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Heya guys, the review is for this product: http://rayfoss.com/productn.asp?ArticleID=34
16/05/10 The laser I received had no led. I suspect this model is not exactly the one I received but a similar one. However, this one seems to have a worse divergence, in the order of 2mRad. Contact Silvershot or check for more reviews of this product with LED for more info about the specific model you're probably going to receive. Faona, however, told me that users could ask for the no-led version if they wanted to.
Here I go.
As you know I've been around here for some months and after owning some of the dealextreme green laser pointers, the dilda, and a phr, I had tested all the colors available for a poor man, so I decided to do my final buy.
Honestly, the red color is kinda boring, this color is available for 2$ in dealextreme, and the beam is nothing compared to any green laser. The burning power is good, but the phr was doing the same, so I finally sold the dilda.
The phr amazed me more for the fluorescence than for anything else, the burning power is OK and the beam is really poor, as well as the range, a 5mW red pointer reach further. the color is cool, but I got bored of it at the end, si I sold it recently to a member of the forum.
The dealextreme pens are great if you have never seen a green beam, but at the end they can't burn, they eat the batteries as hell and the button always gets bitchy.
At this point, I wanted something with a long range, an amazing beam and an amazing burning power, and a high powered green seemed to be the only option. And here I started to look for a 200mW~ green laser. Dealextreme and focalprice got discarded since the first moment, and optotronics and similars had really high prices, not to mention the 1000$ WL were asking...
So , rayfoss and O-like caught my attention, specially the unit that I finally purchased. I liked it since the first moment and when I had almost decided its buy, some reviews from other members stopped me. They reported bad divergence, and that the laser had started mode hoping at the second day. This really scared me, and I mailed Faona about it. This was the reply:
and...
And well, as the offer was really really attractive, I couldn't resist and bought it. I didn't have to pay shipping because I ordered it together with a 150mW waterproof green laser for a friend (which btw, is great, but I won't review it since I haven't used it for that long).
Two days later I got the shipment confirmation and a week later the package arrived.
The first surprise was that it was way smaller than I thought, also, it had a safety lock with key instead the safety pin advertised and it didn't had a led like shown on the photos, but after this minor surprise, I looked at the instructions (crappy English btw) and after looking at how the battery should be inserted I opened the shutter, turned the key and pressed the button and WOAH lol this thing is damn powerful. My eyes really suffered when looked at the dot on a white wall, so I went to pick the protective goggles from Focalprice and some matches and omg, again i was astonished, it ignited them faster than the dildas or the phr, when well focused the matches get lighted just at-the-touch.
The laser feels solid and heavy, the battery lasts for so long, and I have the impression it has a proper driver since the power doesn't seem to get down as the battery drops. Also, the focusing ring is really nice and solid. I also told Faona that I wanted a unit with good divergence, and lol, this one rocks, around 1 mrad~
At ten meters, the beam diameter is not a perfect circle and I don't know if I should measure it all or just the brightest part, but measuring the brightest part at the shortest distance gives you a 9mm dot, if you get the big one of the full dot it's 13mm, in every case it's a 1mrad~, which is really really good.
The dimensions are this ones.
Full lenght: 15,8 cm
Head diameter: 2,9 cm
Body diameter: 2,2 cm
According to Faona, who tested the power with and without IR filter, this laser performs like this:
I've waited for almost 2 weeks of daily use to make sure it didn't mode hope or something, but until now it has performed perfectly, and I'm really pleased with it. Dealing with www.rayfoss.com was always easy, and Faona is a really kind girl. She even sent me an adaptor for free so I could charge it on the European plug. All in all, I would recommend this laser to every laser enthusiast that is willing to get his first serious laser.
Some photos here:
http://img12.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=134056.jpg
(the beam photos are one of the beam of this laser, one of the beam of a DX true 50 and another of the two beams together)
And a crappy video review here:
For the ones interested in the tripod: http://laserpointerforums.com/f52/dealextreme-tripod-clamp-100-usefull-laser-holding-40701.html
Thanks for reading and watching.
