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So a while ago I placed an order for a ~70mW blu-ray from IgorT. What I got was a 100mW+ beast of a blu-ray! Here's the thread.
I've taken a week to fully try this baby out. Too many times have I posted a positive review too early and then it breaks soon after. You may notice that I like to do my reviews in point form. Don't like it? Tough. =P
But no! This thing is still going fine and I've used it for about 3 hours total burning things, fooling with the beam and other stuff.
This thing is built into a Romisen flashlight, and runs off a AA-sized 14500 li-ion battery. Here's the ones I bought.
Here's what I got out of it in the first 10 minutes.
It has awesome fit and finish, feels smooth and heavy, all the lines match up.
There's NO jiggling or anything!
I love the head-cap for pocketing without worry of smudging your lens.
Beautiful and innovative design - so solid and great to look at and touch ^_^
About the wavelength and power itself:
Burns better than my dilda - which is twice the output!
You can get so many colours on different surfaces! so far: 488 blue, 473 blue, yellow, orange, green, bluish white... my favourite is the 473 blue which you can get simply by shining it on a normal sheet of paper.
You'd be amazed at how many things fluoresce! point it around a room at night and see what objects stand out!
With the headcap on it works as a flashlight with buckets of flood: lights up a whole room with an alienesque glow
The beam is so beautiful, I could watch it for hours and shine it around.
I believe it's the only wavelength where it's just as fun with 'safety' glasses on! my sunglasses take away the blu and leave only the fluoro! I shined it at my hand with the sunnies on and it was some sort of weird colour between sky blue and white...
He included a line generating lens with the package, as well as some spare caps and a normal LED flashie (which I sort of broke... but no matter, the laser is what's important )
All in all:
Igor has pulled some sort of electronics witchcraft to make this thing. It's truly a masterpiece. He's a delight to talk to and answers all my questions. +1 for businessman-ness.
The laser has awesome heatsinking, the whole body is used as a big heatsink as well as the solid module. You should see how tiny the circuitry is in it
This is my favourite laser. It has won me over with its' awesomeness. Your friends may have seen a red, maybe a green, even a blue. NOBODY I KNOW has ever heard of a violet laser. It burns great too, how freakin' cool is that?!
All in all in all in all:
Awesome build quality and aesthetic value.
Pocketable without lens damage.
Doubles as an alienesque floody flashie.
Burninates like Trogdor.
Holycrapitsawesomegetitnow.
I gotta say, DON'T settle for anything less. Buy a quality product. The laser market is flooded with price one-upmanship, don't cheap out.Let me tell you, this is one hell of a quality product. I know this review is written like an advertisement. But this is because I've had it for a week, and there are no flaws, nothing I am not 100% satisfied with, and I simply love it to bits. You'll love yours to bits as well, I promise.
And here's the crazy part: Igor hasn't even given me the special coated lenses for it! moar power is imminent
PIX TIME :D
Some burning on the tripod + clamp I bought from DX. It was making lots of nice smoke, but it didn't show up on the camera D: The tripod can extend its legs to nearly double the height shown btw.
Random night pics and me attempting to capture fluorescence on camera. That's a FAIL for me.... the camera does it absolutely NO justice at all.
This one's taken through sunnies to make it more obvious. To a human eye it's a nice 473nm colour.
:D
And yes, my Dell computer has Apple stickers on it. =P
I've taken a week to fully try this baby out. Too many times have I posted a positive review too early and then it breaks soon after. You may notice that I like to do my reviews in point form. Don't like it? Tough. =P
But no! This thing is still going fine and I've used it for about 3 hours total burning things, fooling with the beam and other stuff.
This thing is built into a Romisen flashlight, and runs off a AA-sized 14500 li-ion battery. Here's the ones I bought.
Here's what I got out of it in the first 10 minutes.
It has awesome fit and finish, feels smooth and heavy, all the lines match up.
There's NO jiggling or anything!
I love the head-cap for pocketing without worry of smudging your lens.
Beautiful and innovative design - so solid and great to look at and touch ^_^
About the wavelength and power itself:
Burns better than my dilda - which is twice the output!
You can get so many colours on different surfaces! so far: 488 blue, 473 blue, yellow, orange, green, bluish white... my favourite is the 473 blue which you can get simply by shining it on a normal sheet of paper.
You'd be amazed at how many things fluoresce! point it around a room at night and see what objects stand out!
With the headcap on it works as a flashlight with buckets of flood: lights up a whole room with an alienesque glow
The beam is so beautiful, I could watch it for hours and shine it around.
I believe it's the only wavelength where it's just as fun with 'safety' glasses on! my sunglasses take away the blu and leave only the fluoro! I shined it at my hand with the sunnies on and it was some sort of weird colour between sky blue and white...
He included a line generating lens with the package, as well as some spare caps and a normal LED flashie (which I sort of broke... but no matter, the laser is what's important )
All in all:
Igor has pulled some sort of electronics witchcraft to make this thing. It's truly a masterpiece. He's a delight to talk to and answers all my questions. +1 for businessman-ness.
The laser has awesome heatsinking, the whole body is used as a big heatsink as well as the solid module. You should see how tiny the circuitry is in it
This is my favourite laser. It has won me over with its' awesomeness. Your friends may have seen a red, maybe a green, even a blue. NOBODY I KNOW has ever heard of a violet laser. It burns great too, how freakin' cool is that?!
All in all in all in all:
Awesome build quality and aesthetic value.
Pocketable without lens damage.
Doubles as an alienesque floody flashie.
Burninates like Trogdor.
Holycrapitsawesomegetitnow.
I gotta say, DON'T settle for anything less. Buy a quality product. The laser market is flooded with price one-upmanship, don't cheap out.Let me tell you, this is one hell of a quality product. I know this review is written like an advertisement. But this is because I've had it for a week, and there are no flaws, nothing I am not 100% satisfied with, and I simply love it to bits. You'll love yours to bits as well, I promise.
And here's the crazy part: Igor hasn't even given me the special coated lenses for it! moar power is imminent
PIX TIME :D
Some burning on the tripod + clamp I bought from DX. It was making lots of nice smoke, but it didn't show up on the camera D: The tripod can extend its legs to nearly double the height shown btw.
Random night pics and me attempting to capture fluorescence on camera. That's a FAIL for me.... the camera does it absolutely NO justice at all.
This one's taken through sunnies to make it more obvious. To a human eye it's a nice 473nm colour.
:D
And yes, my Dell computer has Apple stickers on it. =P