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How Many milliWatts are needed to burn a match or pop balloons?
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How Many milliWatts (?)
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At least around 50mW of focused light.
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You can use a magnifing lens to make it work too.
Been done before.
HMike
Been done before.
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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.
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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...