After playing around with Spec's blu-ray pointer for at FLEM and SELEM, I finally decided I "needed" one. Of course it took me blowing up the 1st and 2nd one to get a 3rd one going.With the price of these things being so cheap these days, it didn't bother me much. How's $18 bucks per diode sound? Yeah, pretty freakin cheap... I don't know how much this thing is putting out, in 14 years of playing with lasers, I still don't own a power meter and don't really care to. Anyway, I've got 125mA going through the diode right now and its been running happily in an old galvo mount! I knew I'd find a use for that sooner or later. Such a pretty color...