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OK so here wel go, this will be my mini review of the IQS Deluxe #200 532nm PCL Style host Laser.
This is an excellent Laser considering its cost, and ease of access.
First Some pictures:
Looks like a nice brass heatsink on the diode, looks like the lens was glued onto the diode window with a white substance.
Now onto the Beamshots:
Very nice and solid beams.
This is a filtered shot of the "Dot" on a wall, provided for your viewing pleasure.
I provided another dot from another IQS laser for comparison. The #200 dot is on the left and the right is my IQS $8 pen pointer. You can observe that the #200's Dot is quite peculiar. It seels to have a rather large rectangular shaped artifact next to the laser's beam, and then everthing is inside a projected "circle". Whether the recangular artifact is part of the beam or not I can't say, if it is, then this laser does not operate in TEM00. However I have a feeling that its just an artifact and the dot is where the vast majority of the laser's output lies. The problem here is that while powerful, it doesn't seem that 100% of the laser's light is making through the aperture window. More analysis is needed, I need to cover the rectangular artifact up while shining it on the thermopile and observe if the total output decreases significantly.
And last but not least, the famous LPM Charts:
This laser was tested using an AW RCR-123A, fresh off the Pila charger putting out exactly 4.20v.
As you can see the #200 performs very nicely. It peaks at 201mW and stays there for a good 13 secs, and then averages ~185mW after stabilization. It has about a 90-120 sec duty cycle. Its outputting about 15% IR, which is excellent.
Overall your paying $0.50 per Mw of 532 output, and its a very good deal. I'm sure this puppy can pump out more, but tweaking is needed, maybe another battery.
Thats it for now, I'll run some more tests and report back.
Regards,
Sal
This is an excellent Laser considering its cost, and ease of access.
First Some pictures:
Looks like a nice brass heatsink on the diode, looks like the lens was glued onto the diode window with a white substance.
Now onto the Beamshots:
Very nice and solid beams.
This is a filtered shot of the "Dot" on a wall, provided for your viewing pleasure.
I provided another dot from another IQS laser for comparison. The #200 dot is on the left and the right is my IQS $8 pen pointer. You can observe that the #200's Dot is quite peculiar. It seels to have a rather large rectangular shaped artifact next to the laser's beam, and then everthing is inside a projected "circle". Whether the recangular artifact is part of the beam or not I can't say, if it is, then this laser does not operate in TEM00. However I have a feeling that its just an artifact and the dot is where the vast majority of the laser's output lies. The problem here is that while powerful, it doesn't seem that 100% of the laser's light is making through the aperture window. More analysis is needed, I need to cover the rectangular artifact up while shining it on the thermopile and observe if the total output decreases significantly.
And last but not least, the famous LPM Charts:
This laser was tested using an AW RCR-123A, fresh off the Pila charger putting out exactly 4.20v.
As you can see the #200 performs very nicely. It peaks at 201mW and stays there for a good 13 secs, and then averages ~185mW after stabilization. It has about a 90-120 sec duty cycle. Its outputting about 15% IR, which is excellent.
Overall your paying $0.50 per Mw of 532 output, and its a very good deal. I'm sure this puppy can pump out more, but tweaking is needed, maybe another battery.
Thats it for now, I'll run some more tests and report back.
Regards,
Sal
