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Well,
My birthday is next week(November 4th) and my 100mW 532nm CNI labby should be here tomorrow, so I consider it a birthday gift to myself :beer:
One tip I would like to give, which im sure most of you know is that labbies are a whooooole other ballpark in terms of price. Sure, some diodes are expensive, and even argons can be several hundreds but many labbies won't become realistic until you hit the $1,000's. My first labby, a 655 100mW red was $260, and the coming in 532 is $360. Next planned is a 100mW of 447 which runs $450, and yellows cost $1,000's+ for a few 10's of mW's!
Im sure this is just repeating what many know, but if anyone is interested in collecting new labbies(like me), ya better have some Franklin's in the bank
-Alex
My birthday is next week(November 4th) and my 100mW 532nm CNI labby should be here tomorrow, so I consider it a birthday gift to myself :beer:
One tip I would like to give, which im sure most of you know is that labbies are a whooooole other ballpark in terms of price. Sure, some diodes are expensive, and even argons can be several hundreds but many labbies won't become realistic until you hit the $1,000's. My first labby, a 655 100mW red was $260, and the coming in 532 is $360. Next planned is a 100mW of 447 which runs $450, and yellows cost $1,000's+ for a few 10's of mW's!
Im sure this is just repeating what many know, but if anyone is interested in collecting new labbies(like me), ya better have some Franklin's in the bank
-Alex