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Thanks, and yes, "twist" was a poor choice of word. I'd love to see someone apply corrective optics to one of these diodes.

Thanks for clearing that up Dave. It's a shame that some people on here, the minority it seems, are more interested having a go at others than much else. I mean, "Crazy Jay", if you genuinely thought something was amiss here why not just contact an admin/moderator personally instead of raising...

Hi all. Not sure if this has been mentioned before, but while trying to figure out the divergence of my Arctic, I noticed the beam profile seems to rotate by 90 degrees at about 2 metres from the aperture. Probably a perfectly normal optical property I'm just not aware of, but interesting to...

Why not find a plastic/rubber washer or o-ring that fits around the base of the threaded end of the host body at the tail cap end, of course. With one of those on, a few millimetres thick, you should still be able to close the cap enough and have a flush fit. There's definitely enough thread...

I'll have to get my own arse in gear and do a quick review of mine too.

I wouldn't take things too seriously at all. There appears to be a lot of anti-fan-boy noise about the Arctics. By that I mean, a small minority of people who take any opportunity to have a go at Wicked Lasers, because of a personal agenda. I almost feel like an advocate of theirs making...

WTF are you on about? I have no idea what that even means, but if you're suggesting that the other quote in your last post is also me then, what can I say? Clearly you have some issue seeing as you've gone to such lengths to check my account out. To top it all, you've come to a totally random...

Riiiiiiiight. Clearly you are a person who's opinion must be taken seriously?! I mean aside from the arrogance, errors, and plain rudeness, do you actually own one, or to put it more accurately given your point of view, have owned several and done enough with them to validate anything?

Amazing! By your own count you find 5 examples, and after reading those I notice that some, if not all, are not conclusive. The ones I read all had suggestions made by experienced members that hadn't been tried yet, or before the complaining OP's bungled attempts made sure things did break...

This has to be one of the best points made so far on the Arctic, thanks. I was worried about ~100+ mW being bounced back into the diode anyway, and now you've mentioned this, I've promptly removed the glass lens from my training lens cap and voila; one unobstructed, still protected and cool...

Thanks for that power meter check, great stuff. I've removed the actual lens from my "training lens" cap so when I use that, instead of the "full power" one, the beam is unobstructed as in your tests, yet still protected and maintaining the original look of the unit. The thought of ~100mW...

Just spotted this article and thoughts of getting into DIY come straight to mind. Have to brush up on the old electronics skills methinks... ... Sony, Tohoku University develop blue-violet laser with 100 watt output, eyeing 1TB optical disk future? -- Engadget

Thanks WonHungLo :) That info's great, I'll get started :)

Hey guys. I'm about to embark on my first DIY laser and could do with some help. I got myself some resistors, caps, pots, diodes, a breadboard, adjustable solder iron, and a multimeter. The main thing I'm concerned with is building my own driver. The main problem I'm having is knowing the...

Hi all, just wondering if it's easy to save a lot of hassel of building a driver and casing etc... when all you seem to need do is find a pointer with a pot, remove the diode, measure the current with a multimeter and adjust till you reach 60-90mA and finally pop a harvested blue diode in... To...

Wow, great pic ben74! You can really see the difference.

Great advice guys, thanks. My choice is clear now, I reckon I'll have to go with a Nova CNI. I think I'll probably keep to my 60mW max, and get one of the Dragon Lasers beam expanders with a "Viper" adaptor.

Makes sense actually, the point about infiniti's and rejects, when you look at their prices. Also, I had an infiniti once, and sent it back for a refund, but that was mainly due to rapid power drop from new batteries, that I put down to having a 125mW+ pointer. That's why I'm limiting myself...

Has anyone ever owned an Optotronics pointer and a std CNI X-Series/Viper/Infiniti, or in a good position to make a judgement on which is the best? Basically, I want a good quality 50-60 mW pointer and the CNI's look well made and good quality, but I hear that Optotronics are top-end...

Ahem, I think cultural differences are apparrent here guys. Remember this is China we're talking about; regardless of where the sites may appear to be from. WL and Techlasers, AND Dragon Lasers are all Chinese firms right? China is well known for a complete lack of any human rights principles...