405 nm
I am an electrician with enough background in electronics to accurately detail a failure of a product, so yeah the batteries are not dead.
I also checked with other batteries, and these batts in my Red 200mw laser work just fine.
O-Like responded in just a couple of hours to replace or refund.
Not sure which I'll choose yet.
I've found Rayfoss with a 405nm 300w for $160 with a 60s duty cycle and a 445nm 1W with a 30s duty cycle for $205. I own the Rayfoss RF532-200mW-FMK(IR filtered) an have been 100% happy with it.
http://www.rayfoss.com/productn.asp?ArticleID=59
If I go to $200 dollars I may as well go all out and get the Spyder3 1W at $300, as I know it's going to be heat sinked much better and I can run it at lower power with the smart switch.
Anyhow it was this O-Like unit:
200mW blu-ray torch/adjustable/focusable [OL-405-200-T] - $105.99 : Welcome to O-Like.com, Your source for laser products
This uses the same housing as the "new Style 200MW Red" at Deal Extreme.
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.22933
The batteries were tested in an old style 200MW and proved to be just fine.
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.11315
The issue is odd, it still heats up over the 30 seconds and the case gets very warm, just the Laser LED gets barely bright enough to even project a dot, focused I would estimate that it is 1/1000mw power, in a dark room its hard to see the dot. I kid you not you could look down the lense at the LED, and with my glasses w/ lenses OD4 of 200-540nm , looking at the LED you clearly can see the anode and cathode wires inside going to the LED lighting surface and the small rectangular surface that is barely lighting up. Reverse collimation you actually can focus right in on the inside of the LED. It's actually pretty cool. You wouldn't be able to do that if it really had 200mw of light actually burning bright.
It came with a document that said not to run it more then 2 to 3 minutes at a time. So even my 30 seconds of use doesn't seem to be the issue. O-Like claims it could have happened in shipping. I think the LED is at fault. That it just burned the majority of itself out, or it fractured the lighting surface, as it still partially lights up and only a portion is lighting up.
Also, the dot wasn't circular when focused, it had an extreme comet tail coming off the small collimated dot which may have been a fracture on the LED lighting surface.
Anyhow, O-Like is providing replacement or refund, so it's not too big of a deal for me, except for the shipping time, I guess I can wait.
