apr 2008
Posts: 299
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| Posted: 7/13/08, 3:43 PM Post subject: |
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Seriously?
I have one of those |
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incinerator
Elite Laser
Joined: 05 Aug 2007
Posts: 207
Location: canada
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Seriously?
I have one of those |
YES! but I don't think I'm allowed to make a link to the thread.
P.S. its nucking futs |
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myslinky
Fusion Laser
Joined: 01 Jan 2008
Posts: 269
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| Posted: 7/14/08, 2:32 AM Post subject: |
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| ebay lasers are known to be crappy, that's why they are so cheap! Because those lasers do not have an IR filter, the laser beam itself is not going to be as bright or as green. You'll end up paying 80 bucks and wish you didn't. then you'll spend a couple hundred more on another quality laser. Why don't you start off right, get a quality one off the bat and you'll save yourself 80 bucks! Ok, I don't know if anyone understood that... |
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yathern
Fusion Laser
Joined: 20 Aug 2006
Posts: 350
Location: Here, there.... Everywhere.
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| Posted: 7/14/08, 9:57 AM Post subject: |
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| myslinky wrote: |
| ebay lasers are known to be crappy, that's why they are so cheap! Because those lasers do not have an IR filter, the laser beam itself is not going to be as bright or as green. You'll end up paying 80 bucks and wish you didn't. then you'll spend a couple hundred more on another quality laser. Why don't you start off right, get a quality one off the bat and you'll save yourself 80 bucks! Ok, I don't know if anyone understood that... |
...I think I got that. But just remember. Almost always, you get what you pay for. If you see someone selling like... a 200mW laser for 40 bucks... somethings gotta be wrong. |
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Bluefan
Fusion Laser
Joined: 20 Apr 2008
Posts: 299
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| Posted: 7/15/08, 11:18 AM Post subject: |
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| Bluefan wrote: |
Seriously?
I have one of those |
YES! but I don't think I'm allowed to make a link to the thread.
P.S. its nucking futs |
To be honest: that would suck. We're talking about lasers, we're even on a forum! So, just post the link. We are here to share information, not to be on our own utopia.
I should get a laser power meter, so I can really measure what is going on. |
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