[janoskiss (Steve H)]

Originally Posted by andrew

Thanks for all your help guys, I really appreciate it I've been taking a long hard look at the feedback this guy has gotten from other Ebay members and I have to admit the 943 positive comments to 0 negative comments is hard to ignore (and also he's based in China, where the laser comes from).

I think I will take a risk on this one, given the low price of $16 I won't be too annoyed if it's a fizzer as some of the above were, but hopefully there won't be any problems with it.

But then you'd still better leave positive feedback if you don't want to get negative feedback in return.

I think I see the ones you mean. Don't forget to figure in postage costs too! I also recommend you read some of the neutral and mutually withdrawn feedback comments.

I'd guess from people's descriptions in posts above that the laser is briefly overdriven when you turn it on in order to get anywhere close to 5mW of power, and then quickly drops to <1mW. Kind of like quoting max PMPO instead of RMS power for speakers. (Actually if you read the ad the power is stated as <5mW, between 2.1 and 4.9mW.)