As requested, here's the Wicked Lasers Elite 150 review... sorry for the lack of pictures. I didn't have a camera at the time. I don't have a lot of time, either, so it's gonna be really short. If you want to know anything else, just ask.
Visual-
Honestly, this is one sexy laser. It has a nice gunmetal finish, and some grooves reminiscent of the Sonars. It seems to be well made, and it's very unique. It oozes hotness. ;D
Construction-
It's fairly similar to CNI pens. There were a few spots where it wasn't up-to-par... part of the assembly beneath the aperture cap was loose, and it scratched the lens a few times before I got it fastened down. Some of the threads are misshaped, and the aperture isn't even close to centered. There are also some serious contact issues... half the time it won't even turn on, and usually when it does you have to tap it a few times before it'll work properly.
Performance-
This thing is extremely unstable. I did 4 30-second runs, with these results:
Avg 1: 134mW
Peak 1: 170mW
Avg 2: 74mW
Peak 2: 80mW
Avg 3: 162mW
Peak 3: 196mW
Avg 4: 59mW
Peak 4: 136mW
Yeah. That's how spastic it is.
The divergence was 1.8mRad... a bit over the 1.2 that WL advertises.
It ran mostly in TEM00, but it did hit TEM01 a few times.
Overall-
It's not a good laser... not by my standards anyways. It wasn't made well, struggled to stay above spec, and just failed to satisfy at all. Probably about the same that you'd expect from DX.
RATING-
4/10
And, just so you know, this is the laser that WL sent out to the winner of the Instructables contest at LC. It already had to be RMA'd once. Sucks that they won't even send out a good laser to a freakin contest winner.
Visual-
Honestly, this is one sexy laser. It has a nice gunmetal finish, and some grooves reminiscent of the Sonars. It seems to be well made, and it's very unique. It oozes hotness. ;D
Construction-
It's fairly similar to CNI pens. There were a few spots where it wasn't up-to-par... part of the assembly beneath the aperture cap was loose, and it scratched the lens a few times before I got it fastened down. Some of the threads are misshaped, and the aperture isn't even close to centered. There are also some serious contact issues... half the time it won't even turn on, and usually when it does you have to tap it a few times before it'll work properly.
Performance-
This thing is extremely unstable. I did 4 30-second runs, with these results:
Avg 1: 134mW
Peak 1: 170mW
Avg 2: 74mW
Peak 2: 80mW
Avg 3: 162mW
Peak 3: 196mW
Avg 4: 59mW
Peak 4: 136mW
Yeah. That's how spastic it is.
The divergence was 1.8mRad... a bit over the 1.2 that WL advertises.
It ran mostly in TEM00, but it did hit TEM01 a few times.
Overall-
It's not a good laser... not by my standards anyways. It wasn't made well, struggled to stay above spec, and just failed to satisfy at all. Probably about the same that you'd expect from DX.
RATING-
4/10
And, just so you know, this is the laser that WL sent out to the winner of the Instructables contest at LC. It already had to be RMA'd once. Sucks that they won't even send out a good laser to a freakin contest winner.
Although they could probably figure it out.
