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Ive been showing a friend of mine some of my builds, and now he wants a 445nm. From what he told me, he would be very interested in mostly burning power, so I suppose the high powered nature of 445nm will provide the visability and burn needed. Since he was impressed with just 500mw smoking some stuff, I think that this power level will suffice. (Don't really matter to me on the power, I can set it to whatever I choose).
Now, I really didn't start this thread just to hear the usuall safety logorrhea regarding high powered lasers, "newbs" and saftey goggles. I have thoroughly warned him of the power and the concenquences.
Now what I wonder, seeing 445nm is the cheapest for me to build and achive decent burning power, is kinda to what output power to set it at.. Im personally thinking to the 200mw-500mw range, for two reasons.
1st. 500mw is plenty to burn once focused.
2nd. Lower power, longer duty cycle. This guy doesn't have the greatest knowledge on electronics, so I would like for this build to be at 100% use till the battery died. As not risk overheat failiure and other things.
So my two questions are, what is a good power level to set it at for this situation? 200mw? 500mw?
And for the low power, Im thinking to just stick to alkaline based batteries rather then our lithiums, seems safer to me to do so as high power isn't really needed and lithiums do present a hazard while charging unattended if recieved a bad or defective battery.
Thoughts?
Now, I really didn't start this thread just to hear the usuall safety logorrhea regarding high powered lasers, "newbs" and saftey goggles. I have thoroughly warned him of the power and the concenquences.
Now what I wonder, seeing 445nm is the cheapest for me to build and achive decent burning power, is kinda to what output power to set it at.. Im personally thinking to the 200mw-500mw range, for two reasons.
1st. 500mw is plenty to burn once focused.
2nd. Lower power, longer duty cycle. This guy doesn't have the greatest knowledge on electronics, so I would like for this build to be at 100% use till the battery died. As not risk overheat failiure and other things.
So my two questions are, what is a good power level to set it at for this situation? 200mw? 500mw?
And for the low power, Im thinking to just stick to alkaline based batteries rather then our lithiums, seems safer to me to do so as high power isn't really needed and lithiums do present a hazard while charging unattended if recieved a bad or defective battery.
Thoughts?
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