Well, I killed a microboost driver when trying to assemble my host together. Somehow it got stuck, bent the leads on my diode, shorted the driver and now I have a $30 bill compressed into 2cm^2 that I cannot repair or get back...
I ended up making a lm317 driver because I do not have any paypal...
For a lens, I have a 445nm lens from rayfoss. www.rayfoss.com
You can get two of them for only 13 dollars
The beam stays pretty small at distances. Much better than whatever coated lens that was previously in the build.
Only con about it is that the lens is half threaded. So, you can either...
Fantastic! I dropped it and its now LED.... FANFUKINTASTIC! Well, it looks like I will have to re-list this thread. Well, Im not wasting my time fixing it for the same mW, I am going to get an LPC-826 to throw in here for 300mW+
@InfinitusEquitas I am happy to hear it is a reasonable price. I...
There, The price has been lowered. As expected, this is not for somebody looking for the cheapest red laser on the market. This is for somebody who appreciates a nice one of a kind quality build.
I cannot drop the price any more as it cost nearly the same price in parts as the sales price...