That’s right. I’m personally taking the time here to thank Wallbuys for the nice laser I received in the mail today. As you guys know, I never received my laser from the order I placed at Christmas with them that I got awhile back. Well Cherry took care of me and handled this herself. I really like it. I’ll play with it some more when it gets dark.
Yes they did. And I wanted to let you guys know this. Some think all I do is complain when something goes wrong. Well I’m not complaining here. I am very happy. And I wanted to personally thank Wallbuys. I do think they are a very good company. I think they will only get better. Maybe more post like this will motivate them even more to be the great company that they can be.
Glad to here that things got sorted out for ILF. I always tell people that screwing things up is an opportunity to really impress. Things do go wrong, the ability of a company to deal with that is a far greater measure of them than their ability to just process a simple order.
I'm happy to hear things worked out for you as well.
Careful with that laser. You should probably have protective goggles. 100mW is very powerful and could potentially damage your eyes even if not looking directly into the beam.
Sometimes glasses aren’t enough. My old canoeing buddy did a year working on the laser at Rutherford. Part of that work was vaporising 1Kg blocks of rock in a vacuum chamber to make mini supernova. It was certainly in the Tera Watt range back in the mid 90’s.
All of these tend to use the same cheap modules inside.
You could be looking at anywhere between 30-180mW.
For indoor use, if you want to use it to light matches/pop baloons, that kind kind of thing, you do need goggles: http://www.survivallaserusa.com/Eagle_Pair__190-540nm___800-2000nm_Laser_Safety_Goggles/p1667092_7862069.aspx
That laser will not be IR filtered.
Otherwise regular safety rules apply... NEVER look into the beam, point at planes, cars, people, animals, etc,. Never look into the aperture. Even if it appears to not be working. Specular reflections (from a mirror for example, although a lot of surfaces tend to be shiny) = BAD.
Check instructions, but 99% the battery will go on + to tailcap. Have fun :D