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new video! MILLION WATT laser from eBay (Patreon early viewing) (Patreon)

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2019-12-10 23:34:57

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My newest video! I'm letting you all see this video first before it goes live!

There's a lot of cool experiments in this video, and I really could have spaced it out into two or three separate videos. This video hits a lot of my favorite things: chemistry, physics, high voltage, and of course extremely high powered lasers. It is my longest video yet.

I really appreciate all the support I've gotten here, and I hope the couple of unlisted videos I posted here since my public upload have been entertaining. Without getting too personal, I shut down my video operations for the most part when my grandpa got diagnosed with terminal cancer. He has since passed away, but thankfully I was able to spend a lot of time with him and my family in his final days.

On a better note, I just received a couple new cameras that I will be filming with from now on, since my previous cameras were destroyed filming this video.

Stay safe and happy lasing!

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Dangerous tattoo burner from eBay is a MILLION watt laser

This tattoo removal device from eBay is the most powerful laser I've shown on this channel! It is so powerful that even AIR ignites in the laser beam! instagram: https://www.instagram.com/styro.drake twitter: https://twitter.com/H_C_Lambda patreon: https://www.patreon.com/styropyro backup channel and b-side videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz-3epzOdIyu-aXdeUaVP1A discord: https://discord.gg/hVZMcWT I was searching for a Nd:YAG laser cavity for a future project when I came across a bunch of tattoo removal devices on eBay. They claimed to contain one of these lasers but at a small fraction of the cost of buying the parts separately. Skeptical, I bought one anyway since I had the option to return it if they didn't live up to the claims. Much to my surprise my unit turned out to be INSANELY powerful, so strong that it can ignite the air on fire! The laser head is a flashlamp pumped, q-switched Nd:YAG laser with a frequency doubling tip for the option of green light. My estimations yield a peak output power of 30 million watts. In the video, I start by testing the laser against various materials, including aluminum, tungsten, coins, acrylic, and various other materials. Since the laser can also ignite air, I used this as a benchmark and then estimated peak power with the methods of Gaussian optics. After destroying a bunch of stuff, I use the laser to drive another laser in a dye laser setup. Using the organic dye rhodamine B, I was able to create a beautiful orange laser by blasting the dye with green photons. Finally, I tried giving the laser the "overclocked" treatment but my modifications destroyed the laser in one shot. oof