Recent content by Redfeast

Hello everyone, I will start off by saying I am a software engineer, and do not have much experience with electronics or embedded software. I did manage to get a working 405nm build in a flashlight host exclusively thanks to the great people of the laserpointerforums community. It worked for...

I have been coding in c++ for over 10 years. I can help you with anything you have questions about... Btw, what are you planning on coding anyway? - Rick

Hey Guys, I am a beginner at soldering, so I have been soldering wires together, and random wires to a circuit board for some practice. I felt I was ready to assemble my test load kit from rckstr. I didn't have any fine tipped tweezers, and the parts were smaller than I realized, but I think...

Hey JayRob, I want to get a meredith lense kit for my new style dilda, my old lense must have fallen out or something... I saw you sell a custom kit for the dilda, but I didnt find the price... sorry if you posted it elsewhere, but could you tell me how much this kit is? Thanks

Hi Jayrob, I would like to buy one of your heatsinks (version 2) for the 3405 host. How do I go about doing this?

I should have also noted.... I picked up a 0-50 watt variable soldering iron. How many watts do you guys generally use when your dealing with the driver and diode?

Thanks for the quick reply! Yea I was kinda wondering how I was all gonna fit together without one too.... Well ok I guess Ill just have to pick one of those up then.

Hello Everyone, I have read most of the tutorials, and they were very helpful, but there are still a few things I dont quite understand. I have been interested in building a laser for quite some time, but I have never soldered or worked with electronics so I am trying to understand all of...

that clears some things up. (not that I'm going to be doing this or anything....) Thanks alot

Heres what I want to know.... Green lasers are the brightest lasers to the human eye. IR lasers cannot be seen by the human eye. If I shined a 200 mw Green laser at a white wall and looked at it close range, the brightness would hurt my eye (I mean the physical pain you feel from a light that...

Comon guys, surely one of you can tell me something?

I bought 2 5mw lasers to use for playing with my cat, 1 green and 1 red... They didnt list anything about a duty cycle. I was figuring 5mw is just not enough power to build up enough heat to require a duty cycle, is this accurate? On a side note, this is my first green laser and I just took it...

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Hi everyone, I was planning to buy the DL Viper 125mw and get the DL Beam Expander as well with the Viper adapter.... The X-125 comes with a great case though, and Nova offers a discount code of a whopping 5%. If I choose to buy the X125, will my beam expander and viper adapter fit onto the...

Hi everyone, I have an awesome cat named Zeke, who loves to play with lasers. Ive been using a 5mw red keychain laser (5 dollars at grocery store) Im not sure if the 50mw is actually going to be 50mw or not because I have no testing equipment, and I have no idea how bright Its going to be...