Worlds brightest handheld laser

[lxskllr]

"Buy your very own anti-satellite laser turret!"

Finally! A defense against the government mind probes.

 

[Leros]

I've had several guides use them to point out stars. It works pretty well for that.

 

[Rubycon]

It's not a 1W laser, even their specs reveal 500-1000mW output power. People have received them that have proper ways to determine power and average is around 650mW when cold and it falls down quickly from there.

Additionally some of that power is remnants from DPSS operation (808 and 1064nm radiation) that gets passed out the output aperture due to a lack of IR filtering. (dangerous!)

Like all (Wicked Lasers) products, this is underperforming, lacking proper safeguards for its power class (carrying fake ascension numbers to attempt to get through customs), and generally poor designs for asking price. If you really want something like this it's better to find a more reputable seller/builder.

Head over to www.laserpointerforums.com for more information on that.

Above all, do not support this scamming company. They are worse than OCZ and yes that is saying a lot.

 

[Leros]

Rubycon has a hate-on for all things Wicked Laser.

 

[Rubycon]

Rubycon has a hate-on for all things Wicked Laser.

Just the facts.

Chris Tao and Steve Liu are the same person. Moving from Connecticut to China does not change your name.

He's just reselling CNI DPSS modules in a modified arctic host.

 

[El Guaraguao]

Finally! A defense against the government mind probes.

Close enough..

 

[Cheesetogo]

It's not a 1W laser, even their specs reveal 500-1000mW output power. People have received them that have proper ways to determine power and average is around 650mW when cold and it falls down quickly from there.

Additionally some of that power is remnants from DPSS operation (808 and 1064nm radiation) that gets passed out the output aperture due to a lack of IR filtering. (dangerous!)

Like all (Wicked Lasers) products, this is underperforming, lacking proper safeguards for its power class (carrying fake ascension numbers to attempt to get through customs), and generally poor designs for asking price. If you really want something like this it's better to find a more reputable seller/builder.

Head over to www.laserpointerforums.com for more information on that.

Above all, do not support this scamming company. They are worse than OCZ and yes that is saying a lot.

Sorry to go OT here, but I always considered OCZ as a reputable company. Care to elaborate/provide a link?

 

[Rubycon]

Sorry to go OT here, but I always considered OCZ as a reputable company. Care to elaborate/provide a link?

Go ahead and let them take your money but cry about it elsewhere when you are unhappy.
Their reputation? is well known amongst many online communities.

 

[0roo0roo]

yea but would a beam that bright be visible from the side? lighting up the dust etc? meaning you could easily find and beat down any f**ker that tried to eye blind you?

 

[ThatsABigOne]

Could this handheld light a match?

 

[Red Squirrel]

As cool as these things can be, in an indoor lab environment with proper eye gear and nobody else around, the fact that any joe blow can go and buy one of these really scares me.

The thought of losing my eye sight to some asshole on the street is not very comforting. The odds of it happening are probably slim, but as these things get more popular, more criminals will probably start carrying them.

 

[Nebor]

Sorry to go OT here, but I always considered OCZ as a reputable company. Care to elaborate/provide a link?

You're kidding, right? :\

OCZ is a pretty bad company.

 

[Nebor]

As cool as these things can be, in an indoor lab environment with proper eye gear and nobody else around, the fact that any joe blow can go and buy one of these really scares me.

The thought of losing my eye sight to some asshole on the street is not very comforting. The odds of it happening are probably slim, but as these things get more popular, more criminals will probably start carrying them.

Well with this thing he wouldn't have to be on the street. He could be in an office building 40 stories above you and still effectively blind you. Or on a mountain up above your city a few miles away. Technology is amazing. :awe:

 

[FaaR]

Their reputation? is well known amongst many online communities.

Anecdotal evidence is worse than useless.

That people post about having problems with OCZ products on internet forums is mostly because people don't tend to post when everything's working just fine. The same can be said about most any product/brand.

As for the topic, these things should absolutely be banned. There's zero reasons for regular people to own and use these extremely dangerous items.

Using it as a rescue device? Please... Lamest excuse I ever heard.

 

[Mark R]

I fail to see the point of this device.

It's a poor quality laser with poor stability and poor beam quality, making it unsuitable for scientific or industrial use, even hobbyists doing precision work (e.g. holographics) are likely to find this laser disappointing, apart from the power.

The only real uses for such a module would be for light-show purposes, and even then, the high-level of invisible IR contamination of the beam is undesirable.

