Flashanator
Flashlight Enthusiast
Any Aussies game enough to order this baby? What with our laws & possible fines.
Yes, but wouldn't it be fun if all the journalists reading our posts with bated breath were to dig into Wicked Laser's shady history? I digress. WL's FBI rap sheet is for another thread.
Nobody is contesting whether the 445nm diode can do 1W or not. Everybody is curious about the beam divergence claim of 1.5mRad, though. This diode is transverse multimode, you will see a line of emission. Also, divergence will be crap on the fast-diverging axis.Sure, people are contesting whether the 445nm diode can do 1W or not, but nobody really has an issue with the beam divergence of 1.5 mRad...
God that would really suck; If it was not a circular beam
Leads me to believe there needs to be more efficient lenses to capture the entire emitting area
If I recall correctly, (buncha stuff about WL owner)
Yes, but wouldn't it be fun if all the journalists reading our posts with bated breath were to dig into Wicked Laser's shady (link)history? I digress. WL's FBI rap sheet is for another thread.
Leads me to believe there needs to be more efficient lenses to capture the entire emitting area
Here it is boys and girls.....
The Arctic III does in fact exisit!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-SduY4A2kE
Here it is boys and girls.....
The Arctic III does in fact exisit!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-SduY4A2kE
Based on all of the testing I have followed plotting these diodes and plotting myself, there should be no problem at all getting 1 watt out of the WL to meet their claim. Hell, I use a little heatsink for 1.1W and it gets warm, but that huge thing they are using should have no problem! That laser is way bigger than I had expected, or hoped for.
Where did you get the diode, if you don't mind me asking?
:duh2:That dot looks much better than I expected, small and round :thumbsup:
I wonder if it's just the video making it look better than it actually is or if wicked really solved the transverse multimode issue? Seems unlikely that they put anamorphic prisms and stuff in a $200 laser...
Anyway, that thing looks badass and I can't wait to get mine :naughty:
I too am waiting for the product to ship to actual customers (+ reviews). Once I see that happening I may put in an order for one. Personally I'd be okay with the diode only running at 0.5W. But I don't like how wicked has put the <1W marketing crud out there when what I really want to know is the minimum output. Beyond power output I'm also waiting for a review on the divergence.
Too good to be true was definitely my first thought, so I'm not jumping in without taking a look around first.
:duh2:
It's a 1.5mm speck of burning fire, I doubt its shape is apparent in a youtube video...?
So much for the theory of a grossly football shaped dot. Though the beam shot video has to be around 20 feet, I see no indication of ugliness. Now if they would release a 100 meter beam shot video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-SduY4A2kE#t=2m15s
Now I'd like to know how much of that side spillage is camera bloom, and how much is actual side spillage (flashlight).