HI, While I appreciate your enthusiasm there is not one single shred of quantifiable information listed.
All those "specifications" that are reprinted from those sites is 100% marketing clap trap. It is solely intended for the 'Laz0rz are teh c00l' crowd. "Burn hole in dry leaf
Can't pop popcorn" has to be the the most nonsensical laser power description I have ever heard.
I can not come up with one single justifiable use of a 300mw green pointer. They have limited run times, poor thermal design, most are shoddily manufactured, most illegal under cdrh, usually a crappy beam, lots leak ir and are nothing more than a toy, the problem is, lasers are not toys. I don't consider popping balloons or lighting a match to be a justifiable use.
Now I do not expect everyone to enjoy doing the things that I like to do with lasers but the problem is these are the same idiots who are lasing aircraft and cops. It is morons like this the are the reason I have to show ID to buy a can of spray paint.
Companies like wicked lasers are just encouraging, and compounding this.
I have read your posts and I am a little concerned that you might be falling int the same boat. You want to duct tape a 300- to 500 mw portable laser to a 20 foot pole and Willy nilly blast it around the city. Now you want build a little display system for your buddy's band and do illegal, non varianced shows with a class 3b borderline class4 laser.
I am really happy that you are interested in laser. I will answer any questions that you have to the best of my ability as will lots of other great and knowledgeable people around here. But is clear to me that you do not respect the device that you are getting and it is just a toy to pop balloons with, your own lazer ray gun.
I really am not an asshole, this just happens to be one of the things that really annoy me. Here in the USA we are already regulated to the point that it almost destroyed the laser industry completely. Laserium is gone as well as laser fantasy, AVI, Light speed design.
This is not a pointer forum and you find that 99% of people here could care less if you can "Burn foam packaging,
slowly cut red/black electric tape" with a hand held laser.
Sorry, just calling it like I see it.
Chad
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.