Recent content by dmartin

ohh sorry, its about .5mrads, i looked over my math and was a tens place off when converting to mRads. I'm glad to see my math was correct except for the 10's place. (i just sort of made it up remembering what i had learned from school)

about 5 millirads

I was quite sad too. If it weren't for that stupid maglite hack video I wouldn't have wasted all those diodes, (well i learned a lot) Anyways good news its done and it works. Still haven't got the focusing right but its better and at the moment i really don't care. I can burn crap at about a...

Ok, sorry forget any questions about the circuit, I have a DDL Driver up and working, along with another circuit to step a 9v down to 6.25 (working to get to 6, im 20ohms off) the heat sink for the radioshack: brass for where the laser diode sits, brass for what holds the lens, and aluminum...

Well I went to my local radioshack and picked up a few things, a soldering iron, a new DMM that can go up to 400ma (my last one has died or something, can't give me mA ratings only zero, and it wont read voltages or ohm reliably ), and im going to mount this in a project box so i can put ddl...

Im sorry, I wasn't clear. I mounted the laser diode in the one i got out of my radioshack laser. I think it works fine, at something > 200mA it ran for a minute and it was only mildly warm. I can add a large heatsink, and may end up doing so to make it fit in my case.

for my module, i dissembled a radioshack laser pointer and I am using its lense. dm

First of all, first post, love the site. I wanted to do this, diy laser, for a while after I saw that silly maglite mod video. Well yesterday I killed 4 laser diodes due to absolutely no mention that you are sending your diodes to led hell with the maglite mod. "huh why is it dim?", is...