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hi everybody, this is my first review on a laser, and i don't have a good camera so this review is gonna be kinda boring, but it might be helpful to.
anyways, i had been looking all over for a place that had a high quality, decent power green laser so i decided to go for this one at 100mw with an IR filter. i dont have a laser power meter but i dont feel like it is to spec, however i have absolutely no way of measuring, thats just comparing it to my old crappy 303 green laser from laserpoint.com that was supposedly 200mW, which (i think) was brighter, and much more stable. this laser is very weird in terms of stability, its very unstable and is always changing brightness for like the first 30 seconds that its turned on, then its fine, and i dont think its becuase its warming up, there might be something wrong with it, but i dont have much experience with lasers, so who knows.
when defocused the beam looks terrible, it morphs into random shapes while "warming up" and has a weird halo around the central dot (again, while defocused) this is too bright to take a picture of however. this might be because its minnesota, (its cold here) but i might have also gotten a crappy laser, who knows, customer service is very adamant about it being a temperature related problem, and i kind of agree, but its still iffy.
the host is fantastic though, for safety features (that meet the FDA's standards) it has a lock on the side, a shutter on the front, and a pin-thing in the back (i don't know what its called) that, when removed, does not allow the laser to function. it is rock solid, and does not budge a half of a millimeter anywhere.
the shipping was crazy fast, they didn't update me at all about the times when it was being built or completed like they should have, but it got here like 5 days after i ordered it (with DHL shiping, the best shipping ever for international, by far) so im happy.
the laser beam comes out at a really odd angle, definitely not straight, but that doesn't bother me.
the "lasing action" 7/10
host 10/10
customer service 6/10
shipping and such 10/10
overall, i don't feel like i spent 137$ on this laser, i feel like i spent 50$ on another crappy laser from china. this is the first time i have had a laser from a company with a good reputation, so this was probably just a fluke. this was a C+ if i were to grade it. overall, i would get something from them again, but not a DPSS laser (they be crazy), and if it didn't meet my low standards i wouldn't buy another one. sorry laserbtb, not impressed with this one.
PS: im only being hard on this laser because i had a 30$ 303 that i strongly believe would outperform it. and yes, i do have safety glasses, and i do use them in case anyone was wondering about the "judging the laser by how bright it is" thing (which i know is not safe)
heres a video of the output: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKkVj9N6wdc
anyways, i had been looking all over for a place that had a high quality, decent power green laser so i decided to go for this one at 100mw with an IR filter. i dont have a laser power meter but i dont feel like it is to spec, however i have absolutely no way of measuring, thats just comparing it to my old crappy 303 green laser from laserpoint.com that was supposedly 200mW, which (i think) was brighter, and much more stable. this laser is very weird in terms of stability, its very unstable and is always changing brightness for like the first 30 seconds that its turned on, then its fine, and i dont think its becuase its warming up, there might be something wrong with it, but i dont have much experience with lasers, so who knows.
when defocused the beam looks terrible, it morphs into random shapes while "warming up" and has a weird halo around the central dot (again, while defocused) this is too bright to take a picture of however. this might be because its minnesota, (its cold here) but i might have also gotten a crappy laser, who knows, customer service is very adamant about it being a temperature related problem, and i kind of agree, but its still iffy.
the host is fantastic though, for safety features (that meet the FDA's standards) it has a lock on the side, a shutter on the front, and a pin-thing in the back (i don't know what its called) that, when removed, does not allow the laser to function. it is rock solid, and does not budge a half of a millimeter anywhere.
the shipping was crazy fast, they didn't update me at all about the times when it was being built or completed like they should have, but it got here like 5 days after i ordered it (with DHL shiping, the best shipping ever for international, by far) so im happy.
the laser beam comes out at a really odd angle, definitely not straight, but that doesn't bother me.
the "lasing action" 7/10
host 10/10
customer service 6/10
shipping and such 10/10
overall, i don't feel like i spent 137$ on this laser, i feel like i spent 50$ on another crappy laser from china. this is the first time i have had a laser from a company with a good reputation, so this was probably just a fluke. this was a C+ if i were to grade it. overall, i would get something from them again, but not a DPSS laser (they be crazy), and if it didn't meet my low standards i wouldn't buy another one. sorry laserbtb, not impressed with this one.
PS: im only being hard on this laser because i had a 30$ 303 that i strongly believe would outperform it. and yes, i do have safety glasses, and i do use them in case anyone was wondering about the "judging the laser by how bright it is" thing (which i know is not safe)
heres a video of the output: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKkVj9N6wdc
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