CO2 tube question

[steve-o]

Hope you got your IR goggles on

[buffo]

Hope you got your IR goggles on

Glass-lens eyeglasses should work pretty well...

CO2 lasers lase in the far IR; 10,600 nm or something like that. At that wavelength glass is opaque to the radiation. (Which is why your car gets hot in the summer - short wave solar radiation gets in, but the longwave IR coming off the seats and dash can't get back out.)

On the other hand, your standard plastic IR goggles (1064nm and 808 nm) would be just about useless. (They'd melt and catch fire in short order.)

Adam

[steve-o]

Yeah I was talking about 10.6 uM protection. The liquid in the eye looks black to that wavelength and causes serious damage

[Laser Ben]

How many watts is the tube rated to?

[steve-o]

it is very much like a lady's purse model laser..

WTF? maybe if the lady looks like Arnold S...

[swamidog]

WTF? maybe if the lady looks like Arnold S...

it weighs less, not including the 28vdc 6amp power supply, than some purses!

have you seen my free trial sized flamethrower?

[steve-o]

Free? Wow . put me down for 100

[buffo]

What is that? A super-soaker water gun filled with gasoline?

I want one!

But back to Laser Ben's question... How much power can you push out the business end of your CO2 laser, Mike?

Adam

[steve-o]

What is that? A super-soaker water gun filled with gasoline?

Sounds very fun and dangerous to me
I don't think I'll go try it..

[buffo]

Yeah...

I saw a video on YouTube where some guy had filled a super-soaker with a flammable liquid (don't know if it was gasoline or something else), and he was shooting liquid fire all over his backyard. But it didn't look quite as impressive as the picture above.

I'm thinking he's got some sort of pressurized hose feeding that wand and the main tank is out of the picture. But it sure looks cool. (Not that I'd actually try to build one myself... With my luck the gasoline would dissolve the plastic parts of my makeshift flamethrower and I'd end up setting myself on fire.)

Adam