the DT0811 is brighter then the 803T?

Re: Unexpected high power

GooeyGus said:

[quote author=360freak link=1221207656/20#21 date=1221270245]I was just about to post about my new 803T being unusually brighter. It does look actually more blue. I can't compare, but it's from GooeyGus, so he can vouch for this.

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I set this laser to 100mW. I didn't get a chance to see it at night, but from what I observed in my bedroom with the light on, it seemed a lot brighter to me than it should have. I checked the power again, still right around 100mW. When I finished 360freak's laser I didn't have any other blu-rays to compare it to (I am a blu-ray diode serial killer.... I like to give them way to much current and see if they will live... yeah... I'm weird...) but it DID appear to be brighter than it SHOULD have been in a light room at 100mW.[/quote]

When I finished my laser it was in a bright room in the middle of the day and the beam was way more than it should have been.

-hydro15

I wanted to add that I finished my DT0811 build in my sonar case (check out the thread in the multimedia section) and it also appears very bright for being only 70mW. Again I dont have a PHR or 6x to compare it to at the moment, but I'd feel comfortable saying its brighter than my PHR laser was at over 100mW. When I ran a PHR diode at 50mW I struggled to see the beam unless I was staring right down the path of it. But this one is very noticeable.

Oh yeah, any update on the spectrometer PBD?

^I can use it, but I have only a PHR laser, nothing else to test on it.