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The sales guy set up the entire rig on his own? And no other engineers in the lab stopped to ask what he was doing? I know some places have poor safety culture, but this is a “laser company”. Basic laser safety should be drilled into them from day 1 and every day after. When I worked in an optics lab, we had interlocks on the doors that switched on with the power supply running the experiment and a sign outside indic…
It's pretty crazy that the sales guy was able to connect the water cooling and power with enough hosing and cables to bring it outside, as well as know how to operate the device enough to activate it - but couldn't correctly point it _at the ground_ and burn the paint off of the street without melting through a car. But forgetting that, what are the core safety issues described? I get the direct exposure to unprotect…
Re: How I got my laser eye injury
#361These types of lasers are integrated into end customer systems by techs at a factory. They are very simple to setup from the black box level of understanding. All you do is plug in water (blue hose in and red hose for out) since the electrical system is typical a box that simply plugs into the laser head and the wall outlet. The only factor that could affect the output power that's not on the controls would be the water temperature.