Today I have a laser pointer to review for you guys, some of you may remember I did a review on that blue one watt Gatling laser pointer. This one is the same laser, the same host but it's a green version of it. They advertise this as a 1 watt burning laser as well. I am a bit skeptical on that though, because one watt green lasers usually go for a lot more than this one cost. This one only cost me about $37 dollars. I guess it's probably not going to be one watt, but I hope it will be stronger than your average Chinese green laser.

 

Open this up, the first thing that I see is the battery. This comes with two batteries, and a charger along with the laser and the star cap. It takes an 18650 battery and a little cheap charger. It charges two batteries at once, and has the little flip out piece on the back that goes into the wall. Those batteries are 18650 3.7 volt, 5000 milliamp, ultrafire batteries. I’m pretty sure this laser can also use two 16340 batteries in place of the 18650. I have this laser in the blue version, and it came with 16340s. It uses two of them because they’re like half the size of an 18650. I haven’t confirmed that, but if somebody wants to try that out, I’m sure it would work.

Talk about the laser itself and it already has the star cap on the top of it. It's already screwed into the top. It didn't come with any sort of instructions, so you do have to figure this out yourself. The laser feels really good, just like the blue version I have. Full metal build, it has a really nice weight to it. It has a nice black button on the bottom which also seems good quality. And I liked that a lot with my other laser.

It has silver star cap screwed onto the top, which is also metal. It spins right below the treaded area, and when you spin that you feel like you unscrew it, but it's actually not unscrewing at all. Spinning that top area is just to make all the dots move, you’re in the galaxy effect to make them all go in and out of each other. You have to try to grab the star cap from the very base of it, so that you're not just spinning the top of it. Then you're unscrewing the whole thing. I like the star cap, it’s metal, good quality and has some treads. Also a little o-ring on it, a really nice grip.

Next up I show you guys the focusable feature. Because this laser is capable of focusing, so obviously if they advertise it as a burning laser, it does need to focus.

This top piece on the laser actually turns and what turning that does is it actually focuses the laser in and out. You would put one 18650 battery positive side up, or you could put in 2 16340 batteries, I believe that would also work as well. It turns on right away.

You basically just push that button on the bottom, once to turn it on, and once to turn that off. I like it a lot that way, I don’t really like the lasers where you have to hold down the button while you’re using it. I really like the lasers, where you can just push it once on push it once off.

I test this out in a dimly lit indoor setting, and the dot is very bright. it’s not like the thickest or craziest looking beam. Green beams are normally small in diameter anyway, blue ones are pretty thick and the green ones are pretty thin. But it isn’t the most visible, it’s pretty much the same visibility as my laser at 303.

One thing I also want to point out, the beam is actually a little bit misaligned with the laser. it’s a little bit crooked. I’m not a big fan of that, I really hate when they don’t line these up correctly. This one isn’t like crazy misaligned, but it definitely is noticeable when I’m looking down the line of Glazer.

I’m not a fan of them, it is aligned beam, and I’m also not a fan of how dim it is. it’s not as bright as I was expecting. it does seem the same brightness as my laser 303.

Moving to the outdoor test. The beam obviously isn’t visible. I don’t really have any lasers where the beam is visible during day time. But the dot is very visible, and you can see it from several hundred feet away.

At the night time setting, I get the same performance. I would see out of my five-dollar laser 303. I mean, you can see the beam. It’s really cool for somebody who hasn’t had a laser. that’s this strong yet but I really don’t think that this is too much stronger than my laser 303.

I do the star cap test to show you guys what that looks like. I do always like these star cap tests. You can’t really get one of these wrong. These do look really cool and they would make a really cool party effect, if you ever wanted to show them off to friends.

I wouldn’t keep your laser on for more than 90 seconds to 120 seconds, though you don’t want to burn out the diode. So I wouldn’t like set this up for a party and leave it on the whole time. Because you definitely will destroy your laser.

 

That's The star cap test looks like, and I move on to the LPM test.

 

we can actually figure out the true power of this laser. I use my LPM and fire this up. It is probably about 90 milliwatts, and that’s pretty disappointing. I know they advertise this as one watt, and I said it wouldn’t be one watt. But I was hoping it would be at least maybe 200 milliwatts for $37.

 

Basically what we get here, I think is the same exact laser diodes that are put into the laser at the laser 303. Because so far, this laser has been performing exactly like my laser 303, and my laser 303 had an average power of 90 milliwatts. So I think they’re using the same diodes, just putting them in fancier hosts and then selling it for $30 more.

I'm not a big fan of this one so far, I move on to the burn test, so we can see how well it burns.

 

Whenever you’re using lasers, you should wear laser safety glasses. I wear my wicked lasers laser shades, and slowly turn that little focusing dial on the top of the laser. Aiming it at the charger, until you see a little bit of smoke coming off. It makes little tiny edge marks and carvings on the charger, and you don’t need to worry about this destroying your charger. It’s basically just making very very small scratch marks on it, similar to if you had scratched it with your finger nails. it’s not going to burn all the way through and destroy the charger.

 

I do have a little smoke come off there and I make little edge marks. You could even get creative with this, and you could H in your name if you wanted to. I’ve done that before, but what this basically means is, I have my laser focused correctly and it’s ready to burn.

Move on to the matches. I go from the same distance I was just going from with the black charger. In that way I get the same focus. The matches they’re both red top matches, but I colored one of them in with black sharpie on the top, in case I’m not able to burn the normal one.

 

I had zero success lighting the normal match. I didn’t even see any smoke coming off. To the black tip match, I’ve been trying it out for two to three minutes, and I’ve had no luck getting this match to light neither. I did get a little bit of smoke off the black tipped one, but besides that, I had no success so that was pretty disappointing this laser.

Overall was not very pleasing.

 

I do like to host a lot, and I always have like the silver MIDI gun style host. But the laser diode inside this host is pretty much the same exact one as the 303. I probably guess if I was able to open this up, I’d probably find the same exact diode. It’s not very strong at all. It has the same visibility as a five-dollar laser. It has the same strength 90 milliwatts as a five-dollar laser. the laser beam on this one was also misaligned, which is really annoying to me. I really don’t like when they’re misaligned. I think they should put more effort into making it a perfect straight laser beam, that lines up with the laser pointer itself. It also didn’t come with even a little instruction paper at all. This laser doesn’t have a safety label on it. that’s not a huge issue with me though. Because this one doesn’t really have any flat place to put that little safety sticker.

 

I’m not a big fan of this laser at all. There were some issues with it. it was very weak, basically the cheap $5 laser 303 diode inside a fancy host. If you’re willing to spend $37, I would spend a little bit of extra, and get the stronger laser. If you guys found this review helpful in any way out, I’ll hit that like button down below.

 

 

The laser was bought on ebay and not so good, here you can find a better one with more output options, and this seller claim real power, the green power is 50-100mw and blue can be high to 3000mw. Link is: https://laserpointerstore.com/gatling-series-laser-pointer

 

 

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