Looking for a Yellow

VW said:

[quote author=quadcam link=1216627383/0#12 date=1216694229][quote author=VW link=1216627383/0#11 date=1216683067]Anyway, unless you're looking for a laser to just point around, like any old <5mW, you seriously need to be concidering where you put your money. Yellow ain't exactly the cheapest colour on the market so don't expect much for your money.

Imo at the very least, you should be looking at somewhere like DL, who actually took the time to revise and "improve" their product. Can't comment on the Rigel although I do know Laserglow are one of the very best copmpanies in the market. From what I've learned around here, yellow is such an unstable wavelength to be spending on somewhere like techlasers, who for one have probably the worst customer services that at least I've heard of. I think with these kinds of things money really does buy you quality and with such instability a reliable company with good customer service, is imo, a must.

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DL didn't do anything to improve their yellow. They're a distributor for the 593nm CNI pen just like Laserglow. :-?

I have a yellow laser for simply pointing, and I love it for that reason and it's color. However, it is extremely unstable. On very, very rare occasions it spikes almost to 5mw green brightness, but it never lasts. When it's in TEM01 it's a good bit brighter than my 635nm pointer but has poor divergence; and when it's TEM00 it's roughly as bright as my 635nm pointer, but has phenomonal divergence. I haven't figured out yet what causes it to change, if anything.

It's variability is quite astounding.[/quote]
DL revised "their" product range by getting rid of the 5mW model and stuck to lower powered, more stable models. If that's not a case of taking something that's wrong and attempting to turn it into something better, I don't know what is...[/quote]

All they did was stop advertising something that doesn't exist. CNI doesn't make pen yellows that average 5mW, where was DL getting them? It was false advertising.

quadcam said:

[quote author=VW link=1216627383/0#17 date=1216845159][quote author=quadcam link=1216627383/0#12 date=1216694229][quote author=VW link=1216627383/0#11 date=1216683067]Anyway, unless you're looking for a laser to just point around, like any old <5mW, you seriously need to be concidering where you put your money.  Yellow ain't exactly the cheapest colour on the market so don't expect much for your money.  

Imo at the very least, you should be looking at somewhere like DL, who actually took the time to revise and "improve" their product.  Can't comment on the Rigel although I do know Laserglow are one of the very best copmpanies in the market.  From what I've learned around here, yellow is such an unstable wavelength to be spending on somewhere like techlasers, who for one have probably the worst customer services that at least I've heard of.  I think with these kinds of things money really does buy you quality and with such instability a reliable company with good customer service, is imo, a must.

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DL didn't do anything to improve their yellow.  They're a distributor for the 593nm CNI pen just like Laserglow.  :-?

I have a yellow laser for simply pointing, and I love it for that reason and it's color.  However, it is extremely unstable.  On very, very rare occasions it spikes almost to 5mw green brightness, but it never lasts.  When it's in TEM01 it's a good bit brighter than my 635nm pointer but has poor divergence; and when it's TEM00 it's roughly as bright as my 635nm pointer, but has phenomonal divergence.  I haven't figured out yet what causes it to change, if anything.

It's variability is quite astounding.[/quote]
DL revised "their" product range by getting rid of the 5mW model and stuck to lower powered, more stable models.  If that's not a case of taking something that's wrong and attempting to turn it into something better, I don't know what is...[/quote]

All they did was stop advertising something that doesn't exist.  CNI doesn't make pen yellows that average 5mW, where was DL getting them?  It was false advertising.[/quote]
They altered the pens them selves. Their Spartan is their "own" also, I believe...

No, the DL 5mW 593.5nm was a scam.

In any case, I may have a used Vega around here somewhere but IIRC it was TEM01. Let me know if you're still interested, and I'll go try to hunt down where I left the key.

Rigel yellow laser $299
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