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Old July 15th, 2007, 00:51   #14
Affliction
a.k.a. Fury a.k.a. VipaMave
 
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Markham-ON
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Originally Posted by Qlong View Post
Hey theres a website which gives some decent info on these higher output green lasers, shows you can take apart an old webcam and use its IR filter to filter out some 80 percent of the outputting IR

http://www.felesmagus.com/pages/lasers-cheap.html

I still wouldn't look into them though.
Great link, I learned quite a bit from it.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Gryphon
FWIW, the Manitoba Airsoft Association has banned any laser that is, or is suspected to be, over 5 mW. We have a local laser expert that has a power meter which can determine the true power of these items, and some of these 20 mW lasers are actually closer to 65 mW. Extremely dangerous. I try not to look at the specular reflection of a green laser, never mind into it!
I would suspect it would be a good idea to simply prohibit lasers in general. A person could have a laser without an IR filter on his gun and nobody would be the wiser.
-VM
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