building or obtaining laser power meter

[caleb]

I am looking for one or to build one if its possible. I just want something simple like pluging it into a multimeter.

I thught it was a basic as shining a laser into an LED pluged into a multimeter at one stage, is this still the case.

 

[chido]

You missed on the power meters Kenom was selling, those were great but the supplier from ebay run out of thermal heads so now, that's a thing of the past.

I've heard of the LED thing but it's crap and will not ever be accurate enough.
Right now, the cheapest power meter that I know of is the lasercheck but I've heard it's not that great and it costs around 400 bucks.