What kind of safety glasses/goggles to get?

[Jimmy575]

Alright, I'm new here, and am getting very confused. I wanted to make a laser for myself, but don't have any of the basics, so I thought I'd start here.

What kind of safety goggles should I get , I want to work with lasers that pop balloons, and burn other stuff. I will probably make a high-powered one sometime. I want strong goggles for this, could I get some links to well known sites, such as amazon or ebay, or names of goggles that I could search for?

Thanks for your help.

 

[timelord]

Don't trust ebay for safety goggle if you are using red lasers then the cheapest will be from www.wickedlasers.com
The goggles are good but the lasers are overpriced and not recommended.....

 

[Jimmy575]

So the Red 650 nm Lasershades would work? I wanted to use red lasers. Their highest powered red laser was 125mw, what if I wanted to make a 200mw laser, would these still protect? I don't know how to interpret nm's. What are they? Couldn't find them on wikipedia.

 

[timelord]

Yes those lasershades are very good for reds

 

[timelord]

So the Red 650 nm Lasershades would work? I wanted to use red lasers. Their highest powered red laser was 125mw, what if I wanted to make a 200mw laser, would these still protect? I don't know how to interpret nm's. What are they? Couldn't find them on wikipedia.

In short yes they will protect you mate