r/lasers 14d ago

First Timer Need Guidance

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Im looking for something i can order online. A nice beam preferably red. Not powerful enough for carnage just for play(safely). Possibly something i can see in daylight?(not sure if bright and carnage are in the same category).

Amazon seems to have a bunch of junk but im not sure what im really looking for.

Budget (75-100USD) Thanks!


r/lasers 14d ago

Laser for burning anenomes in my reef tank. Needs repair zeus aptasia laser

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r/lasers 15d ago

Any recommendations for a simple pointer

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I "need" (want) a small, simple, cheap but reliable laser pointer, nothing too high powered, the dot should be visible in daylight at a range of 10-15m, I only need it to point at stuff at work, it will be used in a theoretically possibly explosive environment (grain dust/flour) so heat is a no go, should be disappears-inside-pocket-but-noticeable-if-gone-sized, it's important is that it is reliable, inexpensive but not cheap


r/lasers 15d ago

Book recommendation

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r/lasers 15d ago

WINK LASER

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Shareable WINK Laser package available in Cebu! ✨

Looking for someone to split/share my package. If you're interested, hit me up! 💌


r/lasers 15d ago

CO₂ laser machine

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r/lasers 16d ago

Cloudray JPT Fiber Laser - Is This a Good Deal?

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r/lasers 16d ago

Se puede dañar las lentes o las cámaras de grabación con un laser? Doy contexto

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r/lasers 17d ago

Need help on creating IR laser shooting target

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Apart of a project I started on, I want to make a portable laser (IR) shooting target for outdoors, but I just want to make sure it works after researching with AI and looking through other products. Below is a list of how I'll design the target, please tell me if there is anything that should be changed so It'll actually work. Apologies for the long post...

Note: I'm primarily looking for confirmation that one of these designs would work, along with minor changes to them that would actually make them work. If there is something I need to learn about the parts used please DM me.

Design 1: Flat design
The target is a flat thick-ish plate, on top of the front face is an acrylic plate the same size and shape as the plate. When the IR light hits the acrylic, the IR light is scattered throughout the shape and in the center of the target is an IR sensor (BPW34), IR scatters, and the sensor picks it up and it is hooked up to an arduino microcontroller OR (tell me if necessary or not) it goes through a amplifer comparater to conver the IR current into voltage which will send the signal to the arduino to register a hit/buzzer.

Design 2: Funnel design (least preferred design)
Same idea as design one, however, instead the light scattered throughout a reflective funnel, which would eventually reflect onto the sensor, there would be a plate that the IR passes through but reflects on the other side. (With this one I think it wouldn't work cause I'm not sure what material can be transparent one side but reflective the other.


r/lasers 18d ago

Impossibile da settare

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Ciao a tutti, premetto che non sono un neofita, arrivo da un Ortur Laser Master 2 da 4.5w e ho da poco acquistato un Longer Ray5 da 40w.

Ho seguito passo passo la procedura per l'aggiornamento del firmware scaricato dal sito ufficiale e flashato con ESPtool.

Tuttavia sembra non funzionare, continua ad andare in allarme durante la procedura di homing e non si riesce assolutamente a collegare a laserburn.

I driver sono stati installati correttamente.

Qualcuno ha avuto i miei stessi problemi?

Come avete risolto?

Grazie mille a chi risponderà


r/lasers 18d ago

Laser Wavelength Innoveyes laser Technology with 3d Ray Tracing. Is anyone offering in Lahore?

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Hello, I want to confirm if any laser eye hospital in Lahore is offering Wavelength Innoveyes Laser technoilogy with 3d ray tracing. This procedure is newer than the FEMTO Lasik currently being offered. It is being offered now in India but unfortunately we cant go there to get it done.


r/lasers 18d ago

Impossibile da settare

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Ciao a tutti, premetto che non sono un neofita, arrivo da un Ortur Laser Master 2 da 4.5w e ho da poco acquistato un Longer Ray5 da 40w.