For search and rescue a laser isn't an ideal device. Although, high intensity lasers can yield a visible beam, it is generally most visible from the source, and have very poor visibility from the side. I have a "50 mW" 532 laser, which from the operator's perspective produces a bright beam which can be used to point out stars, etc. However, from someone off-axis, the beam is much less bright. I've also tested it at right angles, shining it straight up adjacent to a building, and having someone look out of the window, and at 90 degrees, the beam is not visible, unless interrupted. I've also tested in wood/scrub land with some other people trying to point it at the others from a distance - it was incredibly disappointing.

About the only thing that was actually vaguely satisfying was pointing it at objects and lighting them up from a distance. However, this needed a clear line-of-sight, and the illumination of the object was not bright enough to be particularly noticable if you weren't actively looking for it in that area.

 

[dawp]

Anecdotal evidence is worse than useless.

That people post about having problems with OCZ products on internet forums is mostly because people don't tend to post when everything's working just fine. The same can be said about most any product/brand.

As for the topic, these things should absolutely be banned. There's zero reasons for regular people to own and use these extremely dangerous items.

Using it as a rescue device? Please... Lamest excuse I ever heard.

Not sure about their current state, but in the past they got into trouble for selling memory that was not able to run at rated speeds. I tend to shy away from all things OCZ.

 

[Broheim]

Anecdotal evidence is worse than useless.

That people post about having problems with OCZ products on internet forums is mostly because people don't tend to post when everything's working just fine. The same can be said about most any product/brand.

As for the topic, these things should absolutely be banned. There's zero reasons for regular people to own and use these extremely dangerous items.

Using it as a rescue device? Please... Lamest excuse I ever heard.

you somehow missed the 25nm vertex 2 fiasco?

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

I used to work with a 5W laser for scribing our products at work? Now it's a YAG laser so you won't see anything... so you just go blind instantly...

 

[Modelworks]

About the only thing that was actually vaguely satisfying was pointing it at objects and lighting them up from a distance. However, this needed a clear line-of-sight, and the illumination of the object was not bright enough to be particularly noticable if you weren't actively looking for it in that area.

You don't use a laser pointer for a rescue device for the same reasons you mentioned. You use a laser with a fanned output. If you have a laser level or one that outputs a line across a wall take that and pointing it at someone in the distance so the line is vertical to you , when you move that back and forth you create a wide area that looks like a flash in the distance. It looks very similar to when you use a mirror to signal someone except the range it can be seen is much further.
http://www.greatlandlaser.com/how-they-work.html

 

[Rubycon]

This is not a laser pointer but a portable laser module. [sic]

The only difference between men and boys is the price of their toys. Now I never consider a laser - even a legally powered "portable" FDA certified one - a toy but that's basically what you have here. Just something for enthusiasts/hobbyists alike with money to burn to make a beam streak across the sky or burn things.

Lighting matches takes only a well collimated 50mW beam. About half that power at 404nm can do this because of the focal point size difference. Of course everyone wants bigger/brighter LOL.

A proper rescue device is an EPIRB.
I suppose a decent green with a line generator and way to spin it *may* help S&R folks find you but think about how one finds themselves in such a pickle in the first place and the fragile DPSS unit will probably be in a non-operative state!

 

[TakeNoPrisoners]

Good self defence item. You don't need a gun when you can just burn out their eyes.

 

[Taejin]

This is not a laser pointer but a portable laser module. [sic]

The only difference between men and boys is the price of their toys. Now I never consider a laser - even a legally powered "portable" FDA certified one - a toy but that's basically what you have here. Just something for enthusiasts/hobbyists alike with money to burn to make a beam streak across the sky or burn things.

Lighting matches takes only a well collimated 50mW beam. About half that power at 404nm can do this because of the focal point size difference. Of course everyone wants bigger/brighter LOL.

A proper rescue device is an EPIRB.
I suppose a decent green with a line generator and way to spin it *may* help S&R folks find you but think about how one finds themselves in such a pickle in the first place and the fragile DPSS unit will probably be in a non-operative state!

rubycon always manages to make me feel inadequate :s

 

[lxskllr]

Good self defence item. You don't need a gun when you can just burn out their eyes.

Does anyone make a multisensory self defense weapon? A combo light strobe, air horn, and bear mace would be pretty intimidating. Disorient them with sound and light, and punish them with mace :^D

 

[Redfraggle]

Does anyone make a multisensory self defense weapon? A combo light strobe, air horn, and bear mace would be pretty intimidating. Disorient them with sound and light, and punish them with mace :^D

Considering the close range you'd need to successfully employ such a device, I wouldn't advise using one, even if it existed. The thing people often don't consider in using sprays is that you (the sprayer) are going to be affected as well.

 

[nanette1985]

I just picture the fun I'd have with some really big kitties. Who are wearing kitty laser goggles.