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Hey Bp check this picture out. Mine looks exactly like the middle tube and according to this they are typically 2mW. Its from Sam's FAQ BTW.

Some lasers work with smaller heatsinks better than others do. Some lasers are designed so that they use the host itself for most of the heatsinking and this works even better when the host has some descent mass to it which I doubt those lasers have much of. Anyway, at $100 they aren't a good...

So after getting an HeNe for the first time I decided that I wanted to give Argons a try. I am very glad I did that is for sure. Dave is such a great guy he even delivered the laser to my house himself and that is much appreciated. The laser and power supply are freaking giant. I was totally not...

HAHAHA that's hilarious. That sounds like a rather entertaining party to me. I'm not much of a fan of GaGa though. On looks alone I think there is much better out there. She also tends to be a little too strange for my liking. I think ped's suggestion of Kelly Brook is pretty damn good. She is...

I actually think you answered every question I have had in the last couple days XD Thanks much bro. I'll send you a PM or post here is something else comes up. On that note I might be meeting up with daguin today or tomorrow to grab his 25mW 488nm Argon :D Gas lasers are FUN :P I feel a new...

Oh very nice. That looks quite perfect and isn't as much of a bank breaker as I expected. Gunna have to put that on my to-buy list :D

So far the laser has been rock solid. It has not sputtered or blinked once. I will see if I can find a way to meter it out because now I am really curious LOL.

Interesting. Not that it matters much but I was just rolling off what daguin said about what he guessed the output to be. I don't have a LPM capable of metering that low. Visually though its pretty damn bright and I would have guessed it to be about 2mW but its probably much lower then. My 543...

Top of post #7 bro :P

Re: 405-G-2 $20 ea @ Laser66! 1 Week only sale, & 9mm diode lens (G9) $12 ea I wonder how much attention a large scale(100+) G2 GB would get...

I remember AnthoT from when I was just getting into lasers and I got parts for my first few lasers from him so I have no doubt that when the site is complete it will be a great resource. This is not his first round of parts supplying.

Good to know. Thanks for the info. The PSU I have on my green works but do you think a slightly higher rated one would perform better/differently?

My PSU is rated for 1.2-1.6KVDC at 4.5mA and a total power rating of 22W max. I was only able to feel the slightest bit of warmth from the PSU after about a half hour of runtime so I do not suspect that it will ever be an issue. The tube itself gets warm mostly at the anode during operation so I...

125mW is not so much a magic number for burning from my exp. Wavelength and optics play a large part in determining burn power as well as exactly what you are trying to burn and as you said what you consider burning as. A 532nm laser is not one you generally seek if your goal is any variation of...

Its rated at 5mW bro, not 5W. Also, most of these are somewhere between 20mW and 70mW. However, it is still not enough to burn even if you are lucky to get something on the high end. Also the rated class on the laser is IIIb which is used for anything between 5-500mW and a 5W laser would be a...

I finally got one of Dave's(daguin) 543nm HeNe lasers and it arrived today. It's my first HeNe and I have to say I am HOOKED on gas lasers. It is unfortunate that it set me back $111 for a ~2mW laser but its totally worth it now that it is on my desk. I have had it turned on way too long today...

Re: 9mm diode lens (G9) $12 ea? I wish I could afford getting 10 G2s for $20 each...

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Then no, an eagle pair wouldn't change that. What you are seeing is other wavelengths being emitted by what you are super heating with the laser and there is nothing you can do to block that short of blocking the whole visible spectrum. The best way to solve that issue is not staring at it too...