Whats the max laser power?

Naessens

If i was buying a laser on ebay whats the legal power limit for skirmishing?

Hivemind187

Naessens wrote: »

If i was buying a laser on ebay whats the legal power limit for skirmishing?

0.5MW no greater than Class IIIa.

To my knowledge it can be red or green provided it doesnt exceed these requirements.

Dar

Actually afaik there's two restrictions- power and wavelength. Anything except red breaks the wavelength restriction. Anyone fancy digging up the legislation?

weeder

actually, how come thats the legal limit but optical devices such as cd burners usually have much more powerful class 1 lasers

Hivemind187

weeder wrote: »

actually, how come thats the legal limit but optical devices such as cd burners usually have much more powerful class 1 lasers

Because one is for highlighters and the other is a component part of a media device I suppose.


Oh and Dar ... you suck. We're about to have the laser arguement all over again

OzCam

The legal requirements are in the forum Charter, which you should have read before posting.

You can have any colour you like, as long as it's red.

The laser in CD burners etc is shielded and cannot be seen by the eye unless the device is disassembled. 15 seconds of reading the warning stickers or doing some basic research on the internet would have told you that.

And yes, even a 5mW laser can cause damage if shone into the eyes of someone who's wearing glasses.

Rew

Thanks Oz the rest of you can go back to school and read the charter like your supposed to have done already :rolleyes:

hal9000

Hivemind187 wrote: »

0.5MW no greater than Class IIIa.

To my knowledge it can be red or green provided it doesnt exceed these requirements.

A 0.5 Mega Watt Laser might be a bit over kill

Hivemind187

hal9000 wrote: »

A 0.5 Mega Watt Laser might be a bit over kill

I dont know nuffin' 'bout 'dat.

zero19

1.21 gigawatts! Just hit 88 and away with ya!

Lee 303

zero19 wrote: »

1.21 gigawatts! Just hit 88 and away with ya!

and just where do you fit the flux capactor

extremetaz

The power limit for laser pointers is in the region of 0.5mW (or possibly exactly, I'm unsure) - the colour is of no significance.

The reason however for the prejudice against anything but red comes very simply from the fact that all others are over this threshold. The reason that they are over the threshold is that higher frequency waves carry more energy at the same amplitude.

The significance of this is that even at the minimum operational energy levels for a green laser diode (ie: operating at the minimum gate threshold) in the vast majority of cases, it's already over this limit.

OzCam

Lasers are potentially more dangerous than a BB at 1J.

Please do not post on this subject without checking your facts first (that includes me).

Classification system

Safety info

Sorry for not putting these citations into last night's post, I was a bit tired.

Incorrect information helps no-one and perpetuates confusion. Those yellow stickers are not there just to look pretty.

Rew

The wording in the charter is directly from the DoJ so thats the bible. Id argue its still illeagle to put them on an Aisofy but no-one listens to me

Genghiz Cohen

OzCam wrote: »

Those yellow stickers are not there just to look pretty.

But they are pretty.

Thanks for the info, I didn't read this thread till now so I'm not confused (Take solace in that )

Necron99

Willie Hears Ya, Willie doesn't care

Imo i'm not a big fan of lasers and airsoft, I just don't trust the negative impact they can cause for eye and I've seen alot of medical articles about Red, Green & Blue lasers and most agreed Green & Blue should remain taboo.

Dar

My green laser goes to 11.

Stercus Accidit

The real thing that limits lasers in airsoft is just how feckin useless they are

TheDoc

Havnt got your hands on one you can zero, they are awesome.

TerrorFirmer

[DM]-TheDOC- wrote: »

Havnt got your hands on one you can zero, they are awesome.

I was buying a load of stuff a while back and on impulse tossed a double eagle cheapo mac10 springer into the basket. Apart from the gun itself, and the rail, the scope, the torch, and glasses, for the princely 9 euro sum, came a fully metal and adjustable laser - mounted it on my M9 and it's zero'd pretty well.

Stercus Accidit

Dex said it before, it takes longer to point an aeg at a target, find the red dot with your eye, move it, and fire, than using irons, or a red-dot hud style scope.

It was some military report, they only use peq lasers etc. with night vision as its invisible to tangos, and its hard to look down a scope with a face full of monocular.


Legal limit, 5mw, in red.

Lasers are cool looking and fun to mess with.

You're better off with a red-dot sight for gaming.