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Introducing Radiant Electronics and the Radiant Alpha Power Meter

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MarioMaster said:
Hey everyone, things are finally moving again in regards to production of the Radiant Alpha LPMs. I will post here and issue a newsletter when more are up for sale.

I am also considering a DIY Alpha kit - you can build your own power meter and return it to me for calibration. Does this sound like a good idea?
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That's great news, when should we look back at your site? Can we do a pre-order? I'd have no problem with buying it in kit form ether so I'd go for it....
 





I *love* any news from Radiant, I think the Alpha is an awesome LPM.

PURELY from a practical perspective, I wonder whether the DIY kit is a good idea?

If it's just for the purpose of giving buyers a fun project/kit to tackle, then it's a great move. But if the objective is to save cost, I wonder how well you'll be able to do that, considering there are two extra shipping steps involved? Presuming an extra $25 to tackle that, you'd have to offer the kits at $75 or less, just to make it a break-even proposition. Can you do that? (I have no idea what materials are involved, parts etc).

Again though, if the objective is just to make a kit that people could get the "experience" of building an LPM through, then it's obviously an awesome idea in my mind :)
 
Consider what you will think and do, when someone sends you back an assembled kit for calibration, and you find that it was assembled with no skill and with no care, and may have some problems, and you are expected to calibrate it and send it back, with the other party expecting that it will work wonderfully and accurately for a long time after calibration.
 
Shadowspawn said:
Consider what you will think and do, when someone sends you back an assembled kit for calibration, and you find that it was assembled with no skill and with no care, and may have some problems, and you are expected to calibrate it and send it back, with the other party expecting that it will work wonderfully and accurately for a long time after calibration.
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Thats a great point
 
Shadowspawn said:
Consider what you will think and do, when someone sends you back an assembled kit for calibration, and you find that it was assembled with no skill and with no care, and may have some problems, and you are expected to calibrate it and send it back, with the other party expecting that it will work wonderfully and accurately for a long time after calibration.
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I agree with this, unless you are selective in whom you send the DIY kits to, you are bound to have issues with this concept. At the very least, I would not be comfortable warranting this type of product. It would need to be sold ASIS, it my mind anyway.

On the other hand anything that will get these in stock, I'd be up for.
 
I would build a diy kit just for fun.:) Though I am a quite competent at assembly.

I don't know how it would work for the average joe that has doesn't have a clue how to read schematics or know what parts are what. You would need to have them prove they can do it. Or you could put a disclaimer that when they send it in and its not assembled properly they would be charged for repair. With that you would then have to put up with repairing units which is a whole other monster.
 
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The unassembled kit would be a great idea, IF people wouldn't have to send it back
to you but instead calibrated on their own.
So costs would be kept to a minimum and you aren't liable for calibrating poorly assembled kits.

I know, you need a known power laser as reference....:undecided:
What could one use as an alternative...?:thinking:

It's kind of a chicken/egg problem, you could only calibrate your DIY LPM if you
already have a calibrated LPM.
DOH.
 
anselm said:
The unassembled kit would be a great idea, IF people wouldn't have to send it back
to you but instead calibrated on their own.
So costs would be kept to a minimum and you aren't liable for calibrating poorly assembled kits.

I know, you need a known power laser as reference....:undecided:
What could one use as an alternative...?:thinking:

It's kind of a chicken/egg problem, you could only calibrate your DIY LPM if you
already have a calibrated LPM.
DOH.
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You could send a cheapo new wish 405nm pen with each kit and label it with its power as measured by a calibrated meter as a reference. I have dozens of the newwish 405nm lasers and they have a good stable output assuming you are using fully charged batteries. Between individual lasers this power ranges from 30-90mW but once the power is known it will remain stable for the next metering (unlike DPSS). And they only cost like $7 shipped.
 
^^ That is A Great Idea. Best Idea so Far.:)

+1:beer:

However it is Best to have a Minimum of 100mW to calibrate the Meter. But 405nm or 650nm/660nm Is best to use as they are really stable.
 
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Everyone is getting ddos'd these days. Something needs to be done to make such attacks less effective or harder to do.
 
You'll need to check their site to see if they have
been re-stocked...


Jerry
 
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