Liteglow`s twin Laminar Jumping Jets :)

pmolsen wrote:Hey Liteglow, what town in Norway do you live in? My father was born in Hammerfest.

Hi there
I live North in Norway, in a city called Mo i Rana !

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=mo+i+rana+norway&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Mo+i+Rana,+Rana,+Nordland,+Norway&ll=66.310759,14.167728&spn=0.056141,0.174923&z=13

My garden is starting to get green with grass
And here is a short video of the "Fiber star Laminar nozzle" !



I not so sure what to do with the nozzles that is supposed to be under the grass
I have a small leak in some of the pipes that is 1meeter under the ground level !!
So maybe I have to do something new on my setup...

Anyway, I let the nozzle fly out from the bush until the grass is green and ready to be stepped at.

Hi filip, this looks Great! How is the quality of the stream, berrer than the selfmade, or better?
Nico fog!

Mario: The self-made nozzle is BETTER than the fiberstar nozzle !! '
The only thing about the Fiberstar is the fiber-rod inside (that I dont have in mine) !

but you have no problem with that on yours.
So I would say that your nozzle Mario is 200% better than the Fiberstars

liteglow wrote:Mario: The self-made nozzle is BETTER than the fiberstar nozzle !! '
The only thing about the Fiberstar is the fiber-rod inside (that I dont have in mine) !

but you have no problem with that on yours.
So I would say that your nozzle Mario is 200% better than the Fiberstars

OK Thanks , that makes me proud, the nozzles we built is better than a industial one GREAT!
Have a good time watching your stream in the Green Garden. Really too bad about the pipes in the ground! the only thing you can do find out where and seal this pipe.

Yes the pipes is a sad story... i wonder if I can seal 3 of them, and only use 1 !

I not so sure how to find the leak, I cannot dig up my NEW garden one more time

Here is some pictures of the Fiberstar Optic Light test, light source: 150mW Laserpointer














The light is pretty bright, and the laser is only 150mW maybe less...
Imagine how it will be if I try my 1500mW laser

What surprise me most is why you use overpriced luxeon LED, when you can use Blue, Red and green laser diodes that cost less than Luxeon and have much more power.
Laser light have a different way to light thing up, not always so pretty as LED, but as I can tell from the pictures, there was no difference when using the laser.

AWESOME! That is incredible!!!!

You have a good point about the laser diodes. For us newbies in the laser world can you point to a good source for purchasing lasers and what to look for?

John wrote:AWESOME! That is incredible!!!!

You have a good point about the laser diodes. For us newbies in the laser world can you point to a good source for purchasing lasers and what to look for?

Hello Filip. WOW thAT IS incredibe! Looks fantastic. Really bright like it should bee.
The Bad part :
Great light. But you should know about the laser Problems and sfety using, more than 10 mW is really dangerus if persons hit the stream and preduce refractions with ther hands, or ty to look into the stream. With 150mW or more its a deadly water gun for your Eyes, be carefull, when a tecnical defect is happen and the water stopps, the laser is going out without any protection! If a child is fascinating and try to play with it! I am shure no one will be responsibility for that.

I dont want to be a spoiler, but think on that problems too.

Thank you both :-)

Yes it`s incredible bright !!
And the pictures was taken in daylight also (no Photoshopping there) ...

Yes Mario, it`s very important about the safety on lasers.
Actually 4,99mW was the ONLY legal power to have in a laserpointer.
Today you can only have 1mW in a laser pointer.

more than 5mW directly is "safe" , but any more power than that can be dangerous to your eye.
When that said, 150mW from a laser pointer with a beam divergence at 1mm , and 0.9 mrad !
That will say it`s 150mW in 1mm diameter pointing directly to your eye.
the mrad is how much the focus point (dot) get bigger each meter away from the aperture.

If you focus the 1mm 150mW laser into a beam that is 20mm big in diameter, only 1-2mm of that will hit into your eye.
And if you also include the loss from the Fiber optic, rod inside the nozzle, and the water that will break up the beam in all directions.
I think it`s "safe" to use a laser in the nozzle..

Also the fact that you will only use the laminar nozzle in your own garden when YOU are home, I dont think there will be any "real" danger about that

But if you plan to use laser, there is like Mario said, some important safety notes you must take precaution at !
You can buy cheap green lasers, Red laser diodes is not that expencive, and thanx to Casio that have released a new laser projector that have 24pc of HIGH power blue laser diodes inside it, the price in total will not be much !

I maybe think you can use the blue laser diodes without any use of lenses ?

when I receive my blue laser diodes, I will try to add some of them into my nozzle, I did pay 50$ for 2 1W blue diode.
And if you use 2 fiber cables from one laser source, you can split them into your nozzles.

Kids LOVE the laminar flows :-)

hi what did you use to make the bracket so you can angle the water

colinley wrote:hi what did you use to make the bracket so you can angle the water

Like this:






Some more pictures of the nozzle and the FIBER holder:











And here is my filter:





2 hoses that goes into the nozzle, and there is filter around it
The pumps is outside of the "filter"

drooling.....I just can't take my eyes off of your light!

looks really nice, what kind if lase do you use?
whats the power in mW ?


the problem with lasers, is that you cant get the full rgb scale, or is there rgb lasers ?

zeet wrote:looks really nice, what kind if lase do you use?
whats the power in mW ?


the problem with lasers, is that you cant get the full rgb scale, or is there rgb lasers ?

This is a 1Watt blue laser (on the picture it`s 400mW) !
Yes you can have full RGB with laser, 16 million colours !

I have a RGB laser scanner..
You need Green, Red, and a blue laser to get full colour laser system
And you will need 3 drivers, one for each laser.

There is no problem using a laser, but you need to understand the basic of a laser first.
And understand the danger with laser light !! 1Watt of laser will make you blind for rest of your life if you use it wrong