Proceeded to click the laser on the package in my car

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Today I received my long awaited 12x BDR laser running at 380mA ad 555mw firepower, weighing a mere 2.2 ounces and 4 inches long.(thanks Daguin and Igor). I ripped open the package in my car, and proceeded to click laser pointer on. Visually it looked not much different, and I turned it off after I noticed I was burning my dashboard... I mounted it on my dealxtreme stand and ran it to the longest hallway in my house (58ft, measured awhile ago for this moment ).
My 220mw SF-AW was able to pop a balloon from 35ft in about 4 secs, so I was really curious as to the popping distance of a 12x. So I then commence to power up the laser and attempt to focus a dot 58 ft away on a black piece of paper. (it gets all glowy and sparkly like ) I feel it is focused enough, so I remove the paper to permit the beam to strike the balloon(it doesnt even look like a dot, I would say the diameter of the "focused spot" looked to be 1 inch long,therefore I am almost disappointed into thinking It will not turn out to be as powerful as hoped.
So I remove sed piece of paper...and in less than a second the balloon is gone. I am shell shocked1000 mw laser pointer. I run into my room, blow up two more balloons (dont even tie them) and run them back to the danger zone to be extinguished, one at a time in each hand. If you were in my home when this happened you would have heard a *pop* (1 sec later) *pop*.
I now scrambled up this message to provide you all with the info that, as suspected, 12x's easily hold up to their reputation. I will now do some other burns...and await nightfall to check beam-age.