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UPDATE: 12/09/2011
Hello Everyone!
Well I decided to do a better review of this laser; I realized that my other might have been lacking some material. The laser I ordered from wicked lasers was a S3 Krypton 300mw.
Well I love this laser 10/10. It’s over spec, big time, here are the latest LPM results using the laser bee 2.5 USB. I got an Average of 500mw (it took while for the LPM to catch up and I was told to by Cyparagon to ignore the first 40 seconds of the LPM) and with a peak of 611mw, that is more than the warning label on my laser <500mw. It doesn’t tend to maintain any stability in high power mode, usually for about a minute at most, and it jumps around +/- 20 mw. But, I don’t know if that’s due to the LPM or the laser itself.
The laser does take a while for it to warm up. I suspect that is due to the cold weather here in Oregon, but the laser usually gives me a peak of 450mw and remains in 400mw range, but today I noticed it was brighter and this is what the power meter told me and I noticed that it was exceptionally brighter even with the lights on in my room.
Well since I got an Over spec laser maybe its IR? So I did a test and here is my setup.
Here are my results:
The laser is in low power (the laser is really stable in low power) and maintained about 90mw and the spike in the graph was due to the piece of paper that was in the setup getting in the way. So, with the glasses O.D 2.2 only .56 mw of green light should have passed through.
Well I let the sensor zero itself out and then later begin the test with the glasses in front of the laser, as shown it maintained zero with some weird spikes (the highest being 4 mw) but then they quickly go back down. So I think my laser might not have much IR. But, I have heard that this model struggles with small values, so I don’t know for sure.
Well the stated divergence is 1.5mrad, and the beam at aperture should be 1.5mm. Well I put a “see through” ruler and measured the dot at aperture and it came to be 1-1.5mm, a little closer to 1mm than 1.5mm. The only thing left is divergence, so I aimed my laser 3 meters away from my door and measured a dot of 5mm. Wasn’t exactly 3 meters but I made sure it was more than that, to be on the safe side. Doing some calculations the expected should have been 6 mm and it sounds about right. So the divergence passed.
The laser burns just about anything that’s not white or reflective. Burns matches like crazy. AWESOME!!
Overall, I am extremely satisfied with my laser.
Here are some pictures of the laser in action:
All the lights are turned on and I’m just amazed how well it can be seen.
Total internal reflection here, the laser was on low power and lights were off.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Overall Summary~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Pros:
Awesome host!
Thin beam with stated divergence met
Bright!
Powerful!
Cons:
Wish I bought the laser a little later since wicked price cut this laser and includes a tripod and lens expansion kit with every S3 model.
I apologize for my grammar/ spelling errors. I’m not a big fan of grammar. For spelling, I’ll let F7 take care of most of them.
If there are any improvements I can make please let me know.
Thank you,
Dopey
Hello Everyone!
Well I decided to do a better review of this laser; I realized that my other might have been lacking some material. The laser I ordered from wicked lasers was a S3 Krypton 300mw.
Well I love this laser 10/10. It’s over spec, big time, here are the latest LPM results using the laser bee 2.5 USB. I got an Average of 500mw (it took while for the LPM to catch up and I was told to by Cyparagon to ignore the first 40 seconds of the LPM) and with a peak of 611mw, that is more than the warning label on my laser <500mw. It doesn’t tend to maintain any stability in high power mode, usually for about a minute at most, and it jumps around +/- 20 mw. But, I don’t know if that’s due to the LPM or the laser itself.
The laser does take a while for it to warm up. I suspect that is due to the cold weather here in Oregon, but the laser usually gives me a peak of 450mw and remains in 400mw range, but today I noticed it was brighter and this is what the power meter told me and I noticed that it was exceptionally brighter even with the lights on in my room.
Well since I got an Over spec laser maybe its IR? So I did a test and here is my setup.
Here are my results:
The laser is in low power (the laser is really stable in low power) and maintained about 90mw and the spike in the graph was due to the piece of paper that was in the setup getting in the way. So, with the glasses O.D 2.2 only .56 mw of green light should have passed through.
Well I let the sensor zero itself out and then later begin the test with the glasses in front of the laser, as shown it maintained zero with some weird spikes (the highest being 4 mw) but then they quickly go back down. So I think my laser might not have much IR. But, I have heard that this model struggles with small values, so I don’t know for sure.
Well the stated divergence is 1.5mrad, and the beam at aperture should be 1.5mm. Well I put a “see through” ruler and measured the dot at aperture and it came to be 1-1.5mm, a little closer to 1mm than 1.5mm. The only thing left is divergence, so I aimed my laser 3 meters away from my door and measured a dot of 5mm. Wasn’t exactly 3 meters but I made sure it was more than that, to be on the safe side. Doing some calculations the expected should have been 6 mm and it sounds about right. So the divergence passed.
The laser burns just about anything that’s not white or reflective. Burns matches like crazy. AWESOME!!
Overall, I am extremely satisfied with my laser.
Here are some pictures of the laser in action:
All the lights are turned on and I’m just amazed how well it can be seen.
Total internal reflection here, the laser was on low power and lights were off.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Overall Summary~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Pros:
Awesome host!
Thin beam with stated divergence met
Bright!
Powerful!
Cons:
Wish I bought the laser a little later since wicked price cut this laser and includes a tripod and lens expansion kit with every S3 model.
I apologize for my grammar/ spelling errors. I’m not a big fan of grammar. For spelling, I’ll let F7 take care of most of them.
If there are any improvements I can make please let me know.
Thank you,
Dopey
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. Damn that deal sounds good! Do those lasers have continuous duty cycles? And where could I get those?
