First of all, let me say I'm not a laser guy, I've never really been fond of them or cared to own one. However, for some reason a friend just brought me back a green laser from Egypt, which they paid £20 for, so quite cheap, thus maybe weak.
Anyhow, they said go ahead and try it in the garden, as "it's cool, you can see the beam quite far". So I thought okay then and proceeded to point it about 20 meters across my garden onto a wall (I know not to shine them into the sky just in case). I thought it was cool but nothing spectacular.
When I got back inside my room (black wallpaper) I tried it on the walls about 5-6ft away, as it had this star like filter you could put over the lens to make it a light show vs a point. That didn't seem overlay bright or anything, then I tried it with just the point, again, not overlay bright, but instinct was saying don't stare at the dot, but of course I looked at it on the wall.
Then the friend said it could burn things, so he took it of me and tried to set a piece of printer paper on fire, which it didn't catch and I just laughed at him, although you could feel the slightest of warmth. Then I realised he was shining that thing about 2-3 away from our heads at the paper, wouldn't that be really dangerous on white paper at that range?
Finally, when I was messing with it on my wall earlier, the point did hit a metal soda can a few times, although I didn't realise that could be really dangerous until I tried to find the power of this laser online, and had no luck.
Here are the images of it, doesn't even have a warning label attached anywhere:
To test how strong it was, I pointed the laser directly into the old camera lens that took the photos for around 10 seconds (obviously shield my face and eyes completely at this point) just to see what damage it would do and maybe gauge the power, the only damage I see is the little blue/purple squiggly line you can see in the pictures.
I ended up giving it back and saying thanks, but I wouldn't use it as it is and beyond that it's very dangerous without goggles which I don't have anyway.
I didn't receive any after images, dots or anything like that, but I'm still paranoid and I bet you get loads of these posts on here all the time. I'm 25 but have had some minor floaters in my eyes since I was around 18, which my eye check-ups have said are harmless.
Coincidentally, I have my neck check-up in 12 days from now, should I mention this to them when I go, or even inform them of this beforehand?
Lastly, how strong would this laser have been?
Cheers
Anyhow, they said go ahead and try it in the garden, as "it's cool, you can see the beam quite far". So I thought okay then and proceeded to point it about 20 meters across my garden onto a wall (I know not to shine them into the sky just in case). I thought it was cool but nothing spectacular.
When I got back inside my room (black wallpaper) I tried it on the walls about 5-6ft away, as it had this star like filter you could put over the lens to make it a light show vs a point. That didn't seem overlay bright or anything, then I tried it with just the point, again, not overlay bright, but instinct was saying don't stare at the dot, but of course I looked at it on the wall.
Then the friend said it could burn things, so he took it of me and tried to set a piece of printer paper on fire, which it didn't catch and I just laughed at him, although you could feel the slightest of warmth. Then I realised he was shining that thing about 2-3 away from our heads at the paper, wouldn't that be really dangerous on white paper at that range?
Finally, when I was messing with it on my wall earlier, the point did hit a metal soda can a few times, although I didn't realise that could be really dangerous until I tried to find the power of this laser online, and had no luck.
Here are the images of it, doesn't even have a warning label attached anywhere:
To test how strong it was, I pointed the laser directly into the old camera lens that took the photos for around 10 seconds (obviously shield my face and eyes completely at this point) just to see what damage it would do and maybe gauge the power, the only damage I see is the little blue/purple squiggly line you can see in the pictures.
I ended up giving it back and saying thanks, but I wouldn't use it as it is and beyond that it's very dangerous without goggles which I don't have anyway.
I didn't receive any after images, dots or anything like that, but I'm still paranoid and I bet you get loads of these posts on here all the time. I'm 25 but have had some minor floaters in my eyes since I was around 18, which my eye check-ups have said are harmless.
Coincidentally, I have my neck check-up in 12 days from now, should I mention this to them when I go, or even inform them of this beforehand?
Lastly, how strong would this laser have been?
Cheers
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