That really stinks I've found that as long as you get a hold of Joe N he takes care of you. I have to put my laser in the cheap stand to hold it steady to light any matches with it so I have completely given up on it for that use to much of a pain in the butt.
I will make no claims on accuracy, but a friend of mine is very big into lasers too and has a laser power meter it hit 1101mW we only tried once so it's by no means an average output. The beam seems real nice from what I can tell the same meter measured my "200mW" wicked lasers E3 at 113mW so idk :/
Hey I've been browsing LPF for quite a while... I got hooked on lasers during the great debacle where wicked dropped the ball on everyone I managed to get an underpowered E3 and believe it or not an over spec Arctic that is of nice quality and still works... I guess one of the few... I started...