high powered lasers, anyone here into them

[oldpink]

its been an ambition of mine since I saw Floyd in 1990 to have a real kick ass laser show
even before that I wondered if it was possible to project a laser display on the moon
(answer yes it is but you need the US national grid and defence budget to do it)

anyway I divulge
recently I have bought a 60mW green scan laser unit and I'm in the process of buying software and hardware to do laser shows
I have also bought a 500mW RGB scan to allow me to do full colour animation due to arrive tomorrow
but I'm currently looking at a 2.8w RGB which are selling on fleabay for about £1000

I'm also just about to buy Pangolin Quick show software and DAC to control them
I've been trying the demo of the software for a couple of days and have some pretty good results
and at £400 for the DAC and software I feel its well worth the expense as I love it to bits

anyone else into this stuff that could give me some guidance before I bite off more than I can chew
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100W CO2 lasers high enough power for you?
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Greetings from Shitsville!

[oldpink]

[Yoyo]

Always wanted to ride around the Wolds in the night with a big arse one strapped to my back shining up in the sky.

Then watch the news the next day about aliens landing.
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[oldpink]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2LyGiBVd7U&list=UU-ZFe8IkRur-5f5_t-tqDlA&index=2&feature=plcp

last night I used the flats behind me as a screen to play with the 60mw green (2 minutes into the video)
before we were playing with a bomb tank and theatrical pyrotechnics's
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[phatstorage]

Ox lasers are good. Only do pointers. Got a 200mw green and red, and just got a 1.2w blue. Good for burning but nothing else. Divergence is crap on them.
Was interested in a dmx rgb 3watt from a guy called Dave Wang, but costs too much for me.

Here's the site, www.brandnew-china.cn/productgrouplist-212925709/RGB_Laser_Projector.html

Prices differ mainly with beam divergence and galvo pps speed.

[oldpink]

yeah I looked at some of them but there up in the 10k price range
the ones I need need to be about 40 deg divergence and at least 20Kpps
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Theory & hazard 24-may 2016, CBT 8th June 2016, MOD 1 2nd Aug 2016 Mod 2 2nd-Nov 2016 - Current bike CBR 600 RR

[unitynotsocri...]

been fucking about with lasers for 20 years,which is why my sight is deteriorating rapidy......I should have stuck to wanking and saved my sight
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[phatstorage]

The ones on that site for a 3w are from 3k to 5k iirc, and have 30-40k scanners and pretty good divergence, around 30 degrees. I have an emailed price list somewhere.

[lllN30lll]

I've got an Arctic S3 that's about it https://www.wickedlasers.com/arctic
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[oldpink]

yeah cost is an issue, my total budget is £1500 in total inc the software
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I have become comfortably numb

Theory & hazard 24-may 2016, CBT 8th June 2016, MOD 1 2nd Aug 2016 Mod 2 2nd-Nov 2016 - Current bike CBR 600 RR