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Aliexpress 200mW green laser review

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Hello, I decided to risk my money into a laser from Aliexpress, I expect at least > 50mW from it, so if it burn stuff I'll be happy.

THE STORE:

The store are located at this address 'http://www.aliexpress.com/store/1512025', soon as I bought the laser, all the products was excluded from the page, seems that the guy has shut down it Aliexpress account.

DESCRIPTION:

Since my product is now unavailable, I have access to a snapshot of it:

Product Description
this is the newest model of a flashlight shaped green laser pointer torch, it is designed with a focusable lens, metal body.
Size: 14.5cm * 2.5cm
Wavelength: 405nm/543nm/650nm Blue&violet/ Green/Red
Range in darkness: 10,000 meters
Power Supply: 3.7V 18650 Industrial Package Li-ion Battery with multi-function charger
Focusable(you can change the size of the point)
Torch Color: Silver Black (leave message which want ,or random)

WHY I BOUGHT IT:

I know that is a chinese laser, I bought it because the host, I liked it, is different from the 301/303 lasers, if the laser stops to work I'll still have a cool host to use.

PACKING:

Not well packed, I perceived it immediately when the post man arrived, a simple yellow bag, the laser was inside a very tight bubble plastic, so if something had knocked it the laser could be damaged. Lucky, it arrived with no damage:

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THE LASER:

The laser is very lightweight, the finishing has some defects but nothing critic, the host seems to be a copy of the OX-G40 laser:

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The host is nice and comfortable, it have a big orange ON/OFF button that seems more robust than the lateral push buttons:

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OUTPUT:

Since I don't have a LPM, I'll guess the output, > 50mW and < 75mW (yup, <200mW, so it a on spec laser :crackup: ), the dot is clear and I don't noticed any mode hopping, TEM00.

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Does it burn? Yes! I did some tests, I was able to burn electric tape and fire a match easily than my 303 did. I'm curious to know the real power/IR power of it.

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SHIPPING:

The laser was shipped 19/01/2015 and arrived today, 19/03/2015, two months, a medium speed shipping here in Brazil.

Worth it? In my opinion, yes! The seller had 84% of positive feedback, and this laser didn't had any feedback, so I bought it blind wishing for the best. For me that use it only to point to stars and far objects is a very good laser, if I need do beam shots I'll go with high exposure, If I want enjoy the beam, just a bit of fog does the job.

CONS:

It could be shipped with something to put in the place of the kaleidoscopic diffraction grating, so dust don't go on the lens, as in the original image:

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Of course, not close to 200mW, but feels like > 75mW, the kaleidoscopic diffraction grating is one of those generic seen in laser pens.

To protect the bare lens, I added a small plastic piece that should do the job.
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HOST:

The host comes with two rubber rings, in the announce, it says that are waterproof rings, but I don't want to try it, here are some other images of it:

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Here some additional requested info.

Focus range: From infinite to 3cm.
Beam diameter at the opening: 1mm.
Beam divergence: 2.5cm at 9.8m; 2,45mRad.
Input current: 440mA (measured with 1R resistor at tailcap).

After 5 minutes of continuous use, the host gets a little hot, from 26ºC (room temp) to 30°C, the output was stable at TEM00 all the time.

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That's my first review, so, sorry for something. :beer:
 
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I had some click buton lasers, one was a green JD-850 (that arrived broken) and one is a purple GD-320 (for my mother), I need to get used to it, if not it can be very dangerous.

Comparing the output to the other green lasers I had, this is the brighter one. It doesn't burn too well, but the beam is more bright than all the other lasers I had. Maybe less IR more green? I'll post some beamshots at night.
 
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I had some click buton lasers, one was a green JD-850 (that arrived broken) and one is a purple GD-320 (for my mother), I need to get used to it, if not it can be very dangerous.

Comparing the output to the other green lasers I had, this is the brighter one. It doesn't burn too well, but the beam is more bright than all the other lasers I had. Maybe less IR more green? I'll post some beamshots at night.

Yeah some night beam pics would be great. Thanks for sharing this with us.
 
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Focus range? Beam diameter? Beam divergence? Input current? Input voltage required for current regulation? Temp rise?

Why don't I see any numbers here?
 
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Focus range? Beam diameter? Beam divergence? Input current? Input voltage required for current regulation? Temp rise?

Why don't I see any numbers here?

I need to know what more the members wanna see, I'll try to provide those information soon as I can. Thanks for the input! :yh:

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kilter

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Focus range? Beam diameter? Beam divergence? Input current? Input voltage required for current regulation? Temp rise?

Why don't I see any numbers here?

Haha Cyp you really roastin all the reviews :p
 
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