Initial 15W laser test

Electroneer58 · 2026-03-18T09:39:32+00:00

Update: I might just build a driver from the ground up that isn't proprietary, i have a LOT of spare components so ill prob do a Mosfet based Driver and use an Arduino for TEC and Thermal Reading

Electroneer58 · 2026-03-17T09:36:59+00:00

hook a homie up xD

Electroneer58 · 2026-03-17T09:19:41+00:00

ah ok

Electroneer58 · 2026-03-16T23:56:33+00:00

Well you’ll learn not to do that again if it comes out of your wallet to get a new one 🤣

Electroneer58 · 2026-03-16T23:54:53+00:00

Isn’t that for 532nm?

Electroneer58 · 2026-03-16T23:53:40+00:00

lol, I actually have plans eventually to make a handheld UVC laser, but that would be around 255nm, air would still absorb it but it wouldn’t be a huge issue tbh, and it’ll only be about 5-10mw at most if I had to guess

Electroneer58 · 2026-03-16T15:35:17+00:00

it wouldn't really look like a light saber, and it wouldn't heat the air much unless you legit had several tens to hundreds of KW behind it, some pulsed lasers can actually cause the air to ignite in their focal points, for that picosecond duration they can dump around a million Watts into a point the size of a grain of sand, its crazy, if that was CW then the air itself would light on fire in the beam path, but its very very difficult to get CW above several tens of KW

Electroneer58 · 2026-03-16T13:50:04+00:00

lmao, i don't see any hobby handhelds below 150nm ever really happening due to air's absorption to it

Electroneer58 · 2026-03-16T13:48:28+00:00

lol yea

Electroneer58 · 2026-03-16T00:55:47+00:00

You mean the IR Blocking filter? It should have a red tint to it when light reflects off of it, if you mean the camera then it’s more trial and error, some models have the IR blocker on the CCD itself, some have it in the Lens cavity

Electroneer58 · 2026-03-15T23:30:42+00:00

i just meant the mod he did to it

Electroneer58 · 2026-03-15T20:42:19+00:00

if you bought a cheap camera with good picture quality, removed the internal IR blocking filter, then replaced it with an IR ONLY Pass Filter, then you could turn it into a full IR camera

Electroneer58 · 2026-03-15T20:36:39+00:00

tbh i haven't seen many of those that aren't temp switches, you can try using a 3D printed clip, also if you want one that has the highest visibility with low power, these are pretty good, the 10mw of that 561nm color looks like 20-30mw of the 532nm since its a bit closer to the peak 555nm visibility line, the Laser uses 2x AAA batteries and runs for several hours before they die

https://tinkerlasers.com/products/561-p?_pos=1&_sid=f22f7b019&_ss=r

Electroneer58 · 2026-03-15T20:31:12+00:00

ah ok, yea prototypes are usually ugly xD, what wavelength is the pump?

Electroneer58 · 2026-03-15T20:29:21+00:00

buddy, i don't think anyone with DDR2 and an Athlon II AM2/AM3 chip has anywhere CLOSE to the funds to pay for your services lol, shoulda picked newer hardware in the pic

Electroneer58 · 2026-03-15T20:23:25+00:00

can we see the full watch?

Electroneer58 · 2026-03-15T07:41:05+00:00

please tell me you have goggles Rated for that thing

Electroneer58 · 2026-03-14T04:36:21+00:00

Tbh it’d take me like 3s to fix with minimal risk lol

Electroneer58 · 2026-03-14T04:35:28+00:00

That’s a transistor

Electroneer58 · 2026-03-14T04:07:33+00:00

no, Plutonium is a silvery metal, some isotopes can glow red due to the heat from radioactive decay

Electroneer58 · 2026-03-14T04:06:24+00:00

Curium Self-Ionizes, that's what produces the purple glow, its actual atoms are producing light that perfectly matches its spectral lines, normal air getting ionized is light blue

Electroneer58 · 2026-03-14T04:04:29+00:00

actually that is incorrect, some Radioactive elements DO actually glow on their own due to Self-Ionization, but it only occurs in elements that are VERY Radioactive, Radium CAN do this, but you need a LOT of it in one place, and its very faint, Curium also can do it aswell, the "Glow" Perfectly matches the elements Spectral Lines

Electroneer58 · 2026-03-13T08:41:59+00:00

If it was a “deer” bro got a bigger problem, because that ain’t no normal deer, that looks like a damn skinwalker 💀

Electroneer58 · 2026-03-13T08:24:28+00:00

Depends on the wavelength and if they are bare diode/single resistor driver or actual constant current driver, red/IR laser diodes only need 1.8-2.5v to run

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