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Well, the review everyone's been waiting for! The third 561nm review...
This is yet another 20mW rated 561nm built by CNI into a portable.
The host: CNI's classic PGL-III-C.
This laser is only missing the 5-second delay from the standard safety features. I personally like my instant gratification when I push that button in. Apart from that, there's the shutter, on-light, keyswitch and pin.
It takes one 18650 battery (NEVER PUT 2 CR2's IN THIS!)
This host is a monster, compared to your average pen laser this is massive!
As for the color... well it lies directly between 532nm and 589nm. It's neither yellow nor green. It's both, and I still can't decide a color to call it other than chartreuse. It's dead center between those...
As for the laser itself, this is much brighter than I expected it to be. It's not quite as bright as 100mW of 589nm, but it's pretty close! It's such a shame I don't have many “common” lasers to compare brightness to... it's very bright any way you put it.
This laser also is VERY temperature sensitive. This laser likes it cold. I actually had this in the freezer before all of the photos were taken. I'm not kidding.
As a note: when this laser arrived it had a horrible amount of splash in it. Theres a piece of paper aside the module holding it in place right now. Reason for it? The module is sitting inside this thing LOOSE! (the head screws off)
Since the temperature needs to stay cool, this laser has a pretty short duty cycle. I'd say maybe 30-45s on, 2 minutes off. If you go much longer than 45s, it drops straight down to what it's advertised to do, 20mW. Speaking of power, this baby doesn't “like” to be on spec at all
Not bad!!! This seems to be the average LPM run that I see from this laser. When DJNY sent it to me he put it on his ophir head. In most runs, this laser hits the 53-57mW range once it's warmed up.
I've since seen a higher peak of 72mW after some freezer testing. My graph is on a thermopile LPM, imagine what an ophir would've caught this thing doing!
Here's two pics taken of the beam-- first is how it actually looks at night and the second is a long-exposure shot.
Now I'll give you folks what you want, the pics. Special thanks to Trevor for some color correction!
Heh, so here you have it folks, another amazing CNI laser. This time it's a pretty rare wavelength, 561nm. I'd highly recommend buying one of these in a future CNI GB, though I wouldn't expect it to be 200+% overspec like mine.
And so the jealousy begins.....
This is yet another 20mW rated 561nm built by CNI into a portable.
The host: CNI's classic PGL-III-C.
This laser is only missing the 5-second delay from the standard safety features. I personally like my instant gratification when I push that button in. Apart from that, there's the shutter, on-light, keyswitch and pin.
It takes one 18650 battery (NEVER PUT 2 CR2's IN THIS!)
This host is a monster, compared to your average pen laser this is massive!
As for the color... well it lies directly between 532nm and 589nm. It's neither yellow nor green. It's both, and I still can't decide a color to call it other than chartreuse. It's dead center between those...
As for the laser itself, this is much brighter than I expected it to be. It's not quite as bright as 100mW of 589nm, but it's pretty close! It's such a shame I don't have many “common” lasers to compare brightness to... it's very bright any way you put it.
This laser also is VERY temperature sensitive. This laser likes it cold. I actually had this in the freezer before all of the photos were taken. I'm not kidding.
As a note: when this laser arrived it had a horrible amount of splash in it. Theres a piece of paper aside the module holding it in place right now. Reason for it? The module is sitting inside this thing LOOSE! (the head screws off)
Since the temperature needs to stay cool, this laser has a pretty short duty cycle. I'd say maybe 30-45s on, 2 minutes off. If you go much longer than 45s, it drops straight down to what it's advertised to do, 20mW. Speaking of power, this baby doesn't “like” to be on spec at all
Not bad!!! This seems to be the average LPM run that I see from this laser. When DJNY sent it to me he put it on his ophir head. In most runs, this laser hits the 53-57mW range once it's warmed up.
I've since seen a higher peak of 72mW after some freezer testing. My graph is on a thermopile LPM, imagine what an ophir would've caught this thing doing!
Here's two pics taken of the beam-- first is how it actually looks at night and the second is a long-exposure shot.
Now I'll give you folks what you want, the pics. Special thanks to Trevor for some color correction!
Heh, so here you have it folks, another amazing CNI laser. This time it's a pretty rare wavelength, 561nm. I'd highly recommend buying one of these in a future CNI GB, though I wouldn't expect it to be 200+% overspec like mine.
And so the jealousy begins.....
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