If you want a very good laser pointer,I put a link for this. https://www.sanwulasers.com/ .
They make very good ,but of course expensive lasers.I have got from them a 5W blue one.Very strong.And dangerous…
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I use green lasers for astronomy, I have a 50mw ,27mw & 17mw, they can be dangerous in the wrong hands.
There will never be an “Osram verison” because this light isn’t using an LED, that’s the whole point of it. A white flat zoomie or traditional thrower can be built right now.
I think Matt’s example with the diffuser material shows that isn’t the case. 400-500 lumens from even a floody beam is very bright at night still.
Just received mine in neutral white. It’s a yellow tint in the daytime but looking forward to testing tonight.
I’ll echo the safety precautions here. Even in the daytime a quick ceiling bounce test was “blinding” - this light is extremely powerful and abundant caution should be used when handling.
I think I have the W30 in one hand,and the 5W blue laser in the other.In a state of emergency,I light up the face of the intruder with the W30,and if it is not enough,I light the laser, so he will be blind in a part of a second. :innocent:
I think the real danger with this torch is it will get mis classified by people who do not understand the technology as a Laser pointer, imagine trying to explain to an over zealous law officer that despite this product being referred to as a white laser and also containing a Class 3b or above laser diode it is in fact not a laser at all simply a torch……… I have an idea how its going to go and i suspect its going to suck.
I just had a look at the documentation and its been classified as a Class 2M laser by the manufacturer, In the UK its legal to own any laser even nasty Class 4s, but if you are using it outside and get deemed to have misused it(even if you haven’t) then it comes under some pretty nasty laws with serious penalties
I totally understand that this doesn’t output coherent laser light , it is simply exciting phosphor with one but with that classification it could be tricky to defend.
The trouble is they(the police) are going to see this pencil thin beam quite unlike any normal flashlight they have ever seen , check the manufacturer see Class 2m Laser and arrest you probably then offering you a choice of surrendering it (confiscation) or taking your chances in court , either option kinda sucks.
It really doesn’t help the situation having sellers referring to it as
If a cop stops you, what they see is a flashlight. They know the difference between a laser and a flashlight. A laser can blind a pilot at 15000 feet, the W30 is bright out to 2000ish meters.
I got to play around with the high CRI W30. What a crazy thing.
The spot has some serious rainbow and a green tint in the middle, but it doesn’t really matter at distance. I’d love to see the 4000K low CRI version, since it probably has about 25% more output. I got 324 lumens from this one with an almost full battery at 30 seconds.
Here’s the CRI data integrated. It’s not high CRI as we would normally define it, but for a LEP it’s quite impressive. Measuring the spot reliably would need a lot more distance than I have available indoors. Even a small movement causes the results to vary too much for anything meaningful. Same goes for throw measurements.
Maukka, you got a good sample of the W30 CRI. The one I got measured only 228 lumens at turn-on. I sent it to Vinh for boosting and he got it to 300 lumens, which we both measured the same.
Measuring the beam distance on this light takes some work. I tested multiple times at 15 meters and then again at 10m just to verify. You also need a way to make slow/small adjustments to the light position on the tripod, and a video camera set up to record whats being input to the meter because your so far a way. I wish so much that a wireless light meter existed!