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Thread: Which scan set to buy: PT-30 or DT-30?

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    Default Which scan set to buy: PT-30 or DT-30?

    My old heavily detuned 12k scan set is about to die on me and I want to use it for my laser harp, so I thought I'd buy myself some nice 30k scanners.
    Unless someone has a better recommendation, I believe I have two choices at this moment:
    a Spacelas PT-30 scan set @ € 136.65, or
    a Dragon Tiger DT-30 scan set @ € 294.39.

    What is the best choice? The Spacelas scanners seem to be a bit too cheap to be true. Is there a hidden pitfall? Why are the DT's so much more expensive? What's the difference? Why would it be worth it to go for the much more expensive DT's?
    Are there better scan sets out there I'm not aware of by any chance?

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    As an owner of DT30's in my main projector and Spacelas PT-20's in my sats, I can say this. The quality of Dragon Tiger scanners is superior to Spacelas, by quite a ways.

    Of course both are simply Chinese copies of other name brand scanners, but DT is definitively better than PT. The pre-alignmnet on my DT's was spot on, the driver boards look pretty good too.

    If you can afford the DT30's, go with them.

    You have PM, which is better than PMS!
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    What Wayne said!

    If you can afford to go for the DT40's, I would be with them, but the DT30's are a good economical way to go
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    i gotta say from what i have read besides some bad units that can happen from both DT and PT galvos (faulty grounds or something) the biggest difference is how they are tuned from the factory.
    I got to test alot of PT series galvos from some very old ones to 20k to 30k and now i use 40k.
    All needed tuning but the recent 30ks from the GB they were decent still needed a few tweaks but were close.
    If you have the money always go for quality.
    But we all know this hobby is killer on our wallets and the PTs will work they may take some time to get them perfect.

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