{"id":4135,"date":"2018-12-12T17:34:16","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T01:34:16","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"4135","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/4135","title":{"rendered":"Can you trigger a photogate with a green laser?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes. We have tested this with the <a href=\"\/product\/green-diffraction-laser\/\">Green Diffraction Laser<\/a> (<nobr>GDL-DAK<\/nobr>) and it effectively activates the photogate&#8217;s photo-transistor. <\/p>\n<p>A Class 2 laser is generally considered safe as the blink reflex will limit exposure to short time periods. Direct exposure (by direct or reflected light) on the eye by a beam of laser light should always be avoided with any laser, no matter how low the power. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/til\/1422\/\">Vernier Photogate (VPG-BTD) Troubleshooting and FAQs<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/til\/4197\/\">Go Direct Photogate Troubleshooting and FAQs<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes. We have tested this with the and it effectively activates the photogate&#8217;s photo-transistor. A Class 2 laser is generally considered safe as the blink&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1698,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[6957,3786,1287,491,380],"class_list":["post-4135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-external-gate","tag-gdx-vpg","tag-laser-gate","tag-photogate","tag-vpg"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1698"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}