But Comozo, this whole legality/safety issue does ring a bit hollow when it's one specific company being singled out again and again, while others are actively supported. Why is it that Atlasnova's 'CPF Special' is promoted and recommended to new users time and time again, with everyone being ok about it, despite the fact that they're every bit as illegal as WL's lasers, if I'm not mistaken ? (Being 30-40mW and thus class IIIB, but still 'pointers' without FDA required safety features).
I have no problem with people wanting to follow the rules and regulations, but shouldn't they apply to everyone ?
They do, but many people drive over the speed limit too.
In addition, with legality and FDA compliance being a major concern in this forum; shouldn't users then be discuraged from modding their legal class IIIA pointers into illegal class IIIB lasers ? In fact, since most of these will probably not recieve new stickers with the actual output after modding, you could argue that these are even more illegal - at least lasers manufactured to a specific output comes with the appropriate warning stickers. Yet, the safety and legality crusaders here apparantly have no problem with a large part of posts here being about how to do these modifications.
I'm sorry to have to say this so bluntly, but this really seems like double standards to me.
WL has or did have a particular philosophy which was clearly put forth of their site, but has since been modifed it seems, towards laws that govern other countries which could be summed up as
I don't care what your laws state, this is just for starters. All of the other companies keep a low profile that's why they are never trashed.
Regards,
Erling