You are welcome! I want to add something that for most of people can appear as "a bulls***", but im for my own opinion as everybody has a different opinion, and i think that laser pointers over 500 mw of power should be treat as weapons.
I don't know where you exactly came from, but most of USA States allows weapons even they are not closed with a bolt in a closet and even a guy as 16 years old can already receive the first rifle (but i guess not everywere is like that). But in my country (Italy), we are forced to seal our unloaded weapons inside gun cabinets (far to the people under age 18), the ammunition should be far away to each weapon and you should be the only one that knows where is the kay for open those cabinets, and its for you severly proebited to share this informations to everybody (strangers, friends, parents).
All those restrictions from law has different reasons:
1) It's not allowed for you to shoot a person with armored ammunition (except for save your life), expecially in extreme situations when you get in danger you can never know what will be your reaction and there is the risk that you can shoot someone even if it was not necessary, or much worst you can kill someone else. You know that once you push the trigger, a life could finish forever.
2)The time before act! Means once you get a weapon, you have to use it, because weapons are used for shoot only! and you have a lot of time before decide if its really necessary or not.
3)General safety! Just an exemple, once you are on toilet your kid get your weapon and he can accidentaly hurt himself or others.. Thats easy to guess.
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Sorry for this long exemple, but its just for remind you what is the real "Safety (as you called)", it's not only your glasses as you said, but its much more about the actions that you can do, your temperament, attitude, and its only up to you, (for exemple if you are a calm person then you can use lasers as you can buy weapons, i can't see the problem). If you like lasers in general i can't see the problem why you ask if you can make it. (of course you can!). We can just recomand things but no body online knows for certain which is the true reason. Its just about trust.. Anyway for lasers its almost the same. They wont kill as weapons but as you said they can cause blindness, burns on skin and fires (included all the accidents that can cause if you accidentaly turn the beam against means of transport, like airplanes). So the danger (even not compared to real weapons) is there!
SUGGESTIONS=
1)You asked the safety, now i can suggest you compare "lasers as weapons" and your "batteries as ammunition, and you wont have any problem!
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2) Sorry for everybody that get lasers as fun, but i'm not agree. Because i can get a fun on watch also a 5 mw greeen laser pointer just for notice the beam during night on the sky. No need to pass on 1W laser. So if you want this type of laser its a certain that you want power and for sure it's not just a fun. Or maybe it's funny for you to burn things
. is it really a big deal for you? Is usefull what you are making?
3) I can play with my dog and also my friend cats with a laser pointer 5mw, and i can not do it if i use 1W. So you are everytime limited on something when you talk about lasers. In my last post i was asking for a powerfull green laser just because i like the green colour (that for my lucky is also more visible) and expecially because i do some work about engraving. So it will be very helpfull for me to use when im not at my office, means i just try to find more reasons before make a powerfull laser like that.
4) Treat your laser as your luxury car and they will endure more... Just like when you press the accelerator too long. You have fun, you go faster, but you consume everything first (in case of the laser as someone said, more power = most effective heatsink). But the time stop is the key for keep your laser life longer.
For the rest i guess we all gave you enought informations and for sure you will be a good laser builder.
I don't know where you exactly came from, but most of USA States allows weapons even they are not closed with a bolt in a closet and even a guy as 16 years old can already receive the first rifle (but i guess not everywere is like that). But in my country (Italy), we are forced to seal our unloaded weapons inside gun cabinets (far to the people under age 18), the ammunition should be far away to each weapon and you should be the only one that knows where is the kay for open those cabinets, and its for you severly proebited to share this informations to everybody (strangers, friends, parents).
All those restrictions from law has different reasons:
1) It's not allowed for you to shoot a person with armored ammunition (except for save your life), expecially in extreme situations when you get in danger you can never know what will be your reaction and there is the risk that you can shoot someone even if it was not necessary, or much worst you can kill someone else. You know that once you push the trigger, a life could finish forever.
2)The time before act! Means once you get a weapon, you have to use it, because weapons are used for shoot only! and you have a lot of time before decide if its really necessary or not.
3)General safety! Just an exemple, once you are on toilet your kid get your weapon and he can accidentaly hurt himself or others.. Thats easy to guess.
NOW=
Sorry for this long exemple, but its just for remind you what is the real "Safety (as you called)", it's not only your glasses as you said, but its much more about the actions that you can do, your temperament, attitude, and its only up to you, (for exemple if you are a calm person then you can use lasers as you can buy weapons, i can't see the problem). If you like lasers in general i can't see the problem why you ask if you can make it. (of course you can!). We can just recomand things but no body online knows for certain which is the true reason. Its just about trust.. Anyway for lasers its almost the same. They wont kill as weapons but as you said they can cause blindness, burns on skin and fires (included all the accidents that can cause if you accidentaly turn the beam against means of transport, like airplanes). So the danger (even not compared to real weapons) is there!
SUGGESTIONS=
1)You asked the safety, now i can suggest you compare "lasers as weapons" and your "batteries as ammunition, and you wont have any problem!
.2) Sorry for everybody that get lasers as fun, but i'm not agree. Because i can get a fun on watch also a 5 mw greeen laser pointer just for notice the beam during night on the sky. No need to pass on 1W laser. So if you want this type of laser its a certain that you want power and for sure it's not just a fun. Or maybe it's funny for you to burn things
. is it really a big deal for you? Is usefull what you are making?3) I can play with my dog and also my friend cats with a laser pointer 5mw, and i can not do it if i use 1W. So you are everytime limited on something when you talk about lasers. In my last post i was asking for a powerfull green laser just because i like the green colour (that for my lucky is also more visible) and expecially because i do some work about engraving. So it will be very helpfull for me to use when im not at my office, means i just try to find more reasons before make a powerfull laser like that.
4) Treat your laser as your luxury car and they will endure more... Just like when you press the accelerator too long. You have fun, you go faster, but you consume everything first (in case of the laser as someone said, more power = most effective heatsink). But the time stop is the key for keep your laser life longer.
For the rest i guess we all gave you enought informations and for sure you will be a good laser builder.
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