Red Laser safe for eyes?

[mikestuewe]

Is the red laser on the skytrak safe for our eyes?

I know we aren’t typically looking at the laser, but sometimes it reflects off the club head. This is especially the case with wedges, where the recommendation is to put the ball in front of the dot, leaving the high lofted wedge face on the dot, reflecting upward toward my eyeballs.

[StanMI]

I have no idea what the correct answer is, but if it were me....... no way would I have that reflecting back up in my eyes !!

Having said that, I had my Skytrak for over a year before I switched to the GC2. I never had any great success with moving the ball in different places to get better reads. That just never made a difference for me. What did make a difference was the ball. I used the Red and White Truvis and had very few no reads. Others will say the ball will leave marks on your screen, I never had that happen. Seth posted on how that ball makes no difference because the cameras are infa red (probably didn't spell that right). For me, I got the least amount of no reads and the best results with that ball.

YRMV

[jrz]

No. Any kind of laser is not safe for your eyes.

[Dan McWhirter]

It ain't the red lasers you might worry about. Look at your original box, it specifies both red and green lasers. I always wondered, where the hell are these green lasers?

[Dan McWhirter]

Put another way...I saw nothing in the patent about the frequency spectrum of the lasers.

[Ronsc1985]

Instead of idle speculation try reading this link. http://lasersafetyfacts.com/laserclasses.html

[SkyTrak_Seth]

The laser certification is on the bottom of the unit - in the US, the SkyTrak unit uses a Class 3R laser. Thanks Ronsc1985 for the great link! Like the article says, unintentional direct exposure carries low risk but don't make a practice of beaming it directly into your eye on purpose.