I bought a 1W ultraviolet laser pointer and thought it was cool, but disappointed with how dim it was. Then it destroyed the CCD in a digital camera after a br

I bought a 1W ultraviolet laser pointer and thought it was cool, but disappointed with how dim it was. Then it destroyed the CCD in a digital camera after a brief exposure, and I threw that shit away because it dawned on me that it was 200x more powerful than my 5mw red laser, and 99%+ of the light was invisible and that I was playing with something extremely dangerous. It should have been obvious from how quickly the batteries drained, or how much heat I could feel from the beam, or how bright that dot looked when I pointed it at something UV-reactive.