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Advice on Dealextreme.com laser pointers

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Does anyone consider them trust worthy? they have excellent prices from what it looks but I'm wondering about the duty cycle /longevity. Thanks for your time everyone.
 





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they are extremely good deals and have a good power/price ratio, but the quality is questionable. The output power will vary a lot(for the high powered models), and are quite fragile. but if you just want one to play with, they're great.
 
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paperboy421 said:
they are extremely good deals and have a good power/price ratio, but the quality is questionable. The output power will vary a lot(for the high powered models), and are quite fragile. but if you just want one to play with, they're great.
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Thanks a bunch for the information everyone! that really helps, although, I've heard of them being fragile before, I guess that doesn't really have to do with poor circuitry but rather, fragile product all together? as in, "not durable?"
 
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paperboy421

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well i don't know about the circuits but the clip it comes with keeps coming off(at least for mine it does), but a bit of superglue will do the trick. the button feels kinda low quality.
 
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I'll let you know soon. I've got one on the way. On Friday 9/21 I received this from DX:
Your order has been shipped from the fulfillment center. It should be received within 10-14 days.
We'll see...so far tracking #s don't show up on USPS yet. In the past with other China airmail as soon as the package gets into US through customs the tracking # starts working in the USPS system. Same thing when I've ordered satellite stuff from Canada long ago...
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from what i've heard, you'll get the stated mW on 50mW or below, but not on anything higher, from DX, and the higher ones have a lot of IR.
 
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Have fun with it while it lasts... mine worked for about 2 weeks, which seems to be a record compared to other's 2 day "brick" sticks..
 
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anyone else been having trouble with Dealextreme 's website?
for me it's been down nearly 16 hours... which is pretty long for the web...
 
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dynamicvelocity said:
anyone else been having trouble with Dealextreme 's website?
for me it's been down nearly 16 hours... which is pretty long for the web...
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Nope, works fine for me. Try clearing your browsers cache, see if that helps.
 
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nah - i was trying it from home on my ISP, and this morning trying it from work on their ISP produces the same result (timeouts) - across multiple browsers. i figure it must be a DNS server in australia is failing or something. - can someone resolve the ip address of 'dealextreme.com' for me? pretty please?
 
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looks like i spoke too soon -

ping dealextreme.com

Pinging dealextreme.com [69.64.68.130] with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 69.64.68.130:
   Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),
 
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marianne said:
from what i've heard, you'll get the stated mW on 50mW or below, but not on anything higher, from DX, and the higher ones have a lot of IR.
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The manufacturer claims a "50mW" will put out 38-48mW of 532nm. I don't know about higher power ones.

@ the OP: You're correct, the DX units are more fragile physically. "Not durable" is a great way to put it. No green DPSS laser will be very durable by the nature of a DPSS laser, but the DX lasers in particular are very low quality.

Basically, they're cheap lasers. The price per mW is amazingly cheap and so is the build quality.
 
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still can't get through to DX even though DNS servers are providing an IP... is anyone else in australia having problems logging onto dealextreme.com?

according to traceroute services, there's a firewall blocking return information to the last 2 or more ip numbers
 
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well, this is interesting...I can sorta get through to DX, but only on the second try (both with ie and ff). Ping gives me nothing.



well, nah, now it works fine!
 
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