Is a DVD laser orange/amber?
Someone tossed an old DVD player in the bins at the flats, so I decided to investigate its salvage potential, the laser is a proper-job TO18 style pressed into a block of aluminium - seems a bit extravegant since it was only a player, not a recorder.
There's some websites out there demonstrating lighting matches & burning holes through paper with a DVD laser, but I presume they're using a recorder laser for that much power.
Before I start waving the soldering iron at it - can anyone suggest a "ball-park figure" for laseing current?
Thanks.