• Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    As an avid watcher of styropyro, any labeling on that device is pretty much useless. Considering it burns shit, it’s at least 1W, if not higher. Amazon and eBay lasers are notorious for being orders of magnitude more powerful than they are advertised, which is why I picked this one lol. If it costs more than $30, it’s probably capable of blinding anyone not careful with it.

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      3 hours ago

      Hooray, it is of indeterminate wattage.

      In the context of economies of scale, I think it’s possible that a lot of these laser pointers are made with surplus Blu-ray diodes, which have obviously been produced in mass quantities. It would explain why they can be had so cheaply.