Recent content by Meebs

If he is a scammer why is he not banned? I really don't get it. There are mods and the like posting in this forum that he is a scammer, and yet we continue to let him advertise here and trick people into buying his crap? The only good that can come of this is for him, specifically, for his...

WOOOOOOT! I ordered a tenergy battery for half the price of the ultrafire protected cell I bought earlier and now it works flawlessly. It must've just been a crap battery, or maybe the protection was kicking in or something. Who knows. All I know is now I've got a functioning 1.4W laser, and I'm...

Thanks to your warning I decided against doing the PS test. I just ordered another battery (at $3 per battery, its really not worth it to risk the laser hooking it up to a PS, haha). It should come within a few weeks. I'll let you guys know how everything turns out. Crossing my fingers that I...

Update: I did the test replacing the endcap with a wire and it ran fine for about 10 seconds (battery wasn't fully charged), but then entered the flickering mode and stayed there for another 5 seconds before I shut it off. I think I'll try the regulated power supply test tomorrow, to see if...

Finally got the pics working:

Ahhh, that makes sense. Alright, well I'm waiting for the battery to charge so I can do this test. I'm pretty sure this is pretty much exactly like your hotlights coinmod build. Looking at the laser I only found one real difference which is that there are only two wires coming out of the siode...

Awesome, so we've got it pinned down to a connection issue. The battery is always very tight against both springs when I screw it on. It is actually kind of tough to get it in, so the two connections are very tight. If i was going to do this test, though, when you say complete the circuit...

It flashes rapidly. So if I hook up the whole laser to the supply as is and give it 4.2 volts, and then see whether or not the same thing happens it would tell me if it were a battery issue or not. Right, that makes sense. So I would hook up the positive to the terminal inside, but where would...

Right, that was what I figured due to the flashing. It seemed like a heat problem, but there wouldn't be a heat problem, its got a great heatsink and is coinmodded. I can confirm that it is a flex drive, its got the letters FLX on it. I'll post some pictures in a couple minutes. Thanks for your...

It actually is already coinmodded, and doesn't heat up at all during the process. I think weidmark just followed DTR's guide on it. Also: Weidmark had it running for 5 minutes off the same kind of battery. Do you think it is just the fact that it is a protected cell?

Hey all. I've got a problem with a 1.4W laser I bought from weidmark a while back. It runs off of 1 18500 and weidmark had it clocked at 5 minutes of runtime before the battery was giving out. I never got to see it in its full glory because due to unfortunate circumstances the laser was turned...

Payed and waiting for delivery on second. :D I'll be checking the mail literally every couple hours until it arrives, haha. This is definitely an unhealthy obsession you guys have pulled me into.

I generally don't shine it on any glass or metals, or really anywhere when I don't know which direction it will reflect in. This was a special case as I was holding the cup up, I wasn't just shining it in there as they were drinking from it, haha. I appreciate the tips though. Wow I just...

Hi everyone, I've been lurking around here for a while but figured I might as well sign up if I'm going to be getting into this hobby. I've got a 50mW greenie from budgetgadgets, and a <5mW 405nm from ebay (real output is probably much higher though). I'm quite satisfied with both. I don't...

Is there any size limit? (my first post, btw) :D EDIT: Meaning file size limit, not dimensions.