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Price is plenty legit. Did you look at diode prices? 405's are cheap.

Whats with the soldered/knotted wires out the front?

I still see a lot for sale online for cheap. I have some at home, but I think I will go ahead and buy more. They are terrifically fun for what they are :D Ooh i just found square variants as well. Neat.

I love that starwars blaster. Where'd you get it? BTW...+rep for that collection, and only 1 post! Glad to see someone can do some reading!

I didn't realize this was just going to be a continuation of the Apple circlejerk... No matter what the fanboys say, Apple products are overpriced and underspec. But I guess if you slap a pretty[simple] enough UI on it, people will bow down.

You all act like all this de-privatization of information is something new...it's been around for quite a while. There is nothing anyone has to hide, because the government already knows it all. Not much point in getting your pants in a twist trying to protect yourself now.

Get a bigger aspheric lens for a bigger collimated beam.

Except the chinese have wised up, and now are joining as members to post terribly formatted sale threads that they constsntly bump, instead of paying for an ad slot....not just the chinese at this point either.

Echoing gozert. And a 10$ price drop doesn't change anything he said...

Neato, will have to grab me some wire. Not that I need any, but it's a good excuse to stock up even more :D

Re: For Sale - 500mw Green Laser with Battery/Charger and Safety Goggles I'd send that to someone to get it properly metered. I highly doubt it is 500mW.

Thats the media for you. Even 100mW laser hitting a plane at altitude, factoring in divergence, wouldn't do that much- and most certainly would not make it crash. Dangerous? Yes. Stupid? Yes. But deadly?? Not at all. I still think they should be punished, but 14 years seems extreme.

Few active members and not much happening in the hobby.

Was a simple question, no need to freak out. But by the same token, think about it...The lasers people build here are not commercially, and some random Joe on the street isn't going to make one himself without coming to these forums...The problem is the mass of increasingly cheap ~1W 445's on...

This^ What is the point of pushing your little contest so much?

Those were pics put up by 4chan members to try and get the ball rolling, no idea if it worked or not

Sure, but not for anything that actually needs heatsinking. You would be better off printing a host that has an area for an actual metal heatsink. Also, how is power getting from your battery->through the host->to the diode/driver? The metal filament may be conductive, but I doubt it's that...

There are no inefficient module surplus, because there are no 473 modules mass produced...or hardly produced at all, save CNI and JL. Since they are so expensive, if they don't meet spec, the parts are reused, not dumped into the random chinese market. Even the "cheap" 473 styropyro got off DX a...

Except >465 isnt super great for color mixing in projectors. Commercial use diodes won't get much higher.

Re: WTB: A140/A-type 140 Laser Diodes Lol, more like have a handful of diodes worth nothing at that point.