Oh don’t worry, the constant reminder from my last project that I mentioned in my question was from when I decided to build a high power railgun with absolutely no electrical engineering experience. When I was trying to setup my capacitor bank for prof of concept tests, I didn’t realize that...
Ok, first off I'm just going put this out there, as it says in the thread, I am completely and totally new to the world of lasers. That being said, I know that what I am doing is ridiculously stupid and dangerous, but that's why I came here, to make my stupid project slight less dangerous for me...