Ok, to start with I never… ever wanted a laser. I’ve got one on my duty weapon as part of the light system but other than that they just seemed like toys.
Then my son brought one home from some street vender in Taiwan while he was overseas with an adjustable lens; the kind that looks like a colidascope when turned. Then he took off the colidascope lens and I could not believe the brightness of this $6.00 green laser. The label read that it was <300mW according the warning sticker.
After a quick internet search I found that lasers over 200mW are capeable of lighting matches. This laser wouldn’t light a match, melt plastic, or pop balloons. Too late… I was hooked.
Then my son brought one home from some street vender in Taiwan while he was overseas with an adjustable lens; the kind that looks like a colidascope when turned. Then he took off the colidascope lens and I could not believe the brightness of this $6.00 green laser. The label read that it was <300mW according the warning sticker.
After a quick internet search I found that lasers over 200mW are capeable of lighting matches. This laser wouldn’t light a match, melt plastic, or pop balloons. Too late… I was hooked.