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friends, it's been a while but I haven't been far. In the quest for cyan i sacrificed an arm and a leg to purchase the Surefire X400 green laser/light weapon attachment. Price: $699:(
This review is not on the Surefire light but mostly a BRIEF laser comparison. I want to apologize ahead of time for not being able to go further in depth with testing but with my traveling I literally had just a few hours after unboxing.
Without further ado: please click on the thumbnails.
This well constructed pistol/rifle apparatus is the arguably the best on the market with a toggle switch between laser, light, light & laser all within a fingers reach. Windage & elevation are fully adjustable with two Allen keys.
:thinking: first I notice a super crisp clean beam, than after a few minutes horrific artifacts. Damnit! A fatal flaw in design the outermost lens cover was fully exposed, a single finger print causes the beam profile to smudge and almost look sword like. Nervously I looked over the literature and top page under bold text instructs to use LensPen to clean lense. This resolved all problems:)
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The color
Wow, this is my first 505nm experience and it's super cool! But without a spectometer I used known wavelengths to compare. In this case my ML argon run on low power. I concluded this most closely resembles the 501.7line(at this power it's very close to thatnext line 596.5) far left is a 5mW 532 DPSS
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I immediately ordered the new bad boy on the market, 35mW sharp "505" I slapped it in a stainless steel survival laser host and compared the two. Yuck. Now, beam divergence aside the diode I ordered was extremely green very much resembling my 520nm. Disappointment set in(you'll get this once and a while when purchasing new diodes.)
Top Surefire bottom Sharp diode.
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The beam from the Surefire X400 GN appears very close to that of my argon laser. Accompanied with the laser was a handwritten stamp certification the laser was in spec. 5mW 505nm. I would expect nothing less after spending damn near $700
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Conclusion. Happy with my new lasers! Hopefully much of this wasn't covered in the thread regarding this new 505 diode I've read much but not all!
Thanks for reading :wave:
friends, it's been a while but I haven't been far. In the quest for cyan i sacrificed an arm and a leg to purchase the Surefire X400 green laser/light weapon attachment. Price: $699:(
This review is not on the Surefire light but mostly a BRIEF laser comparison. I want to apologize ahead of time for not being able to go further in depth with testing but with my traveling I literally had just a few hours after unboxing.
Without further ado: please click on the thumbnails.
This well constructed pistol/rifle apparatus is the arguably the best on the market with a toggle switch between laser, light, light & laser all within a fingers reach. Windage & elevation are fully adjustable with two Allen keys.
:thinking: first I notice a super crisp clean beam, than after a few minutes horrific artifacts. Damnit! A fatal flaw in design the outermost lens cover was fully exposed, a single finger print causes the beam profile to smudge and almost look sword like. Nervously I looked over the literature and top page under bold text instructs to use LensPen to clean lense. This resolved all problems:)
Attachment 56891
The color
Wow, this is my first 505nm experience and it's super cool! But without a spectometer I used known wavelengths to compare. In this case my ML argon run on low power. I concluded this most closely resembles the 501.7line(at this power it's very close to thatnext line 596.5) far left is a 5mW 532 DPSS
Attachment 56892
I immediately ordered the new bad boy on the market, 35mW sharp "505" I slapped it in a stainless steel survival laser host and compared the two. Yuck. Now, beam divergence aside the diode I ordered was extremely green very much resembling my 520nm. Disappointment set in(you'll get this once and a while when purchasing new diodes.)
Top Surefire bottom Sharp diode.
Attachment 56893
Attachment 56895
The beam from the Surefire X400 GN appears very close to that of my argon laser. Accompanied with the laser was a handwritten stamp certification the laser was in spec. 5mW 505nm. I would expect nothing less after spending damn near $700
Attachment 56897
Attachment 56894Attachment 56898
Conclusion. Happy with my new lasers! Hopefully much of this wasn't covered in the thread regarding this new 505 diode I've read much but not all!
Thanks for reading :wave: