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OK I order my product on the 21 of November and have received it today.... at first I had regular shipping but then it got upgraded to tnt because they didn’t tell me that my first laser didn’t pass quality control and it finally got shipped out on the 30th so ya 9 days just for it to ship not to bad I guess but then again they did give me tnt shipping to make up for it so its all good maybe even better time than reg. air mail.
On to the review
I opened up the box and man was this thing packed good 3 lairs of bubble wrap one cardboard case another lair of bubble wrap then aluminum case then the foam then the laser : ) so ya I don’t think any harm was done to this bad baby : ) o ya on the box the specs were 134.9 mw peak and 130.3 avg. ok... 5mw over what I bough not to bad : )
anyway after getting thro all the lasers defensive packaging I quickly read over all 4 pages of directions : ) and then installed my NIMH batteries that were charged on the 20th of November today is the 3rd of December...... the dot was about as bright as maybe a bit more than my dx50 I was really un impressed about 1/2 maybe even 1/4 the brightness of my dx200.... and was after looking over the serial number on the box and then the one on my laser they didn’t match up so I thought and maybe still am thinking that they shipped the wrong laser or maybe that they just wrote it down wrong on the box its xxxx504 and on the laser in the batteries tube its xxxx405 ? I think it was just written down wrong but I am going to ask tomorrow just so that way its on paper to increase I ever have to send this thing back.
Anyway back to the power issue this thing wouldn’t even sting my hand. But then I noticed that it was really bright then got dim so I figured maybe the batteries were dead. but they were just chard a few weeks ago didn’t make much since but anyway I tried a fresh set of alkaline and man did the power go up it was instantly as bright or maybe a tad bit brighter than my dx200 I was ok happy since I spend 365 on a 125mw laser and 120 on a 200mw laser and they were about the same except one takes AA and the other AAA. So with the power about the same I set out side to light matches. the alpha lights matches a bit further away then the Dx does so I am happier at this point knowing that this laser is superior to my dx : )
next would be the beam specs at 13' away it was approx 1cm in diameter and at 53' it was about 3.3cm in diameter this gives me a mrad angle of 1.8 mrad the exact same as my dx :| . Here I am kind of disappointed as the specs on the web sight say <1.2 mrad. so I figured this count be right so I put both lasers side by side and ran down my 53' hall way and the end result was to identical dots, well almost the alphas dot was more round than the dx but other than that they were the same size :|
Batteries power
Ok so I decide I would try something. I put the AAA batteries inside the laser and put a spacer in their so it would touch the cap. The result. A dot that was 1/2 as bright as the dx that used the exact same batteries before and after the alpha did. The measured 1.4v. Now this test may not be all that accurate as the spacer may have added resistance or something like that I don’t know but it just doesn’t seem right. But also I think my meter is inaccurate to because alkaline at 1.5 volts look dimmer than NiMH AA at 1.4V but brighter than AAA at 1.4V..... Doesn’t make much since I think my meter is messed up giving me inaccurate results anyway
Compare and contrast
ALPHA DX
Beam appearance same for both
power Seems to be same
Batteries AA AAA I like the AA better they seem to last longer
Construction great ok
Price ok great
Aperture cap love the feature doesn’t have
3 sec delay good feature doesn’t have
Key switch don’t use it doesn’t have it
Safety remover thing good doesn’t have
Ok now I have a question about this thing. Since the button dose not lock would it is possible to tape the button down and put a switch on the safety remover thing so I would effective have a switch instead of a button? Would that be ok to energize the thing like that? Or could the sudden introduction of power hurt it?
