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Alright, lets start with the basics.
The unit arrived in a plastic ups shipping bag.
Shipping took about 24 hours, and it was all packed very well.
The spyder was packed in a magnetic box (pic will be here)
Included was a power sheet and an xtra sticker, i also got a pair of those 99$ glasses which i must say are awesome! They are rated OD 7 and there multi wavelength (orange colored not red) They are rubberized.
It came with 2x batterys, a charger, and a power cord.
The spyder is very solid, heavy and it is pretty long. (haven't measured it yet)
The power sheet says it is stable @ 160mW and peaks at 190mW.
Now i do have a few problems. The beam is not correctly aligned and it is hitting the apature! (definitely not cool!)
Beam is a little thicker than i expected, I will have to measure it later.
It does not seem to run in TEM00 because there is 3 dots. Looks like this OOO. I am thinking it is caused from it hitting the aparture. (could be the reason for the thick beam?)
Edit: I found out that when it heats up it mode hops and when it does it hits the aparture, on a cold start it runs in perfect TEM00 and is perfectly round.
Overall The spyder is very cool nonetheless, though i wish the divergence was like my executive.
Pros:
Nice and solid!
Nicely balanced
LED not too bright
Cons:
Mode hops.
Very large (though this is not too bad)
Note: I did not get this as a review model, I did pay for it
The unit arrived in a plastic ups shipping bag.
Shipping took about 24 hours, and it was all packed very well.
The spyder was packed in a magnetic box (pic will be here)
Included was a power sheet and an xtra sticker, i also got a pair of those 99$ glasses which i must say are awesome! They are rated OD 7 and there multi wavelength (orange colored not red) They are rubberized.
It came with 2x batterys, a charger, and a power cord.
The spyder is very solid, heavy and it is pretty long. (haven't measured it yet)
The power sheet says it is stable @ 160mW and peaks at 190mW.
Now i do have a few problems. The beam is not correctly aligned and it is hitting the apature! (definitely not cool!)
Beam is a little thicker than i expected, I will have to measure it later.
It does not seem to run in TEM00 because there is 3 dots. Looks like this OOO. I am thinking it is caused from it hitting the aparture. (could be the reason for the thick beam?)
Edit: I found out that when it heats up it mode hops and when it does it hits the aparture, on a cold start it runs in perfect TEM00 and is perfectly round.
Overall The spyder is very cool nonetheless, though i wish the divergence was like my executive.
Pros:
Nice and solid!
Nicely balanced
LED not too bright
Cons:
Mode hops.
Very large (though this is not too bad)
Note: I did not get this as a review model, I did pay for it
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