My new 1600 mW Meierlight green analog laser! [Video]

[paulzimm]

Got this insanely over-powered (rated at only 1 watt) for $818 with shipping from Meierlight. I am going to replace the 300 mW mini-lab laser in my RRGB projector with this BEAST of a laser that can output over 1600 mW of light (peaks around 1740 mW).

Link to purchase: Meierlight 1000mw 532nm green DPSS laser ANALOG for lightshows

Video here: Meierlight 1.6 Watt 532nm Green Analog Laser - YouTube

LPM Test Video: Meierlight 1.6 Watt LPM Testing - YouTube

Burning Video: 1740 mW (peak) green laser - YouTube

* Tested using LaserBee 2.5 USB light power meter and it is extremely stable!

 

[daguin]

Do you actually have 6.5W of red in there?

Peace,
dave

 

[LaZeRz]

Do you actually have 6.5W of red in there?

Peace,
dave

Lol...

 

[Ibuprofen200mg]

In the video, the laser goggles are sitting on the table....:shhh:

 

[paulzimm]

In the video, the laser goggles are sitting on the table....:shhh:

That's because I own three pairs of them, my girlfriend was wearing that pair but left my place just before I shot the video.

 

[paulzimm]

Do you actually have 6.5W of red in there?

Peace,
dave

Huh? No, I currently only have 2 x LPC815's in my RRGB projector but I just ordered a pair of 400mW 638nm reds to replace them.

Where does it say 6.5 watts of red?

 

[Ibuprofen200mg]

I was just joking anyway, that is one hell of a beam. :beer:

 

[daguin]

Huh? No, I currently only have 2 x LPC815's in my RRGB projector but I just ordered a pair of 400mW 638nm reds to replace them.

Where does it say 6.5 watts of red?

It doesn't. Sorry for being unclear.

A VERY rough estimate of the required amount of red to green for an RGB projector is 4-to-1. The above estimate was off the top of my head. I ran it through Chroma this morning.

Here are Chroma's estimates based in 1.6W of green to produce white light:

532nm = 1.6W
658nm = 6W (or 2.4W of 638nm)
445nm = 1.3W (if you go with 638nm red, you'll need 1.5W)

or

532nm = 1.6W
658nm = 7.8W (OR 3.2W OF 638nm)
473nm = 2.4W (if you go with 638nm red, you'll need 2.6W)

Peace,
dave

 

[Solonar]

Even using the 638's your still going to need around 1.6W of red.

Dave, I hope you meant 532, not 543. I'd love to see a 1.6W 543nm HeNe.

 

[lasersbee]

Got this insanely over-powered (rated at only 1 watt) for $818 with shipping from Meierlight. I am going to replace the 300 mW mini-lab laser in my RRGB projector with this BEAST of a laser that can output 1600 mW of light!

Video here: Meierlight 1.6 Watt 532nm Green Analog Laser - YouTube

* Tested using LaserBee 2.5 USB light power meter and it is extremely stable!

That's one high powered 532nm Laser you got there... Congrats..

* I was expecting to see you metering your Laser on the Video...


Jerry

 

[daguin]

Even using the 638's your still going to need around 1.6W of red.

Dave, I hope you meant 532, not 543. I'd love to see a 1.6W 543nm HeNe.

:crackup: Yeah -- I used and meant 532nm. It is obviously too early on a Friday

I'll edit the above numbers :yabbem:

Peace,
dave

 

[paulzimm]

Um, don't you know that you can change the max levels of the lasers within the software?

I plan to turn down most of the power of the green analog when doing full color RGB shows indoors, but I still have the option to go max power when doing green beam shows outside.

The best of both worlds! See attached screenshot from Pangolin QuickShow...

PS - Spaghetti also has this option as well.

 

[daguin]

Um, don't you know that you can change the max levels of the lasers within the software?

I plan to turn down most of the power of the green analog when doing full color RGB shows indoors, but I still have the option to go max power when doing green beam shows outside.

The best of both worlds! See attached screenshot from Pangolin QuickShow...

PS - Spaghetti also has this option as well.

Absolutely

It just seems quite the shame to cut that beam more than in half and then hide it inside a projector.

Save this one for your next projector and build a high powered two-color "cyan" projector. High powers of 445nm are easy now.

If you haven't seen one yet, 3W of cyan/turquoise is quite impressive

Get a lower powered green for this projector

Peace,
dave

**EDIT** -- Here is a quick video of Platinum's cyan. The video is not nearly as impressive as the laser actually is, but it will give you an idea.
Note that it is in a well lighted (daylight) room

 

[paulzimm]

Thanks for the info Daguin, that looks impressive!

 

[vk2fro]

In that film are you walking across the beampath of a class IV laser??????!!

I'd be kind of cautious doing that

oh, and impressive laser - nice score - 600mw more for the price of 1000mw

 

[paulzimm]

Yep, I was wearing jeans (along with safety glasses) and as long as I kept moving while close to the beam it doesn't smoke them too bad LOL