bmdj
23-01-2013, 03:56 PM
A word of warning!
I recently bought an Ishow ILDA adapter for my KAM Laserscan 1000 3D. As you do, I was very eager to try it out and plugged everything in and turned everything on before installing the drivers on my PC. What I ended up with was all three lasers in the kam firing on full power and on single beam as the PC booted!!! Luckily I was in my living room, but let me tell you the power coming out of it was immense and very dangerous in a crowd situation, the beam was untouchable ( hot ) and I powered off the laser immediately.
Now I have been part of a laser builders forum for a few years and have had argon lasers previously and operated a 3w laser in a club, so I'm well aware of the dangers involved when operating laser. My worry is now that this kit it available to the novice DJ at a relativity low cost, they may no be fully aware of the harm they could possibly do to people.
There are a few factors highlighted here don't be too eager to set things up! But if you do have this kit, try it out before a gig in a safe environment, worth wiring up an emergency stop button to the 2 pin socket on the back of the KAM. These lasers are great but don't ever program it to do a single beam!
Not sure what was quite at fault here, me for not installing everything first, the Kam Laserscan for allowing single beam, although show lasers tend to have a separate bit of kit to monitor for a single beam and shut off the laser, or the "cheap" Ishow controller, as I would imaging it shouldn't "output" without the software installed, but that's probably why they are cheap!
I recently bought an Ishow ILDA adapter for my KAM Laserscan 1000 3D. As you do, I was very eager to try it out and plugged everything in and turned everything on before installing the drivers on my PC. What I ended up with was all three lasers in the kam firing on full power and on single beam as the PC booted!!! Luckily I was in my living room, but let me tell you the power coming out of it was immense and very dangerous in a crowd situation, the beam was untouchable ( hot ) and I powered off the laser immediately.
Now I have been part of a laser builders forum for a few years and have had argon lasers previously and operated a 3w laser in a club, so I'm well aware of the dangers involved when operating laser. My worry is now that this kit it available to the novice DJ at a relativity low cost, they may no be fully aware of the harm they could possibly do to people.
There are a few factors highlighted here don't be too eager to set things up! But if you do have this kit, try it out before a gig in a safe environment, worth wiring up an emergency stop button to the 2 pin socket on the back of the KAM. These lasers are great but don't ever program it to do a single beam!
Not sure what was quite at fault here, me for not installing everything first, the Kam Laserscan for allowing single beam, although show lasers tend to have a separate bit of kit to monitor for a single beam and shut off the laser, or the "cheap" Ishow controller, as I would imaging it shouldn't "output" without the software installed, but that's probably why they are cheap!