From what I understood they metered all their lasers to make sure they were on-spec. :thinking: How come your first one was under-spec?
I like this host a lot. I always felt like I was carrying a pipe with the Arctic. I really like the convenience of pocketing my lasers.
Basically Jerry already covered everything
Actually even before these lasers were sent out at all Max did say on the open forum in another thread that he expected the original lasers to do between 700mW and 1W. He since relisted them as 800mW instead of 1W, and even mine, which seems to have turned out on the low end, is still within 10% of 800mW.
It is a breath of fresh air to have a more budget laser seller who actually listens to his customers.
Compared to the regular arctic, I like this host A LOT more. It is on the border of what I consider to be pockeatable, but it is much more compact than the original arctic, and a better laser overall imho. This one I would stick in my pocket. If anyone wants I can take pictures next to some other common hosts to give a better sense of dimensions.
The heatsinking on it is not great... but it gets the job done just fine. The diffraction tips are icing on the cake... on a humid night it looks spectacular outside.
If you are after just the host though and plan to gut it, there was a red laser in the same host for quite a bit less, on fp i think.
I'll will be sending this laser to Lazeerer on thursday/friday, for his custom driver... so we'll have a more expert opinion on this laser as a whole soon I think
@Jerry - Didn't know that the software had that option... I used excel to create a scatter plot and added some effects
