The next generation ecig atty?

[jerrydon10]

At least I think so.

Please take a couple of minutes to watch this video:

How to make a 200mw burning laser | Hacks, Mods & Circuitry Video « Wonder How To

This laser diode is already in a cig shaped package. If one can get it from a CD burner, it can't be THAT expensive. Shine that on a juiced up polyfill.

I would be in vaping heaven!

 

[Jason365]

Im game. I want more a little power though. Is it really from a cd burner? wth?

Jason

 

[Lucacri]

The only concern i can think of is the temperature that this laser beam can achieve. Will it be enough to vaporize the juice?

 

[jerrydon10]

They were taking them from DVD burners (sorry, meant DVD) until that guy showed where you can buy them.

I have had a laser pen sitting here for a couple of years that I used to play with the cats (they love chasing that red dot).

That would make such a great, stable, reliable, heat source for an atty, I would think. Some of you super-modders need to help us out on this. It could potentially revolutionize our hobby.

 

[jerrydon10]

The only concern i can think of is the temperature that this laser beam can achieve. Will it be enough to vaporize the juice?

I THINK so. It pops balloons, lights matches and melts electrical tape. Should work.

 

[codfish124]

i have spent 100's of dollars on making lasers in the past......... good luck it might work if the juice was black ( black e tape, black bloon, and he didn't show it but a black tot on the match. ) any thing that is not black absorbs the light ( i even got more powerful laser diode same thing only burns black stuff

 

[markule]

You would need something to absorb the energy (as noted). Since the liquid is (mostly, generally) clear, an optical wavelength (we can see it) laser wouldn't work *directly*. Would probably be too much energy in too small a spot anyhow. Direct it to a black metal plate in contact with the juice, however...Now, if you could find an absorption spectrum for PG:
http://www.fao.org/docrep/w6355e/w6355e1o.gif
You could select a laser that would heat the PG directly, and other things with oxygen hydrogen bonds like water, but that's a different beast.

I'd have to wonder if, for the purposes of heating, it may be less efficient to do it with a laser than just resistance, but wouldn't know since I'm a chemist not an electrical engineer or thermodynamics expert of any kind...

 

[roadkilldeluxe]

What if you heated a black material that had juice in contact with it? Something like: laser--->glass--->thin space for juice--->black backing.

Or just directly heat some sort of black wick?

 

[Bubo]

Great... Now we are aiming burning lasers at our heads...
I see a bad movie in the making.....

 

[Jason365]

I can see it now..
Nicostick with mirrors and special glass bottles filled with juice, the bottle will have a clear spot in the glass for the laser to get in and boil the juice. How to keep it fro spilling? Oh I forgot I need to get one of those lasers first. I got an old dvd burner right here. Oh theres a laser

 

[codfish124]

with a black plate for heating the juice on top how would you wick it so you didn't have to drip every hit. i like the black bottle with a clear peep hole for a laser but i doubt any laser out of a DVD burner would boil the juice fast enuff to be efficient.

now this might work YouTube - burning laser/ green laser/ dpss/pen laser

now a 4W lasor here YouTube - Killer 4W Argon Ion Laser! maybe


but a 30W would do it better YouTube - High Power Laser 30w Hochleistungslaser

 

[KonaNeil]

Congratulations! You've found a way to have the FDA love us even more than they do now.

Go to the back of your CD player. Look for the tag with the text that starts something like: Warning! Class 2 Laser Device.

Maybe I should go back to a nice safe hobby like motorcycle racing;-)

 

[jerrydon10]

Lol...........

 

[Data4]

Wait, we've got a laser here at work somewhere that might work. Lemme see... Ah! Here we go!

YouTube - Airborne Laser 2009 Executive Progress Report

 

[jj2]

Great... Now we are aiming burning lasers at our heads...
I see a bad movie in the making.....

Thanks, I needed a good laugh.