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Old 02-11-2011, 02:31 AM
julian265 julian265 is offline
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Originally Posted by MadBlaster View Post
@julian

Please go back and re-read. Talking about high-output infrared LED that produces invisible light that your eye can not see. I really don't think it is a good idea to be staring at this for hour and hours. It just isn't worth the risk. Use a high output non-infrared LED for this type of setup.
There is no need for high-output IR LEDs for this purpose. Thinking it isn't a good idea is different to there being actual risk of eye damage.

A quick search found this:
http://www.axis.com/products/cam_iri...Red_011107.pdf
Which is a product that emits many times more power than the small IR LED's for our purpose.

Of course, if you can find documentation stating that there is a risk from looking at a 0.1W IR LED, then I'd be interested to see it.
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