loneoceans this is another beautiful project!! I have no experience with laser but I like your idea of putting everything on one board.
I see great possibility that you use the same idea to build a buck driver for flashlight! This seem like a 12A buck driver to me, if you can make 12A 2S buck driver in 17mm, i think a lot of people will want to buy it! Maybe it exist already but I do not know.
loneoceans say for 7w light output he driving with about 21w power in! it seem like this driver can do 50w power, so this is why i suggest to make a very powerful buck driver for flashlight using same design!
Flashlight driver doesn’t sit on a thick piece of copper though and it wont fit on 17mm. I’m sure there is some that can be adapted to flashlights though
I was thinking about situations like the nutjob in Nebada Las Begas during that concert that used the dreaded bump-stock to do his nasties. Okay, so everyone’s pinned down, you can’t shoot back even if you were packing (at risk of peppering a bunch of innocently-occupied rooms in the process), but one good look at where the bozo’s shooting from, whip out Ol’ Blue, and give him a few multi-watt flashes to sear his retinas, and he won’t be shooting anyone except purely at random. And then won’t be able to escape without feeling his way out with a white cane.
Yeah… that was bad. Amazing it disappeared from the news so fast too.
“The dreaded bump-stock”…. I’ll have to assume that is sarcasm.
A bump-stock is good for nothing but to play with for the most part. If your trying to really hit anything specific after the second shot…. good luck unless you are highly trained & lucky. It’s more of a ‘pray & spray’ device.
Heck, you can do the same thing with a rubber band or a belt if you know what you are doing.
That could possibly work well…. :+1:
But, on the other hand, if you have located where the “bozo” is; Pb & Cu could work well also.
Questions (not being sarcastic and also not suggesting it’s a good idea either):
Would the buildings glass not stop said laser from hurting people behind it (so only the shot out window rooms occupants were at risk)?
Would the buildings glass reflect the laser and have it still be powerful enough to do damage to people still on the ground?