heres mine, Yeah it may not be particulary useful but it is a nice gesture

*sigh* Ahhh, wicked lasers. I was one of poor souls that waited many months for the Arctic.

at least they are sending different pics
cant believe they are doing all this for good rep on LPM
better for us i suppose
and i know this is late, but RHD, you deserved that $10 coupon and more

Mine just arrived in the mail

Was 7 days on the dot travel time.

First impressions: Love the host. You pick it up, and you'd just as much want to use it as a club as a laser

Packaging was very good, box was in great shape, and the declaration value was 75$.

Love the double safety features, the shutter, and the keys.

Charging my 18650 now, and will post back with details. Everything seems to be very good for now

Edit: There is something "jiggling" at the top of the laser if you shake it. It looks like its the shutter, just a tiny nitpick. I guess I can't use it as a club now.

Don't have an LPM so... will have to be a subjective post!

Cheers!

Nice. Thanks for the update.

Exciting!

I'm not sure if I really adequately described the "substantiality" aspect of this laser in my review. But it's definitely not some thin aluminum host. This is a very solid bodied laser.

Have the powered it up? Even with a not-fully-charged 18650 ?

Can't wait to get mine... eventually

Thanks for the picture updates.

@bobo99 - Nice knife. I like my own crkt a lot for camping although I can't stand the newer lock mechanisms with a spring.

Not yet... although I am "itching" now. Its been charging for about 30 minutes now... sadly my first 18650
How long should would a full charge take? - ah hell, lemme go make some pictures brb

Alright here are some beam shots and dot shots

Unfortunately I don't have ANY LPM'd lasers, only their "reported power".

One is the recent group buy waterproof 100mW green, and the other is an overspec green pen from swimsurfer.

The beam is clearly visible even in a lightly lit room .
I'd say at least three times brighter than the 100mW green, whose beam I can't see at all, unless its a dark room.

Divergence is "poor", however I like the fat beam, it gives it more of a statement.

As I said, purely subjective, but there you have it!

(this was all done with a 18650 charged for <30 min)

(the order of dots are from left>right, 300 mW firedragon, 100mW green, unknown overspec green)

Thanks for the knife too! Very compact, definitely one of my favorites. The locking mechanism is a pain. Its got the little red knob, and the inside spring metal. I give it to my guests sometimes, and it usually takes >30 seconds to figure out how to close it - haha

Looks fairly similar to my JetLasers pl-C. Tough to tell for sure.
Thanks for the shots.

Sweet

Thats some pretty quick shipping

Thanks for the post back, Im even more anxious than before

To make all your waits a little tougher...

Survival laser, with the new firedragon. One of the pics has the 100mW 532, but its overwhelmed.

I've learned a new method for taking pictures of lasers. Take 100 pictures, and have 10 succeed, delete the rest.

Also had a survival laser accident :$, accidentally it was PERFECTLY focused on one of those generic laptop bags, 16 feet away. The bag started melting... sweet.

The run time on the firedragon is great. I ran both the survival and firedragon for about 2 minutes. The survival needed a break, but this one was "warm" but felt like it could keep going for a while.

Things I learned:
How to take pictures of lasers.
Lasers need proper heat sinking to be fun.
Lasers roll on tables.

Cheers!

My step dad just got his and we did his after mine, so I guess mine was probably delivered also. That's 2/3 of mine, orders were placed on the 9th.

I'm thinking I missed mine, the wife came home to the little note on the door :/

Hopefully it is what I think and I get out of work early enough to hit the post office

Yeah I gotta note also, will pick it up tomorrow. I have a wedding in the afternoon, but I should be able to meter it in the evening.

The wife went and picked mine up so I have some 18650 charging now

I got around to metering mine this morning, It peaked at 393mW, stablized around 360mW and has about 19mW of IR leak

This Laser is an absolute beast to hold, its size an weight compliment its nice green beam even though my wife says it refelects ceratin anatomy lol...

Got mine now just no time to open it up. I'll get it metered and some pics this evening.

OK, here it is. Using a Sanyo cell from LarryDFW

I'm REALLY happy to see how this is all shaping up

Very cool - really glad that so far we're seeing really good results!

I cant wait to get home tomorrow as am sure there is a package waiting for me at the post office. I will report my results as well.

There going to be a second round to this?

400mw of 532nm for 150$ ? Thats the best price ever !

I am topping off one of my sony cells before I meter this thing but I have to say my first impressions are all good.

The construction is amazing. Smooth threads, unbelievably solid feel, nice key lock, light up button, smooth shutter, everything looks better than I expected from a chinese drop shipper like dinodirect.

The beam is fat but I kind of like it as it looks more menacing than the hair line beam of my other 532nm pointers.

Using a 150mW+ metered pen as reference this does look brighter even in my semi lit room. This is also using the supplied battery right out of the box with no extra charging. I think it may perform better with a full premium cell. (will meter it shortly).

Assuming this comes in at around 300mW with negligible IR I will have to give Dinodirect a ***** 5 star rating for this transaction.

$149 for 300mW 532nm + great host + charger + battery + EMS shipping....nothing else needs to be said.

I came home from SELEM to find this laser waiting for me, cheered me up just a little

I'm actually pretty surprised, the quality is better than I was expecting. I love the fat beam and the divergence could probably be fixed with a little tweaking to the last focusing lens. It is slightly unstable, but only the power output. I haven't seen it mode hop yet.

They're somewhat focusable too, if you don't mind the entire head being loose. You can unthread the entire front half without doing any damage to anything but the sticker. The head does sort of flop around unless it is threaded all the way in though.

Thanks for organizing this one RHD!

Are you still planning on extracting the module out?