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    subject to price im possibly in the market for a power meter.

    i want a proper power metre not a thermal one.

    any recommendations?
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    Whadda ya mean proper?
    Optical ones only go up to a few 100mW possibly with ND filters.

    Thermal meters are mega... (and proper) and go up to 10/100's of Watts.
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    maybe i meant like home made jobbies.

    i want a proper power metre, although i suspect they will be out of my price range
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    probably will be!
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    apart from coherent does anyone else make power meters?
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    Quote Originally Posted by andy_con View Post
    apart from coherent does anyone else make power meters?
    Laserwave do a thermal one for round £550 but its big and analogue. I think Rob stocks them.

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    Hi Andy,Ophir stuff is proper and come up on eBay quiet often. I just bought Marc's Coherent FieldmaxII.I've been looking for one for a while. I missed one on eBay a few months ago that went for a few hundred dollars. Grrrr.Also I missed one that was sold by a company that buys and sells second hand lab gear. Can't remember their name.Hofully the guys will chime in with some good models to look for. Keep checking eBay every few days, I forgot to look for a few weeks and missed a bargain. Even the Coherent field meters come up cheap when they are out of calibration because they are mind bendingly expensive to calibrate. They should still be plenty accurate enough for our purposes.Good luck and persevere.Kit

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    Quote Originally Posted by andy_con View Post
    maybe i meant like home made jobbies.

    i want a proper power metre, although i suspect they will be out of my price range
    No doubt.....

    You can get one of these....

    http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...=STRK:MEWAX:IT

    All you need is 2 standard 9V batteries and a DMM and
    you have yourself a Calibrated 5Watt OPHIR LPM....

    But since you have to partially build it that may be called
    a DIY LPM....


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    .............thats what I did, a diy job using the ophir 20c head.

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