Wicked lasers 1 watt green...

Yeah can you believe that i still dont have my artic which i ordered in June and have allready received my spartan and have a 1.2 445 on the way !!!

The GOOD that will come of this is that by January of 2011, it'll prompt the other more reputable companies with better quality products to start sourcing 500mW+ 532's that the more knowledgeable can buy instead.

Although even at $200 for >500mW I might hold onto my money. I've got a big hunch that we'll see 1W 53Xnm single stage direct inject diodes by 2012, because of the demand from the video projector market.

Dave was saying something that the reasons green lasers have been coming down in price was because a cheap green diode might hit the scene. It will more than likely multimode, but who cares. 1W green!!! Muhhahahahaha

Name: S3 Series
FDA Accession No.: 0920211-000
Size: 228mm x 35.8mm
Weight: 378g
Wavelength: 445nm
Laser Body: 6061-T6 Aircraft-Grade Aluminum
Laser Finish: Mil-Spec Type III hard anodized in black
Transverse Mode: TEM00
Max Power: 1000mW
Min Power: 500mW
Beam Divergence: <1.5mRad
Beam Diameter: <2.5 mm @ aperture
NOHD* 211 meters
Required Eyewear O.D. 3.0+
Power Consumption: 3.7V @ 1A
Power supply: Rechargeable Lithium Ion Battery Type 18650 (batteries and charger included)
Battery Lifetime: 120 mins
Switch: Push Button Constant On / Off, Lock-Out Tail Cap, Electronic Mode switch
Mode: Low and High Power modes, Pulsed and Constant Wave modes, Secure Lock/Unlock modes
Duty Cycle: Continuous
Expected lifetime: >5,000 hours
Warranty: 3 months

*The NOHDs were calculated based on a 0.25 second accidental (unaided eye) exposure.

I thought that the green S3 was only 300mw, I could sware when I ordered my Arctic that the green was advertised as 300mw, I could be wrong!:thinking:
Ship date 11/1 of what year? OUCH!

That will be something.

Wonder if they will get the threads right, include a decent battery, give real specs, etc... Piss on WL.

Tech_Junkie said:

Dave was saying something that the reasons green lasers have been coming down in price was because a cheap green diode might hit the scene. It will more than likely multimode, but who cares. 1W green!!! Muhhahahahaha

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Hi TJ,
Being on the wholesale end of things, I would have to disagree with Dave. I haven't seen prices on the wholesale market drop more than 5% to 10% at most in the past year.
Most of the very low prices have been from the chinese retailers who are dumping junk product and from WL and others who had sale prices that had fixed profit margins of upwards of 400%. They lost market share to those retailers dumping junk stuff and in turn reduced their profit margins by 1/2 or more.
I don't think direct inject green diodes (non DPSS) will have any affect on green pointer pricing until they are actually available, which looks to be 12 to 18 months out before high power ones are available. When the direct-inject diodes do come to market, like you mentioned, they will be multimode and they will have terrible beam quality (rectangular beam with large divergence). They will be great for those who are just interested in "burning things", but they won't have long distance burning ability like a high powered DPSS because of their large divergence.
I think burning stuff with a laser is a short lived novelty (at least it was with me), it's much cheap to just by a magnifying glass and more effective...Or in my case, I picked up a 36"x24" fresnel lens for ~$25 and I can melt a hole through a pop can in seconds as well as melt holes in the asphalt street, now that's fun! a lens that concentrates the light from the sun so much it melts and vaporizes aluminum.