CNI PGL-III-473-C 50mw

[Traveller]

...It shows the 473 spot side by side with a green spot. The green is putting out about 90mw (rated 50mw) and I estimate the 473 was putting out about the same...

I know you all want to see what a >90 mW blue 473nm laser looks like...

Well I think between the two of you we now have enough to stimulate our imagination and more importantly our desire for such a laser too...

:drool:

Thank you both kindly :beer:

 

[aryntha]

Heh, I have a PGL-III-C-473 50mW coming in GB#7 from Glenn... I can only HOPE that it is as overspec as this!

(Knowing my luck though.... blah)

Who knows, maybe I've been banking karma with DOA lasers.

Anyhow, Glenn you'll be testing 'em on arrival right?

 

[RA_pierce]

Heh, I have a PGL-III-C-473 50mW coming in GB#7 from Glenn... I can only HOPE that it is as overspec as this!

(Knowing my luck though.... blah)

Who knows, maybe I've been banking karma with DOA lasers.

Anyhow, Glenn you'll be testing 'em on arrival right?

Same here. Can't wait! :wave:

If I had a deity to pray to, I would do that.
:bowdown:

 

[aryntha]

Bleh, figures. Mine showed up today, probably doing ~40mW at best to start and then tapering down to 10mW ...

... Anyone know if 18650 "quality" affects this much? I'm hoping this one, that Glenn would have tested, wasn't that underspec. hmm...

 

[yobresal]

Hey bud. A number of things can cause this. These lasers are extremely temperature sensitive. For mine if the laser is in a cold room (68 and below) the laser will start out at like 30mW and it will take a good long warm up before it reaches full power. After it reaches full power I need to be very carefuly with the duty cycles because if it gets too hot it will go into tem01 and power will drop to 20mW. The trick for my laser is to warm it up with my hands or breath first and then use it with duty cycles. I am not sure about your but try different things out. I will also tell you this. If you have been testing and testing over and over again you will likely need to give the laser a rest for an hour and then start over again.

 

[aryntha]

Yeah, I'm not giving up... I think it might be related to that, so I'll have to see what conditions it likes.

Basically what it is:

I'll start out and my AqPro30 will be dimmer by far. The PGL-III-C-50 will be brighter. This'll persist for a while as the AqPro comes up to temperature, then they're about equal... (course LG said my AqPro was doing 37-80 .. so..)

-- They'll sit about the same for a while, and the PGL-III-C will drop off quickly, to ~10mW. The AqPro in this time seems to keep going strong.

I guess a bit of my concern is that the PGL-III-C seems to never go out of TEM01... Heard that -could- be a power issue, from ElectroFreaks thread.

It's odd to me because th PGL-III-C should have more heatsinking. But, also, I Was testing the PGL-III-C earlier a bit more than the AqPro. So, I'm going to reset both of them; charge both sets of batteries, leave them off for a while, and see how it goes.

Glenn said that he thought the PGL-III-C-50's in this GB were doing "65-75mW" (Mine was probably the lowest overspec, knowing my luck ) - Just wanted to get a PGL-III-C that'd do solidly over a bit well 50mW... That's what I'm hoping for here...