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Looks like i've managed to ruin my second 1W Spartan.
2 months ago, I was walking outside with it in my pocket on a really cold night. When I got back inside and decided to use it, I noticed a lot of fuzz around the dot. I emailed DL and asked them what to do, and Frank told me to clean the lens with a trimmed down wet Q-tip, since the lens is very prone to scratching. But before I got his email, I tried to clean it by very lightly dabbing it with a dry Q-tip. I wound up mauling it. The dot was horrible and the beam was worse. Turns out that the fuzz was just condensation, which I removed by putting 2 drops of water on the lens, draining it, then letting it dry.
Today I noticed what look like a little bit of dust appearing in the dot. Since my replacement Spartan's insides are higher up than my first one, I was able to reach and lighty dab at the lens with the lenspen mini pro 2 that came with my Arctic. I thought the soft tip would be safe to use on the lens. I was wrong, and it now seems to be slightly scratched. The beam quality is still good, but the dot is a little bigger now. It's not noticeable without laser shades, but it now takes a few more seconds to smoke my dresser from a little over 7 feet away. I will never again put anything down into my spatan except a miniscule amount of water for cleaning purposes.
Most people wouldn't really notice or care since it hardly affects the dot and performance, doesn't affect the beam quality, and isn't noticeable without looking at the dot from about 7 feet away with laser shades, but my mild OCD makes me care. If my laser isn't operating as efficiently as when I bought it, then in my eyes, it's ruined.
2 months ago, I was walking outside with it in my pocket on a really cold night. When I got back inside and decided to use it, I noticed a lot of fuzz around the dot. I emailed DL and asked them what to do, and Frank told me to clean the lens with a trimmed down wet Q-tip, since the lens is very prone to scratching. But before I got his email, I tried to clean it by very lightly dabbing it with a dry Q-tip. I wound up mauling it. The dot was horrible and the beam was worse. Turns out that the fuzz was just condensation, which I removed by putting 2 drops of water on the lens, draining it, then letting it dry.
Today I noticed what look like a little bit of dust appearing in the dot. Since my replacement Spartan's insides are higher up than my first one, I was able to reach and lighty dab at the lens with the lenspen mini pro 2 that came with my Arctic. I thought the soft tip would be safe to use on the lens. I was wrong, and it now seems to be slightly scratched. The beam quality is still good, but the dot is a little bigger now. It's not noticeable without laser shades, but it now takes a few more seconds to smoke my dresser from a little over 7 feet away. I will never again put anything down into my spatan except a miniscule amount of water for cleaning purposes.
Most people wouldn't really notice or care since it hardly affects the dot and performance, doesn't affect the beam quality, and isn't noticeable without looking at the dot from about 7 feet away with laser shades, but my mild OCD makes me care. If my laser isn't operating as efficiently as when I bought it, then in my eyes, it's ruined.