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He said he bought a brand new projector so it may have been a much newer version of the A141 that was released just before Casio stopped producing projectors all together a couple of years ago.

I can also re-cap them.

I think he just put C for Cyan.... That's definitely a Casio block.

His block is marked M462 which is probably the centroid wavelength of the diodes. I've taken apart hundreds of these blocks and I've never seen that marking before. I'm very curious as to which projector these came from.

LaserBee makes great LPMs for the money and Jerry responds fairly quickly. If you can wait until Black Friday he usually has a big sale on everything.

I have this happy little laser for sale: https://www.ebay.com/itm/325824798664

You could probably just set the voltage to 5+ volts and as long as you don't increase the current past it's max input then it will only use the voltage it requires at the given current. I'm not saying to do that but I do it all the time and it's fine. Laser diodes need current regulation more...

As the current increases so will the voltage requirements. If you have it locked at 2.2V then you won't be able to go any higher with the current. Try setting the voltage to 2.5V and slowly increasing the current from 0V. You may need to go even higher than 2.5V to get the full output but that's...

You should move closer so I can beat you into making hosts too!

I can only beat them so much though!

I need a machine operator and an office assistant!

Yes, that would be awesome! I have a CNC lathe, manual lathe and manual milling machine. I would love to put this CNC lathe to work.

I have all the equipment to do it but I just don't have the time to do it all myself.

It depends on the diode but most of the higher power multi-mode diodes have pretty terrible divergence. A beam expander will help quite a bit though depending on exactly how far you're trying to point.