I'm not sure if you are the same person, but a similar discussion went on over here:
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To put it bluntly, this is a bad idea that will not work.
I'm not sure that you understand the power levels required to light a cigarette. You are talking about a laser bright enough that looking at its dot on a wall can cause permanent eye damage. Even a chance reflection between a few windows or a glass of water will blind you instantly.
This is not going to look cool or be impressive. In the best case (Where your idea works), you are going to see a bright flash of light and then nothing for the rest of your life.
Just to clear up the information, if you really want to go through with this, you will need at least 250mW and probably closer to 500mW. Lighting cigarettes has been done but you will need to hold it exactly at the focal point of a focused laser for ten seconds or so. To make this safe you will need some heavy duty eye protection which will filter out all the light (Aka you won't see the action).
Laser diodes are extremely easy to destroy and are generally run from a current regulating LM317 circuit or similar. All the aixiz modules already have a power supply and just need a few batteries.
In my opinion, a far better method is just to stick a cheap red laser into a lighter with a very dim flame and make it look like the laser is doing the work. There will be enough smoke for the laser to look impressive and you will actually be able to watch it light.
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To put it bluntly, this is a bad idea that will not work.
I'm not sure that you understand the power levels required to light a cigarette. You are talking about a laser bright enough that looking at its dot on a wall can cause permanent eye damage. Even a chance reflection between a few windows or a glass of water will blind you instantly.
This is not going to look cool or be impressive. In the best case (Where your idea works), you are going to see a bright flash of light and then nothing for the rest of your life.
Just to clear up the information, if you really want to go through with this, you will need at least 250mW and probably closer to 500mW. Lighting cigarettes has been done but you will need to hold it exactly at the focal point of a focused laser for ten seconds or so. To make this safe you will need some heavy duty eye protection which will filter out all the light (Aka you won't see the action).
Laser diodes are extremely easy to destroy and are generally run from a current regulating LM317 circuit or similar. All the aixiz modules already have a power supply and just need a few batteries.
In my opinion, a far better method is just to stick a cheap red laser into a lighter with a very dim flame and make it look like the laser is doing the work. There will be enough smoke for the laser to look impressive and you will actually be able to watch it light.