Recent content by ayagle

right, yea.. I'm taking the precautions I can for my budget.. haha.. but the 7805 was the only thing I could find from scrounging my junk.. I've been trying (somewhat) to get a laser to work for a while now, I guess from the sounds of it I got lucky with this one.

Oh.. everything I had read seemed like that was the way to do it with a 7805.. I'm not really very studied on circuitry and all that yet... I'm starting to absorb it all though.. what is the correct way?... the beam is really weak honestly.. I expected it to be quite a bit brighter..

yes, pretty much... at least from the bread board, output to the same row that the diode + is on.. so, power to button switch, to in on 7805 gnd to gnd and out put to the board with a ground connected to the board connecting to the - of diode... it seems to work fine.. ?

Ok, so I took the drive portion of my bd530 apart for the diode and I am getting light from the normal looking diode from the device, (there was another diode of sorts that was square with 5 pins in a row??) I am hooking it up to a breadboard with a button and 7805 using a 9v battery from a...