405 pens for $9 shipped

[cheech226]

i bought another, it's auction starting at $.90 here's the link:

405nm 5mW Violet Purple Blue Ray Blue Laser Pointer Pen | eBay

 

[Fretwrecker94]

i bought another, it's auction starting at $.90 here's the link:

405nm 5mW Violet Purple Blue Ray Blue Laser Pointer Pen | eBay

New Powerful Violet Purple Blue Ray Laser Light Pointer Pen Beam 5mW 405nm | eBay

Here are some for $5.50 shipped...

 

[Shadowspawn]

I like this one:

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I bought one of these based on a review from someone else on these boards. Shipping from China is so slow that the review which provoked me to try buying one of these is now buried down where I can't find it.

But, subjectively it is unmistakably brighter than any other of my several 405nm pens, and it has a much nicer dot.

I have a new M140 diode that I need to get installed in one of my lasers, and I'll of course get out the LPM and measure the results when I do that installation. If I get around to doing that this weekend (amidst all the Super Bowl madness), I'll also measure the 405 pen I recommend here, and post the results here.

 

[cheech226]

my 2 pens metered 32mw and 44mw. they're in the laser pointer host we know and love. i plan to do more beam mixing with dichros and these low powers are a lot "safer" to fiddle with.

 

[scopeguy20]

Just got myself another one, it metered at 55mW in darkness the beam has color even with my old eyes. This is what was missing when all we had was >30 mW of 405nm, at least to me. -Glenn

 

[LaserCo]

I started in on these $5-6 ($5.13 and $5.03 actually) pointers myself because of that other thread that one of the links within went to yallstock where I ordered.
At the same time I ordered a 405 and a 532, the 405 came surprisingly quick, much quicker than was projected, the 532 came about 1 week later.
I have an LPM now but need to come up with a sensor head that I will either build or buy so I cannot state output levels, but I will say this about the 532, Ive got one of Swimmingsurfer256's 532 Super Overspec's and it totally blows away what I got from yallstock while the 405 I got from both parties seem to be about the same brightness.