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Deal Extreme Professional 10mw CR2 Review

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I finally got my order in about a week ago on this bad boy. I had about 7 other items in this order, and they arrived seperatly in 4 different shipments to my house over the span of a month and a half. Of course, the laser was the last to arrive. Anyway, I dont have pictures of it right now, because unfortunately it stopped working after about 1 hour of use. However, I will say that the first hour I was very impressed. It is a very nice shape and size for a laser, and the clicky-on clicky-off function is very nice indeed. If I had known it was going to die I would have quickly taken some beam shots, because it was putting out a nice looking beam. Smaller initial beam diameter than my Nova X-85, and it seemed to have better divergence as well. As you can tell this is all a qualitative review, because I have no measuring devices. I contacted DX and they said if I ship it back I will receive either a refund or a replacement, and I wouldn't mind a replacement. I'll get back in about 2 months when the replacement shows up ::) to give you guys a more full review with some nice beam shot comparisons to my X-85.

Summary :

Pros -
-Nice size and shape
-Click on/off was very cool
-Beam was tight and nice looking
-Very bright for a 10mw

Cons -
-Stopped working after 1 hour ;)

I would still recomend it, i believe its in the neighborhood of 25 bucks, and you won't be disappointed if you get one that works.

-Dough
 





Benm

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Nice to hear it worked well, if only for an hour... perhaps its just a fluke and they'll ship you a good one on the next run.

Perhaps you could get the 30 mW as a replacement for only a few dollars extra.. i guess it's identical to the 10 mW apart from rated power?

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.7883
 
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i have 2 of those there newwish pointers

disconnected apc red wire on both wil do 30 mw now
and stil going strong after several month
Also both of them have ir filters installed
Rechargeables also help a lot ;)
 
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Actually Benm, i was going to do that, just return it for a refund and pay a couple extra bucks for the 30mw. It looks slightly larger, but a very similar build. Either way, good deal for 30-ish bucks
 




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