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Artix said:[quote author=Spyderz20x6 link=1215835001/100#107 date=1218745639][quote author=RA_pierce link=1215835001/100#106 date=1218744783][quote author=Spyderz20x6 link=1215835001/100#105 date=1218742055]
A 200mW Orion that outputs 500mW? *smirk*
By the way, it is a 9mm diode, so you could pit it in a meredith module. It is multimode, so it has horrible beam specs. Then for heatsinking, use a big block of aluminum.
Notice he said "LIKE" the Orion 200. Not "IS" the Orion 200.
I've been playing around with the pump diode of my X105 (now G105 ;D) and with the right lens, the beam isn't that bad. Yeah, it's pretty bad if you want nearly zero divergence and a round gaussian beam, but the point of a 500mW laser (at least in the hobbyist community) is to burn. If someone wanted a red laser for pointing they'd build a 20X DVD burner laser or go to office depot. So I really don't think multimode diodes have horrible specs, it all depends on the use for the laser and what one would classify as "horrible." Personally, now that I've played with a few hundred mW of multimode IR, I think the square beam is fun ;D.[/quote]
Well, i guess your right. The Orion has only one model. I checked just now, and it is not 500mW, but it is 200mW.[/quote]
Maybe he means that it just looks like the Orion 200 but is 500mW. But what diode does it use?[/quote]
There is no such thing as an Orion 200. It is just an Orion from the Orion series. One is a 200mW Orion, and one is a 500mW Orion. Do you see Orion 200 in the title? no.