Wow Ian.
It's a shame that you perceive it as that.
I'm pretty sure I have never made any direct comparisons or indeed singled out or mentioned any one single laser illuminator when discussing these. For one manufacturer or reseller to draw direct comparisons or make negative comments about another's product would be pretty crass and amateur at best, so I'm careful never to do it myself.
I've never given anyone any 'grief' as you put it. It's actually the other way around. This stems from me once again mentioning my genuine concerns about the safety of 'ALL' of these new lasers last August on another forum. Predictably it was scoffed at by yourself and other people wishing to line their pockets selling these new wonder lasers, or mates thereof. But interestingly, one manufacturer very quickly changed their publicised specification.
Once, as I predicted, it turned into a brightness race by people having no clue what they were putting together or the dangerous power outputs they were achieving we put a few test units together to see just how dangerous they could be made to help others understand what they were buying, because it was clear the people selling them had no idea. We have several specialist instruments to test power output so it was a very quick process for us.
Very quickly and easily we came up with a unit that was very dangerous indeed, but would see an unnecessarily far distance. Again that information was met with more immediate scoffery from...guess where?
All this nonsense and trolling actually made me look much closer into the regulations, product safety specs, biological exposure limits, etc. far more deeply than I ever would have otherwise. It was after this that I realised it was possible to make a laser based illuminator with more than enough power, that is no more dangerous to use than a standard LED illuminator. So the Dark Engine was born. Bearing in mind that the Dark Engine will get out to 700+ yards even with a rubbish add on, it bears the question...is a more powerful IR really necessary? The Dark Engine is also the smallest, lightest and cheapest of these new illuminators.
Just touching on what you call "absolute verbal diarrhoea" regarding our Black Sun pills. If you made something out of top drawer components, with the best design and careful controlled manufacturing process to make the absolute highest quality, most efficient and best performing product possible...I'm sure you would also mention that as a benefit to your customers and be rightly proud of it as we are. Otherwise it could be something slapped together from any old tat on someone's kitchen table.
Cheers
Clive
