how do i find out the range?

As you might know I have a X105.

on wickedlasers page I see that 95 mW and 125 mW have range above 50 miles.. is that the dot or? how can I see the dot in 50 miles!?! I can "only" see the beam for 5 km most(as I have tried) and i can't see if there is dot because the beam is always "in the way" (if you know what I mean(for longer distance than 2 km)) but what do they mean with these 50 miles?

ps. I'm not unsatisfied with my Nova product! and I know the X-105 is not from wickedlasers but in similar mW range.

I think it's just a matter of how much space you have. I think you will be able to see the light from these lasers for a limited distance because of the curvature of the world. The light just gets less and less focused as it travels farther and farther and gets reflected off of other objects(has to do with photons too or something to that effect). The light itself never actually stops so technically there is no range. Or you could call it infinity.

At 50 miles the width of the "dot" would be about the length of a football field. It may be a little dim.

chimo said:

At 50 miles the width of the "dot" would be about the length of a football field. It may be a little dim.

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thats what I was wondering about..

The range is calculated by withdrawing a number from deep inside the rectum. There is no such thing as laser range. The beam pretty much goes on forever. How far can you see it from? Well that depends, are you talking about looking straight into the beam from miles away, looking at the dot? the beam? How much ambient light? curvature of the earth? humidity in the air?

So yeah. Laser "range" is nearly as useful as a screen door on a submarine.

If you call Laserglow and ask what the "range" of a laser is, we will tell you that stating a range is misleading and shouldn't be a measure of laser quality. Everything Pseudo said is accurate, including the bit about the rectal-number-generator. This is a subjective measurement and figures like "50 miles" are abolutely rediculous. In space, photons from a laser will theoretically travel for an infinite distance, until it hits something or the Universe collapses in upon itself, whichever comes first. Does this mean the laser has a range of "infinity"? Of course not, beacuse it's not useful at this distance. "Useful range" depends on your application and can't be stated in firm numbers.

Oh we were talking about "useful range". In that case... :'(

I think Pseudo pretty well summed this all up. ;D
How far will a beam of light go ?? Ask a sun somewhere in the night sky. It goes forever or until it is absorbed by hitting something.

Mike

Hemlock Mike said:

I think Pseudo pretty well summed this all up. ;D
How far will a beam of light go ?? Ask a sun somewhere in the night sky. It goes forever or until it is absorbed by hitting something.

Mike

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So wait what did I say?

At a given point the beam is so much diverged that even when (part of it) hits an object the light  that is reflected back to the laser user is so weak that you can't see it with the naked eye.

I think the given distance should be the point at which the reflected light is still visible, but still there are  too many variables like the color of the object and weather conditions that it is indeed not a correct way to measure the lasers' quality

I did a small test once.
Pointing the laser at very high clouds and the beam didn't seem to reach them.
But when (say 600ft) away from the laser source I could see a large faint dot on these clouds, which cannot be seen by the operator of the Laser due to the bright beam.

But i'm curious if someone standing near a wall at 50miles from the Laser is able to see some light on this wall assuming its dark, the weather is clear and the wall is colored grey(concrete)