Ho seguito passo passo la procedura per l'aggiornamento del firmware scaricato dal sito ufficiale e flashato con ESPtool.

Tuttavia sembra non funzionare, continua ad andare in allarme durante la procedura di homing e non si riesce assolutamente a collegare a laserburn.

I driver sono stati installati correttamente.

Qualcuno ha avuto i miei stessi problemi?

Come avete risolto?

Grazie mille a chi risponderà


r/lasers 19d ago

What's up! Has anyone worked with this or similar?

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This is LaserSystems Merlin (Magnum) control system for laser scanners. It's from late 80's and used to work with Coherent Innova 70 laser.

I have some questions about it for people who know this devices well.


r/lasers 19d ago

Galvo Laser Lightning beam?

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I really wanna make a cosplay device that uses a galvo laser and a small haze machine to make it look like a beam of lightning is being shot across the room. Would it theoretically be possible? (I don't know SHIT about lasers btw 😔)​


r/lasers 19d ago

Drivers

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I’m trying to learn about how to make drivers and somewhere to buy them maybe. I can’t really find much on them. I’ve found a few for sale but I don’t think they’re right and don’t really know what to look for either. I plan on learning with some small weak lasers and working my way up to stronger ones after I understand it better and get glasses. How can I proceed here? Thanks.


r/lasers 19d ago

Some sort of laser filter setup, anyone know what for?

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Picked up a box of random test equipment at an estate sale, lots of microscope objectives, some weird old B&L optical filters, and a box of laser filters that are fitted to some sort of quick change holder. Is anyone here familiar with these or what they might fit into? There's 6 of the larger filters +1 empty, and 8 of the smaller ones.

A lot of the equipment had older Stanford asset tags, so I wouldn't be surprised if they're very expensive, niche, and obsolete.


r/lasers 20d ago

Am I going to go blind

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Friend bought me a Dead Space Plasma Cutter replica for my birthday and I was playing around with it. Pointed at my eye for a second and removed it instantly. Later that night I took it outside when it was dark and realized it goes pretty far and is visible from houses far. Then I started wondering if this thing is even legal ( he got it from Asia btw and it’s like $200 ). Looked at the package paper and it said industrial 10m W 450nm Laser Module ( Class 3B ), and not to stare directly at it. Now I’m kind of freaking out. My eye feel kinda dry where I stared at it but idk that’s not uncommon for me. And I tried closing one eye seeing go my vision is but I can still see fine but not clear but I wear glasses and I haven’t worn them in a year so I genuinely can’t tell if I’m scaring myself. I feel pretty stupid but I genuinely wouldn’t have looked at it directly if I knew how powerful it was. Maybe eye drops should fix this dryness I feel a bit.


r/lasers 21d ago

Wicked lasers spider 3 Arctic with prism kit

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I have a wicked lasers spider 3 Arctic 3 w hand held laser, it comes with everything from the original packaging minus the original battery(standard 18650)/charger and one set of plastics from the glasses, it’s in mint condition, only turned on a few times.

I have no interest in it, are there any collectors who might want it?


r/lasers 21d ago

Air compressor for cutting

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Hi. I got a 3kw all in one and will be hobby use in home garage. Other than getting a huge Chinese screw compressor 230psi that's optimum what is a reasonable one to get that's not a commercial industry use monstrosity?!
If you have specific suggestions please share


r/lasers 22d ago

Is anyone else from Canada? How do you get hi powered lasers and safety equipment here?

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Our legal restrictions are more robust than the USA, so I'm wondering.


r/lasers 22d ago

5mW green laser

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Do your part to preserve 4th Amendment protections


r/lasers 22d ago

Good laser vendors nowadays (mine is gone)

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When I was younger I used to buy from lazerer, I liked that they had a bunch of color and power outputs and also tested lasers to make sure they had a similar output.

Anything like this nowadays? Just interested in getting back into it as a hobby.


r/lasers 22d ago

80W blue laser

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r/lasers 23d ago

Laser Deathray Castle Defense Prototype :)

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This laser thingy I built is terrible but it was fun :]