The RPL-Blue 30mW video

I promised Medussa I would get this one done today, so here it is.
I'm not shaking there in the beginning, it must be the focusing or something.
Well, maybe it was me just a little, I didn't have my usual coffee this morning

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Jack

Dude best video every with seeing the output of a laser. CAN you light a match with it. i definalty know it will pop a baloon omg. someone should post this on the LC with the price im amazed by that.

Nice video bootleg2go, where did you get that laser power checker and how much?

wowww thats one powerful blue laser

It almost makes me want to cry it's so sweet....

thats outstanding BLUE hand-held !!!!!!!!!!!!
Congrats!!

On that vid it peaked at 78mW! You could possibly pull off a match light with that!

Very nice laser.  If only it were in my price range  .  All I have is $1278 and the RPL blue is $1279.   Wait.  I mean all I have $127.80, LOL!!!
 
   

I MUST have that laser ! Dang...that is a nice piece of work, Jack...I absolutely love it !

G !

cool! ;D was a bit up and down at the start hen it just started climbing!

Very nice laser, Jack.

Jase

Vegeta said:

Nice video bootleg2go, where did you get that laser power checker and how much?

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Hi Vegeta,
It's a Coherent fieldmaster GS.
The meter itself cost $1700 US and the thermal head is a model LM-3 HTD that costs $900 US, so the full price is $2600.

When I 1st started Optotronics, I got a lasercheck, but realized their accuracy is pretty limited since they use a silicon based sensor which is very sensitive to IR and they only report peak values, which can be deceiving.

I found that out the hard way.
I sold a laser to a company who was working on getting a large military contract.
I had tested his laser with a lasercheck many times and sold it at the power level the lasercheck reported. When they received the laser I got a call that output was only 180mW average and they required 200mW minimum for their project and they had to demo it to the military the next afternoon.
To make sure they got one which met their requirements, I told them to ship me back the laser and I would cross ship them 2 lasers by overnight fedex to make sure they could do the demo.

When I got the laser returned, the meter and head were packaged with it along with a note to test everything I ship them with this meter. (way cool!).
After using it for several months, they offered to trade it to me for an additional laser.

In the end, I traded 3 very nice portable lasers for it and now it's my most important tool. Now my eye's on a good beam profiler.

Jack

FWIW i just got an awesome spiricon LBA beam analyzer.

http://www.spiricon.com/firewire/index.shtml

right around $3k. I think that was edu pricing though.

Jack... That is AMAZING!! Ok... so... hold that laser for me then I'll go sell the car in the mean time. :

Thermal meters are honestly the way to go for professional and reliable readings. I would like to know where to get an anti-reflective coating like the one used on thermal heads. No luck thus far though... :-/

@ Aseras... You are one lucky son of a gun! I am TOO jealous... That is quite the 'tool' you got there...

--DDL