Its very greeeeeeeeen

[rszemeti]

thats the thing ... Old Skool electronics ..w ell, you actually get a feel that what you are looking at is somethign amazing ... youcan see the tube, the magnet assembly .. the brewster windows .. the PSU has a huge bank of series pass transistors etc.

You just don't get that fun with a glorified LED.

[dsli_jon]

...Old Skool electronics ..you actually get a feel that what you are looking at is somethign amazing ...

..Ya know - I *knew* there had to be some way we could be friends... ..'course, you're still entitled to tell me to go piss up a rope, which is fine, too...

.. the PSU has a huge bank of series pass transistors etc.

Indeed... 'lil present for ya:



cheers...
j

[resonator]

and now IGBT'S

[gashead]

cheers...
j

Watch out!!!

He'll try and sell it to you, and with the prices he can get on International shipping & Insurance you'll have a hard time saying no.. infact it will take your wife buying a new car and kicking you in the balls to stop you.

You've been warned.

[Roy G. Biv]

Someone hit in the eye with a 1 W blue laser.

http://www.laserpointersafety.com/ne...97e677-206.php

http://laserpointerforums.com/f53/hi...ser-69469.html

[steve-o]

It's amazing that he said that he looked directly into the beam for 1 second before looking away or blink ..
Glad the surgery went ok and he's going to partially have sight in that eye .

[norty303]

I doubt it was one second, as it was falling according to his description. Long enough to damage it seems though.

[GT500]

Nasty....A high price to pay for a liquid sky.

[White-Light]

Yeah. Would i be right in saying that pointers are unmodulated as output? (i would have thought so but I know little of the way pointers operate).

If so that would go some way to explaining it as well. I'm not in any way lessening the danger from a modulated beam as you will have seen from my postings above, but in my experience at home with a piece of wood, an unmodulated beam is an order of danger far higher than a beam that is being modulated.

A modulated beam won't generally burn the wood in the powers I'm running although it can feel warm to touch on the hand / fingers and thus hot enough to burn eyes. An unmodulated beam however, causes the damage to the wood I posted above - literally less than 1 sec and the wood is burning. I wouldn't fancy anyone's eyes for even a millisecond under those conditions.

[Doc]

You must remember this from a post originally on LPF (now removed) caused by an 800mW 445, apparently he didn't feel anything at the time.