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Re: Mini Review of Laserglow Sol
not necessarily. some labbies do run on batteries (no not AA's) they typically run 12VDC. but that was an afterthought in light of the CNI PGL lasers. as for cost, its not necessarily from the crystal alignments, its mostly judged on how hard the laser is to stablize. even a <5mw laser can still run in the thousands direct diode. its all about stability. many of them are <10,5,or even 1% power shift over 4+ hours, with up to 10000 hours run-time. manufacturing costs definitely factor in though. (another reason why some things still use gas, stability and beam quality and long coherence are typically always present in most gas lasers with minimal or no correction.
CNI makes laserglow's products....'nuff said. But a lot of more powerful lasers do suffer from worse beams, many of the 532s from them in handheld over a few hundred mW are multimode as far as I've seen. even my 150mW is a bit prone to mode hopping. (my 671nm is almost NEVER a perfect TEM00) they waver in power a lot due to heat being unable to escape the cavity.
yes. you're right
and this was aimed at the thread creator since he seemed unsatisfied that it wasn't leaving the pointer 'straight'
sorry for my un-clearness, it was never my intention to be condescending or anything.
not necessarily. some labbies do run on batteries (no not AA's) they typically run 12VDC. but that was an afterthought in light of the CNI PGL lasers. as for cost, its not necessarily from the crystal alignments, its mostly judged on how hard the laser is to stablize. even a <5mw laser can still run in the thousands direct diode. its all about stability. many of them are <10,5,or even 1% power shift over 4+ hours, with up to 10000 hours run-time. manufacturing costs definitely factor in though. (another reason why some things still use gas, stability and beam quality and long coherence are typically always present in most gas lasers with minimal or no correction.
Are you saying that because a laser is high powered, it won't have a good quality beam :thinking:
I can promise you that someones 500mW 532 from CNI or Sky lasers will have a beam of equal or better quality to your laserglow pen-if by beam quality you are referring to diameter, dot appearance, divergence, etc. (if that isnt what you mean, then idk what)
CNI makes laserglow's products....'nuff said. But a lot of more powerful lasers do suffer from worse beams, many of the 532s from them in handheld over a few hundred mW are multimode as far as I've seen. even my 150mW is a bit prone to mode hopping. (my 671nm is almost NEVER a perfect TEM00) they waver in power a lot due to heat being unable to escape the cavity.
True indeed
yes. you're right
and this was aimed at the thread creator since he seemed unsatisfied that it wasn't leaving the pointer 'straight'sorry for my un-clearness, it was never my intention to be condescending or anything.
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I just wanted to add some 2 cents on this pointer since there has not been a single review type thing on this forums about it. I bought it for a few reasons: It looked cool, it's gold plated, I do presentations often and needed a greenie, I wanted to try out a laser from LG. THAT'S IT! PLUS I don't know how to change the title of a post.
