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As promised, here is the second review(of hopefully many) in regards to the building of my labby rainbow
Overview:
This particular unit was actually purchased from DragonLasers, not directly from the manufacturer, CNI. That being said, this unit still ran me some pretty pennies, exactly $450 to be exact(including shipping)! Many people might find this terribly expensive well....because it kinda is, but you have to take into account *from personal experience* that DragonLaser's prices are well below what it would cost you if you were buying directly from CNI. Another factor to take into account is that these aren't just regular old' 100mW 532 lasers that you see floating around LPF where people burn and have fun showing the beam off to friends, these kind of lasers are built for one simple task: STABILITY! When you take into account all the testing done to make sure this laser is lab worthy and will outperform all 532 pens, $450 ain't all that bad in the end, even for only 100mW's(176mW's in my case)
This is by far the part I hate the most when ordering built-to-order products, the loooong waaait time waiting for that email telling you your laser is on it's way. Fortunately, DragonLasers is pretty quick and over 2 purchases with them I've found 10-12 days is the normal amount of time you'll be left in the void wondering if all that money was worth it. Then again, knowing people are hard at work building your laser makes you have some kind of joy in your purchase, knowing these are rare lasers being built.
Shipping from DragonLasers(CNI) is done via FedEx Int'l Priority, and as such your laser gets to you pretty quickly which I love! From China, to my doorstep took about 3 days every single time I would buy from CNI/DL and of course, tracking is reliable and up-to-date(although it seems to lag behind 1 hour at times on FedEx's website ). The laser was shipped in a very nice, padded, bubble-wrapped box which prevented any damage to the laser, PSU or any fragile parts which could be damaged due to high vibration. One thing I would like to add, I really love the fact CNI puts your lab laser inside a vaccum sealed, padded foam box, really pretty neat when you open it and hear the air rush in
The laser head itself is your typical CNI labby head, nothing too special here. Although interestingly enough, the head(which I thought twisted off) actually has a little sliding pin you must slide to open up the aperture, as where the 655 has a little screw knob you must screw out to open the aperture(more in the pictures below).
And of course pictures, showing the 532 & 655 next to each other. They are now labby friends :gh:
Hope you enjoyed this review, I was really excited this guy so I apologize for the lack of pictures, wanted to spend more time using it
-Alex
MGL-III-532-100mW
Overview:
- Price
- Production Time
- Shipping Time
- Unit itself
- Power Output: 176.2mW
- Power Stability(over 4 hours): %0.252
Price
Production Time
Shipping Time
Unit itself
And of course pictures, showing the 532 & 655 next to each other. They are now labby friends :gh:
Hope you enjoyed this review, I was really excited this guy so I apologize for the lack of pictures, wanted to spend more time using it
-Alex
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