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Yes you want to wear laser safety glasses to protect your eyes from the wavelength you are working with, I have had good results with survival lasers Eagle Pair glasses for use with 445-455nm blue lasers.
That said there was some issue to do with a gap in protection around 488nm IINM, but I expect that's been resolved, even if not the glasses I linked in blue ( click the blue text ) are good for the 1w-7w blue lasers in 445-455nm, I expect that's similar to what you bought.
Here's a video of someone lighting a campfire, you may want more than a 1w MM blue if you want to get more distance, also the 3X beam expander will help.
If you want more than the 1w Gattling you bought, maybe check with Lifetime17 and see what he has.
With a 5W NDB7A75 w/G8 lens and a 3X beam expander you can light a brown paper bag stuffed with newspaper a lot easier to start your bonfire than trying to hit a match head. As always be safe and never let a laser beam strike any people or vehicles, sorry I have to keep saying that but other people read these posts and some need to hear it an extra time or two, it could make a difference.![Wink ;) ;)](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png)
That said there was some issue to do with a gap in protection around 488nm IINM, but I expect that's been resolved, even if not the glasses I linked in blue ( click the blue text ) are good for the 1w-7w blue lasers in 445-455nm, I expect that's similar to what you bought.
Here's a video of someone lighting a campfire, you may want more than a 1w MM blue if you want to get more distance, also the 3X beam expander will help.
If you want more than the 1w Gattling you bought, maybe check with Lifetime17 and see what he has.
With a 5W NDB7A75 w/G8 lens and a 3X beam expander you can light a brown paper bag stuffed with newspaper a lot easier to start your bonfire than trying to hit a match head. As always be safe and never let a laser beam strike any people or vehicles, sorry I have to keep saying that but other people read these posts and some need to hear it an extra time or two, it could make a difference.
![Wink ;) ;)](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png)
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