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My diode is behaving very oddly...don't know if this is a sign of imminent death or not as I have never seen this before...
I was running the diode at 2.5A (direct from my PSU, shorted before applying power) for something like a minute and it dimmed out to nearly no output over a period of a few seconds. But, when I give it juice again, it runs at apparently full power for about 10 or 15 seconds before dimming out again. The voltage of my PSU is set well above the forward voltage of the diode so that isn't the problem.
I don't have my LPM on hand so I can't tell if there has been a change in output power, but the raw output has nothing odd in it compared to when I first powered it up.
Weird.
See bens post right above yours...Logsquared has a valid point, but the p73's are also meant for pulsed operation I think static discharge from the plastic bag it was packaged in is to blame.