New Laser

[Cheerbones87]

I just got a Wicked Lasers 75mW Pheonix. And I'm wondering what cool this I can do with it. I read on there website that the cap set would let me burn things. I would wondering if there is a way to burn with out the cap set, and by cool things people can sugest to do to show of what it can do. How about examples of so of the things you did with your first laser.

 

[VillageIdiot]

Well, if you had asked me I would've said DON'T GET A WICKED LASER. But 75mW should be plenty to pop a balloon, light a match if you hold it steady...

Green lasers aren't for burning though. You get sick of burning. You can't get sick of that beautiful beam cutting through the fog.

 

[Cheerbones87]

Why would you say dontget a wicked laser? What is a better company?

 

[VillageIdiot]

By a great margin NOVAlasers and LaserGlow supply higher quality products and customer service.

 

[Cheerbones87]

Can this be for real? Http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.13446

 

[Antz_cro]

i know a cool way to make a laser stronger but it will heat up the diode ,

take apart the laser and you should find a circuit board.

on the circuit board there is a little phillips head insert where you can turn it anti-clockwise and clockwise,
to make the laser stronger turn it clockwise slightly and to make it weaker turn it anti-clockwise,

this is called a POT MOD , it controlls the voltage from the power supply to the diode.

NOTE : if you turn the voltge to high and the diode cant handle it , it will burn out , so dont turn it clockwise to the max.

 

[VillageIdiot]

The pot mod will only safely increase your lasers' power safely by about 10-20mW. Past that you run the risk of blowing the diode or over-saturating the crystals - there is no way to pot-mod a pointer to a burner. It's not a question of heat - you can only push a diode so far even if you had a 10kg 100% pure platinum heatsink or something crazy like that. The old 'leadlight' pointers could be modded from 5 to 50mW, because they were made with components capable of more than factory intended. Modern pointers are pushed to their limits from the factory to save money.

 

[eztune]

Can this be for real? Http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.13446

Yeah it for real....But low qaulity and dont know if it has a IR filter? I would spend the extra money and get a good green laser from a good company? So you dont end up buying a cheap one then spending more money to buy an other one wich if you add the cost together you could of bought one good one in the first place. Plus do some reading on here first. Just my addvice. Remeber ''you get what you pay for''.