What are these?

[Lasernerd]

some weird things I picked up today?
the batt. is for size

[shrad]

is it a glass fiber?

perhaps a CO2 or really high power laser fiber coupler?

is there any optics in the heatsing assembly?

[mixedgas]

175 watt or 300 watt high pressure cermax lamp assembly WITH fiber

CAUTION< FILLED WITH XENON AT VERY HIGH PRESSURE< WEAR FACE PLATE/GLOVES WHEN HANDLING/USING.

DO NOT OPERATE WITHOUT COOLING. YES I AM SHOUTING. I USED TO USE THOSE IN THE LAB, 6 of THEM.

PRODUCES EXTEREMLY BRIGHT UV AND IR IF NOT FILTERED>

NOT A TOY! CAN BLIND YOU IF YOU GET THE THING CLOSE TO YOUR FACE

48 psi internal pressure cold, God and ILC Div PE only knows how high when running. NOT A TOY!
While much safer then quartz lamps, if not filtered can fry tissue.

Arguably one of the highest irradiance light sources on the planet.

That size is a .65 mm arc gap with built in precision ellipsoid or parabolic reflector for focusing into the fiber. Some have a blue dental curing filter built in, others are for in body illumination when they have that fiber assembly bolted to them.

Steve

[Lasernerd]

Thank you Steve!

I am wrapping it up and putting it away,,

Again thank you Steve!

[shrad]

wow frightening suntan-tatoo jackhammer here!

why is not Belgium a place where you can find unique items too? I wish I lived in california or any other technological place in US

[heroic]

wow frightening suntan-tatoo jackhammer here!

why is not Belgium a place where you can find unique items too? I wish I lived in california or any other technological place in US

Thank the gods that you do not have to deal with the FDA.

[shrad]

and that I have good beers under my hand, and (not so anymore) cheap housing, I know, but this kind of stuff always make me think about the opportunity you guys have

as I'm a tech-bulimic person, sometimes I dream of quitting and go somewhere to live of my scavengings, and open a surplus store of some sort ^^

[mixedgas]

Lets put it this way, if we did not have lasers we'd all want cermax lamps, closest thing to a incoherent laser, and plenty of visible light as well.

Yes, you can burn stuff with them, and they are fairly common, used for things like movie projectors,studio photography, DMD stuff, tank headlights, instruments, mega strobes, special effects, plant growth etc. They come in sizes to 4,000 watts. If you've seen a picture taken inside the human body, odds are the source was a cermax with that big fiber, BTW the fiber is a add on, not part of the lamp. 6200 K color temperature.

One of my former students had the misconception that laser safey goggles would stand up to a filtered cermax, they did, for a few minutes, then he melted a hole in a 400$ pair of goggles.

Beg to me, and I mean really Beg and Grovel,, and I might bring one to Selem.... One 300 watt cermax WILL light up that auditorium.


My bet is there is used technology in Belge.... You just don't know where to look, yet.....

Find some ham radio operators, they will know where to look.....

Steve

[keeperx]

One 300 watt cermax WILL light up that auditorium.

Steve

Prove it

[Lasernerd]

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