mikeeey
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I got my Arctic just 4 days before my 19th birthday, hooray! Too bad I bought it 3 months prior.
The laser's "package" was like a grey garbage bag. Inside this grey plastic bag each item was nicely fit into bubblewrap like tetris pieces.
Each day I envisioned myself opening up the box and seeing each lens side by side, but instead they forgot to give me my expanded lens set, so I was disappointed to only see the training lens.
(these 4 picture were taken with my cell phone at my friend's house, I opened it there before I bought it home and took the below pictures with my camera)
The host really feels nice, the tailcap button is sturdy, the tailcap itself unscrews and screws back in like butter. Everything about the outside feels perfect, except for the fact that it's WAY too big.
If you look at the yellow sticker it says it was manufactured in June.
PICS:
ImageShack(TM) slideshow (click this slideshow or the below link if you don't wanna click each picture)
ImageShack Album - 18 images
(each picture is clickable. Click the larger picture on imageshack to view the full-res picture)
YOUTUBE VIDEO:
this video shows the smartswitch, the first 2 times slowly shows it, the 3rd time shows how fast the user is able to turn it on, making it less annoying
EDIT: it's dead, well, not really, the wires to the diode pins just came loose, but I'm already starting to dislike it, I'm not gonna try and fix it, I'm just gonna send it back and get the Spartan. I thought about selling it for profit, but there's the possibility that it was killed when the negative wire came loose and start touching everything else. Then the positive wire came loose. If it managed to kill itself while the wires came apart I wouldn't wanna try and sell that, I'm just gonna send it back.
PROS:
+Looks awesome, feels nice
+Interchangeable lens's
+Included laser shades are NICE
+light up smartswitch and battery indicator
CONS:
-smartswitch is annoying, can't simply just turn it on to quickly point
-3 second delay after entering smarswitch combination
-not 1W, probably a little over 700mW
-the inside is a MESS, the soldering was poor, it came loose
-customer service sucks, they also forgot my expanded lens kit
WAY too big, it's taller than a water bottle.
Burning tests:
White paper - Made a hole, no fire... failed
black magazine - Made a hole, no fire... failed
candle - smoked... failed
skin - OUCH... success
(not too long after is when it wouldn't turn on and I unscrewed it to look at the inside)
For 1W I'm not going to try the basic tests like lighting a match and popping a balloon, I'm going to do the tests that should be expected of it's advertised output.
overall rating:
It's alright, but I'd expect much more, and I am returning it.
Rating: ★★★☆☆
DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES TRY TO UNSCREW THIS PIECE IF YOU WAN'T YOUR LASER TO CONTINUE WORKING
Mine came undone from a poor soldering job and a tight negative wire. I then unscrewed it to troubleshoot the problem and found the positive had also came off in the process. There should be no reason to take the G2 Arctic apart anyway because I assume you can't change the current now due to the smartswitch.
The laser's "package" was like a grey garbage bag. Inside this grey plastic bag each item was nicely fit into bubblewrap like tetris pieces.
Each day I envisioned myself opening up the box and seeing each lens side by side, but instead they forgot to give me my expanded lens set, so I was disappointed to only see the training lens.
(these 4 picture were taken with my cell phone at my friend's house, I opened it there before I bought it home and took the below pictures with my camera)
The host really feels nice, the tailcap button is sturdy, the tailcap itself unscrews and screws back in like butter. Everything about the outside feels perfect, except for the fact that it's WAY too big.
If you look at the yellow sticker it says it was manufactured in June.
PICS:
ImageShack(TM) slideshow (click this slideshow or the below link if you don't wanna click each picture)
ImageShack Album - 18 images
(each picture is clickable. Click the larger picture on imageshack to view the full-res picture)
YOUTUBE VIDEO:
this video shows the smartswitch, the first 2 times slowly shows it, the 3rd time shows how fast the user is able to turn it on, making it less annoying
EDIT: it's dead, well, not really, the wires to the diode pins just came loose, but I'm already starting to dislike it, I'm not gonna try and fix it, I'm just gonna send it back and get the Spartan. I thought about selling it for profit, but there's the possibility that it was killed when the negative wire came loose and start touching everything else. Then the positive wire came loose. If it managed to kill itself while the wires came apart I wouldn't wanna try and sell that, I'm just gonna send it back.
PROS:
+Looks awesome, feels nice
+Interchangeable lens's
+Included laser shades are NICE
+light up smartswitch and battery indicator
CONS:
-smartswitch is annoying, can't simply just turn it on to quickly point
-3 second delay after entering smarswitch combination
-not 1W, probably a little over 700mW
-the inside is a MESS, the soldering was poor, it came loose
-customer service sucks, they also forgot my expanded lens kit
WAY too big, it's taller than a water bottle.
Burning tests:
White paper - Made a hole, no fire... failed
black magazine - Made a hole, no fire... failed
candle - smoked... failed
skin - OUCH... success
(not too long after is when it wouldn't turn on and I unscrewed it to look at the inside)
For 1W I'm not going to try the basic tests like lighting a match and popping a balloon, I'm going to do the tests that should be expected of it's advertised output.
overall rating:
It's alright, but I'd expect much more, and I am returning it.
Rating: ★★★☆☆
DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES TRY TO UNSCREW THIS PIECE IF YOU WAN'T YOUR LASER TO CONTINUE WORKING
Mine came undone from a poor soldering job and a tight negative wire. I then unscrewed it to troubleshoot the problem and found the positive had also came off in the process. There should be no reason to take the G2 Arctic apart anyway because I assume you can't change the current now due to the smartswitch.
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