GSO Laser Collimator

[pmrid (Peter)]

Is this the way it's meant to be?
This collimator does not project a dot-point but rather a poorly defined linear shape. Projecting it about e metres onto a wall, the pattern is about 20mm long and 3mm wide with poorly defiuned borders.
Makes collimation more miss than hit, it seems to me. Can it be fixed?
Peter

[toryglen-boy (Duncan)]

Originally Posted by pmrid

Is this the way it's meant to be?
This collimator does not project a dot-point but rather a poorly defined linear shape. Projecting it about e metres onto a wall, the pattern is about 20mm long and 3mm wide with poorly defiuned borders.
Makes collimation more miss than hit, it seems to me. Can it be fixed?
Peter

Hi Peter

I use one, and it projects a point of light, not a pin point small dot, but a point of light nonetheless, even from several metres back, its still a point of light ...

sounds like yours is borked

[Moon (James)]

This collimator does not project a dot-point but rather a poorly defined linear shape. Projecting it about e metres onto a wall, the pattern is about 20mm long and 3mm wide with poorly defiuned borders.

Mine does this too. I'm thinking about sending it back.

[pmrid (Peter)]

Originally Posted by Moon

Mine does this too. I'm thinking about sending it back.

I would too - if I could remember were I got it!!
Peter

[BerrieK]

Sounds like your laser collimator needs collimating itself. I think I remember reading instruction on how to do this somewhere in the IIS forums. Or did I google it and fing an article somewhere else? (I cant remember, being blonde and all...). But with a little patience it's not too hard to do.

Kerrie

[bmitchell82 (Brendan)]

ide say the laser pointer is stuffed, they use a lens to collminate the laser beam to a point, if that lens isn't ring it will diffuse the beam (which is what your seeing). Laser light points straight and only diffuses if it passes though a medium with a different refraction index, further more if this medium isn't square the light will not pass straight, it will curve away from the original beam path.

[Moon (James)]

Mine does this too. I'm thinking about sending it back.

Well I called them and was told : this is how it's meant to be!!
So my advice: do not buy this product. I'm also going to be a little bit more careful where I buy my stuff from now on.

[toryglen-boy (Duncan)]

Originally Posted by Moon

Well I called them and was told : this is how it's meant to be!!
So my advice: do not buy this product. I'm also going to be a little bit more careful where I buy my stuff from now on.

James, whoever told you that is talking cobblers.

So that must mean the hundreds of us who use one, with a point of light, must have it all wrong, and they must all be broken!

schisters ...

[shane.mcneil]

Mine is the same. If you pull it apart you'll see that you can put whatever laser pointer you want into the holder. There must have been a special on pointers with a "-" rather than a "." You could put a different pointer into the holder if you have one (make sure you the collimate it) or just stick with it as is. It happens that the "-" mine projects is exactly the width of my mirror midpoint mark. So I still can still just line the projection across the mark.

Regards

Shane