No idea which forum category this belongs to: Arctic Phosforce

[ryansoh3]

Just another Wicked Lasers' "innovation"

Introducing the Arctic Phosforce!

This attachment goes in front of your Arctic 445nm laser and turns it into a... well, flashlight.

It's apparently "one of the most powerful and efficient portable flashlights in the world."

They also claim that "The resulting light source is incredibly powerful and completely eyesafe."

It's only $79.95, and you can check it out here: Phosforce | Phosphor Laser Flashlight Attachment for Arctic | Wicked Lasers

I'm at a loss of words for this bullcrap. :banghead:

What do you guys think? :wave:

 

[IsaacT]

This revolutionary technology is only available using the power of the Arctic.

Orly? Your photons must be so much better than all the other photons if your can do this and the other ones can't! Weird, I don't recall seeing brand-specific formulas in my physics textbook :thinking:

The Phosforce puts out up to 500 lumens, making it one of the most powerful and efficient portable flashlights in the world.

Yea...now you claim the most powerful FLASHLIGHT in the world?! You love claiming things, huh WL?

 

[daguin]

It's not a flashlight
It's a glow stick

Peace,
dave

 

[ryansoh3]

Yup, a $300 + $80 glow stick.

 

[scumbagatheist]

500 lumens: the most powerful flashlight in the world? I can think of a lot of XM-L folks who are going to be very disappointed.

WL is genius about ONE thing....Separating idiots from their money.

 

[Cyparagon]

According to the CIE tables, the most you could possibly get out of that thing is 800lm, and that's assuming 1.25W of 445nm 100% conversion to 555nm and 100% reflector efficiency. According to wikipedia, an "ideal 5800 K black-body, truncated to 400–700 nm (ideal white source)" is roughly 37% of 555nm light. So again, if the phosphor and reflector are 100% efficient, I don't see how you're getting more than 300 lumens out of this thing.

 

[ARG]

WL testing facility: Ehhhh, looks to be about 800lm.

Their marketing team in ruthless.

 

[scumbagatheist]

You mean this isn't the WL testing facility??

 

[BShanahan14rulz]

Overpriced? Yes.

Cool idea? Yes.

I've always thought that if the phosphor could stand up to it, a laser pumped phosphor could possibly beat luminance figures for current top runners in the category of surface luminance.

Nobody has taken me up on it yet, and my pockets aren't deep enough.

 

[Dr_Evil]

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WL can go fist themselves. A freind on Xbox live told me about the green laser he got from WL. It was in his profile pictures. I'm glad I found this place while looking around. Their prices seemed way too high.