No, no, Fûz! The laser you buy is 5mW, but you only buy it for the housing. The laser you take out of the DVD burner is FAR more powerful. About 200mW, as I understand it.
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I forsee a rash of DVD burner buying in Merry Old England, heh.
Soldering isn't for the faint of heart?
Sheesh ...
personally, I prefer neclacing the speed cameras, at least that sends the right message to the powers that be.
a bunch of pics here
http://www.speedcam.co.uk/gatso2.htm
FIVE MILLIWATTS?
that's serious power from a solid state laser. Had I known . . .
wonder, how long it would take for that laser to ignite paper at less than cm away?
Gotta go experiment.
No, no, Fûz! The laser you buy is 5mW, but you only buy it for the housing. The laser you take out of the DVD burner is FAR more powerful. About 200mW, as I understand it.
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