Apr 6, 2013 #1 D DanGeRoUs98 0 Joined May 20, 2012 Messages 36 Points 6 How Many milliWatts are needed to burn a match or pop balloons?
Apr 6, 2013 #2 Zeebit 0 Joined Aug 27, 2012 Messages 1,110 Points 0 At least around 50mW of focused light.
Apr 6, 2013 #3 Hemlock_Mike 0 Joined Jan 7, 2007 Messages 6,309 Points 83 You can use a magnifing lens to make it work too. Been done before. HMike
Apr 6, 2013 #4 Bionic-Badger 0 Joined Oct 26, 2007 Messages 5,438 Points 83 It's just so lame having to use a magnifying lens to pop something as mundane as a balloon with a laser. Might as well just use sunlight.
It's just so lame having to use a magnifying lens to pop something as mundane as a balloon with a laser. Might as well just use sunlight.
Apr 6, 2013 #5 hwang21 0 Joined Mar 27, 2013 Messages 2,416 Points 63 Well you can probably reliably light matches and pop balloons with 100mW of power, I can pop balloons with 53mW of light unfocused but it has a really small (initial) beam diameter, soooo...
Well you can probably reliably light matches and pop balloons with 100mW of power, I can pop balloons with 53mW of light unfocused but it has a really small (initial) beam diameter, soooo...