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Laptop cd player laser?

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I have an old rostar laptop not sure what year it is but it has windows 95 on it. I was wondering if I could make a burnig red laser out of the cd driver. How many ma could I give it?
 





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A cd player is probably <5mW 780nm IR, it would be basically useless as anything... AND since it's from a laptop, it's probably some strange tiny diode...
 

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It'll be a 5mW square shaped 780nm NIR diode, pretty useless. :(
 





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