Ok over all I like this laser. It really is a great laser and I love the mega matrices diffraction grading that came with it its cool. But if it’s worth the extra 200$ to upgrade to it from a dx version I don’t know. Maybe I am one of the few that actually got a great dx product that puts some mw. If I had to choose I would pick the alpha over it just because it’s built so much better and has better customer support
Hope you like my review and if theirs any questions you have I will answer them.... I don’t have a good enough camera to capture beam shots so don’t ask for those : ) I know that questions going to come up : ) but if I had the camera I would take a few pictures because their worth more than words : )
(just lookd but on the paperwork its got xxxx504)
On to the review
I opened up the box and man was this thing packed good 3 lairs of bubble wrap one cardboard case another lair of bubble wrap then aluminum case then the foam then the laser : ) so ya I don’t think any harm was done to this bad baby : ) o ya on the box the specs were 134.9 mw peak and 130.3 avg. ok... 5mw over what I bough not to bad : )
anyway after getting thro all the lasers defensive packaging I quickly read over all 4 pages of directions : ) and then installed my NIMH batteries that were charged on the 20th of November today is the 3rd of December...... the dot was about as bright as maybe a bit more than my dx50 I was really un impressed about 1/2 maybe even 1/4 the brightness of my dx200.... and was after looking over the serial number on the box and then the one on my laser they didn’t match up so I thought and maybe still am thinking that they shipped the wrong laser or maybe that they just wrote it down wrong on the box its xxxx504 and on the laser in the batteries tube its xxxx405 ? I think it was just written down wrong but I am going to ask tomorrow just so that way its on paper to increase I ever have to send this thing back.
Anyway back to the power issue this thing wouldn’t even sting my hand. But then I noticed that it was really bright then got dim so I figured maybe the batteries were dead. but they were just chard a few weeks ago didn’t make much since but anyway I tried a fresh set of alkaline and man did the power go up it was instantly as bright or maybe a tad bit brighter than my dx200 I was ok happy since I spend 365 on a 125mw laser and 120 on a 200mw laser and they were about the same except one takes AA and the other AAA. So with the power about the same I set out side to light matches. the alpha lights matches a bit further away then the Dx does so I am happier at this point knowing that this laser is superior to my dx : )
next would be the beam specs at 13' away it was approx 1cm in diameter and at 53' it was about 3.3cm in diameter this gives me a mrad angle of 1.8 mrad the exact same as my dx :| . Here I am kind of disappointed as the specs on the web sight say <1.2 mrad. so I figured this count be right so I put both lasers side by side and ran down my 53' hall way and the end result was to identical dots, well almost the alphas dot was more round than the dx but other than that they were the same size :|
Batteries power
Ok so I decide I would try something. I put the AAA batteries inside the laser and put a spacer in their so it would touch the cap. The result. A dot that was 1/2 as bright as the dx that used the exact same batteries before and after the alpha did. The measured 1.4v. Now this test may not be all that accurate as the spacer may have added resistance or something like that I don’t know but it just doesn’t seem right. But also I think my meter is inaccurate to because alkaline at 1.5 volts look dimmer than NiMH AA at 1.4V but brighter than AAA at 1.4V..... Doesn’t make much since I think my meter is messed up giving me inaccurate results anyway
Compare and contrast
ALPHA DX
Beam appearance same for both
power Seems to be same
Batteries AA AAA I like the AA better they seem to last longer
Construction great ok
Price ok great
Aperture cap love the feature doesn’t have
3 sec delay good feature doesn’t have
Key switch don’t use it doesn’t have it
Safety remover thing good doesn’t have
Ok now I have a question about this thing. Since the button dose not lock would it is possible to tape the button down and put a switch on the safety remover thing so I would effective have a switch instead of a button? Would that be ok to energize the thing like that? Or could the sudden introduction of power hurt it?
Ok over all I like this laser. It really is a great laser and I love the mega matrices diffraction grading that came with it its cool. But if it’s worth the extra 200$ to upgrade to it from a dx version I don’t know. Maybe I am one of the few that actually got a great dx product that puts some mw. If I had to choose I would pick the alpha over it just because it’s built so much better and has better customer support
Hope you like my review and if theirs any questions you have I will answer them.... I don’t have a good enough camera to capture beam shots so don’t ask for those : ) I know that questions going to come up : ) but if I had the camera I would take a few pictures because their worth more than words : )
(just lookd but on the paperwork its got xxxx504)