Yours,
Albert
16/05/10 The laser I received had no led. I suspect this model is not exactly the one I received but a similar one. However, this one seems to have a worse divergence, in the order of 2mRad. Contact Silvershot or check for more reviews of this product with LED for more info about the specific model you're probably going to receive. Faona, however, told me that users could ask for the no-led version if they wanted to.
Here I go.
As you know I've been around here for some months and after owning some of the dealextreme green laser pointers, the dilda, and a phr, I had tested all the colors available for a poor man, so I decided to do my final buy.
Honestly, the red color is kinda boring, this color is available for 2$ in dealextreme, and the beam is nothing compared to any green laser. The burning power is good, but the phr was doing the same, so I finally sold the dilda.
The phr amazed me more for the fluorescence than for anything else, the burning power is OK and the beam is really poor, as well as the range, a 5mW red pointer reach further. the color is cool, but I got bored of it at the end, si I sold it recently to a member of the forum.
The dealextreme pens are great if you have never seen a green beam, but at the end they can't burn, they eat the batteries as hell and the button always gets bitchy.
At this point, I wanted something with a long range, an amazing beam and an amazing burning power, and a high powered green seemed to be the only option. And here I started to look for a 200mW~ green laser. Dealextreme and focalprice got discarded since the first moment, and optotronics and similars had really high prices, not to mention the 1000$ WL were asking...
So , rayfoss and O-like caught my attention, specially the unit that I finally purchased. I liked it since the first moment and when I had almost decided its buy, some reviews from other members stopped me. They reported bad divergence, and that the laser had started mode hoping at the second day. This really scared me, and I mailed Faona about it. This was the reply:
and...
And well, as the offer was really really attractive, I couldn't resist and bought it. I didn't have to pay shipping because I ordered it together with a 150mW waterproof green laser for a friend (which btw, is great, but I won't review it since I haven't used it for that long).
Two days later I got the shipment confirmation and a week later the package arrived.
The first surprise was that it was way smaller than I thought, also, it had a safety lock with key instead the safety pin advertised and it didn't had a led like shown on the photos, but after this minor surprise, I looked at the instructions (crappy English btw) and after looking at how the battery should be inserted I opened the shutter, turned the key and pressed the button and WOAH lol this thing is damn powerful. My eyes really suffered when looked at the dot on a white wall, so I went to pick the protective goggles from Focalprice and some matches and omg, again i was astonished, it ignited them faster than the dildas or the phr, when well focused the matches get lighted just at-the-touch.
The laser feels solid and heavy, the battery lasts for so long, and I have the impression it has a proper driver since the power doesn't seem to get down as the battery drops. Also, the focusing ring is really nice and solid. I also told Faona that I wanted a unit with good divergence, and lol, this one rocks, around 1 mrad~
At ten meters, the beam diameter is not a perfect circle and I don't know if I should measure it all or just the brightest part, but measuring the brightest part at the shortest distance gives you a 9mm dot, if you get the big one of the full dot it's 13mm, in every case it's a 1mrad~, which is really really good.
The dimensions are this ones.
Full lenght: 15,8 cm
Head diameter: 2,9 cm
Body diameter: 2,2 cm
According to Faona, who tested the power with and without IR filter, this laser performs like this:
I've waited for almost 2 weeks of daily use to make sure it didn't mode hope or something, but until now it has performed perfectly, and I'm really pleased with it. Dealing with www.rayfoss.com was always easy, and Faona is a really kind girl. She even sent me an adaptor for free so I could charge it on the European plug. All in all, I would recommend this laser to every laser enthusiast that is willing to get his first serious laser.
Some photos here:
http://img12.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=134056.jpg
(the beam photos are one of the beam of this laser, one of the beam of a DX true 50 and another of the two beams together)
And a crappy video review here:
For the ones interested in the tripod: http://laserpointerforums.com/f52/dealextreme-tripod-clamp-100-usefull-laser-holding-40701.html
Thanks for reading and watching.
Yours,
Albert
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