Homemade 200W light bazooka

Have you ever played with a laser pointer? A funny laser thing with only 0.005 W like kittens, but more from it no sense. In some countries, 0.005 W is the official limit allowed on pointers that are safe for health.

If you put the laser a little more power, then such a pointer may temporarily blind the pilot taking off the plane . A person loses orientation in space for a few seconds.
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What happens if you assemble a projector lamp with a total power of 200 watts and concentrate the light beam through a large magnifying glass? Such weapons are definitely prohibited by the Geneva Convention.

Talented craftsman and techno-blogger Drake Anthony (Drake Anthony), known by the nickname styropyro , showed his latest development - a homemade light "bazooka" , assembled from parts of broken DLP-projectors, heaps of lithium-ion batteries and other parts from garbage.

The result was a 200-watt weapon, he said, about 40,000 times more powerful than a conventional laser pointer. Although in this case it is not entirely correct to compare the power of the light beam with the laser.



It should be warned that this experiment is dangerous to health. The beam of such power is able to ignite objects and easily burns the retina of the eye. Styropyro itself was not affected, because it used a welding mask.

Light bazooka design

The main component of the weapon is four powerful lamps from broken DLP-projectors. On top of them are mounted radiators for cooling.



A magnifying glass is installed in front of the lamps - a lens for focusing.



To demonstrate Drake's bazooka, in a few seconds he burnt a hole in the metal case from the computer's system unit.



The tree ignites in a few seconds, as does the cardboard - the bazooka is great for starting a fire. Inflatable balls burst instantly, so that such a weapon is fun to use in the dash.

If you direct the beam to some more combustible material, the consequences can be fatal.



Drake says that when using a welding mask, the bazooka is relatively safe. It is not ionizing radiation, which increases the risk of skin cancer and other risks. As is known, only high-energy photon fluxes (X-rays, gamma rays) and particle fluxes (electrons, neutrons, etc.) belong to ionizing radiation.



On the channel styropyro a lot of interesting crafts. For example, a 6-watt Star Wars-style laser sword and a 40-watt laser shotgun .

In the coming months, the young man is going to experiment with a megawatt pulsed laser. If the guy survives, he will definitely tell about it on his YouTube channel.