BLUE BEAST
RED LASER POINTER

Blue Beast Red Laser Pointer, retail $5.99
Manufactured by (Unknown)
Last updated 10-28-08




This is a laser pointer that emits just under 5mW at 656.1nm in the red region of the spectrum.
Being advertised as a 650nm laser, the seller is reasonably true to their word - diode lasers generally have a tolerance of +-10nm.

Like many other "pointer"-style lasers, it comes in a metal body with what I believe is a baked enamel dark blue finish, and feeds from two AAA cells held in its barrel.


SIZE



Like most other laser pointers/self-contained laser modules, this product is easy to use.
Just aim it at something you wish to point out, and press & hold down the button on the barrel for as long as you need the laser spot.
Release the button to turn the laser module back off. Yes, it really is as easy as that.



To change the batteries in your red laser pointer, unscrew and remove the tailcap, gently place it on the ground, and kick it into the garden so the hungry, hungry praying mantids will think it's something yummy to eat and subsequently strike at it...O WAIT!!! YOU'LL NEED THAT!!! So just set it aside instead.

Tip the two used AAA cells out of the barrel and into your hand, and dispose of, recycle, or recharge them as you see fit.

Insert two new AAA cells into the barrel, flat-end (-) negative first. This is the opposite of how batteries are installed in most flashlights, so please pay attention to polarity here.

Screw the tailcap back on, and be done with it.
Aren't you glad you didn't kick that tailcap into the garden with all those hungry, hungry praying mantids now?


Here is what a praying mantis looks like.
I found this guy on the morning of 09-08-06 clinging to the basket of my scooter.

Current usage measures 31.3mA on my DMM's 400mA scale.



This is a laser (or "lazer") module, not a flashlight meant to be thrashed and abused; so I won't do the smack test on it. I know you love to see me break things, but it "ain't" "gonna" happen today, folks. So I won't throw it against the wall, stomp on it, try to drown it in the toylet bowl or the cistern, run over it, swing it against the concrete floor of a patio, use a small sledgehammer in order to bash it open to check it for candiosity, fire it from the cannoņata, drop it down the top of Mt. Erupto (I guess I've been watching the TV program "Viva Piņata" too much again - candiosity is usually checked with a laser-type device on a platform with a large readout (located at Piņata Central), with a handheld wand that Langston Lickatoad uses, or with a pack-of-cards-sized device that Fergy Fudgehog uses; the cannoņata (also located at Piņata Central) is only used to shoot piņatas to piņata parties away from picturesque Piņata Island, and Mt. Erupto is an active volcano on Piņata Island {In the episode "Les Saves the Day...Again", Paulie Preztail says "Hey, ever wonder why this park's called 'Mount Erupto' anyway?", then Franklin Fizzlybear says "I think its an old native term. Means 'very safe.'"}), send it to the Daystrom Institute for additional analysis, or inflict upon it punishments that flashlights may have inflicted upon them. So this section of the flashlight / pointer / laser's web page will seem a bit more bare than this section of the web page on a page about a flashlight that was born to be a flashlight and nothing but a flashlight.





Beam photograph at 12".
The artifacts ("halo") outside the beam are mainly caused by the camera.
That white and yellow color does not exist in reality.
Measures 4.56mW on a laser power meter specifically for this purpose.



Beam photograph at ~10'.

Those rectangular graphic things in the upper right quadrant of this photograph are marquees from:

Atari ''Tempest''
Venture Line ''Looping''
Jaleco ''Exerion''

upright coin-op arcade video games from the 1980s.

And those colored graphics toward the left are my "Viva Piņata" posters.


Spectrographic plot
Spectrographic analysis of this laser.


Spectrographic plot
Same as above; spectrometer's response narrowed to a range of 645nm to 665nm.
The peak wavelength is ~656.1nm and the spectral line halfwidth is ~1.95nm.





TEST NOTES:
Test unit was purchased on Ebay on 10-13-08, and was received on the morning of 10-18-08.


UPDATE: 00-00-00



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CONS:



    MANUFACTURER: Unknown
    PRODUCT TYPE: Red laser pointer
    LAMP TYPE: Laser diode
    No. OF LAMPS: 1
    BEAM TYPE: Very narrow spot, it's a laser, remember?
    SWITCH TYPE: Momentary pushbutton on/off on barrel
    CASE MATERIAL: Metal
    BEZEL: Brass; lens slightly recessed into hosel for it
    BATTERY: 2xAAA cells
    CURRENT CONSUMPTION: 31.3mA
    WATER RESISTANT: No
    SUBMERSIBLE: No
    ACCESSORIES: None
    WARRANTY: Unknown/not stated

    PRODUCT RATING:

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