Recent content by unholy79

That's a shot of the whole thing in a Radio Shack project box. I used a driver design I found on the forums here... Heat-sinked LM-317T voltage regulator, 100 ohm potentiometer, 0.3 ohm 1w resistor (was all I had on hand - going to put a higher resistance one in there soon), 47uF...

Figured it out, it actually wasn't the driver or the diode, it was me overdoing it with the soldering iron. I played a hunch and soldered my last remaining diode at a lower power setting on the iron and made quick with the connection... diode fired up fine. I was simply applying too much heat...

The driver is visually/functionally identical to the photo in the post I referenced... ...with exception to the capacitor/pot/resistor used... I'll snap some photos when I get home.

I started with lasers as a hobby about a month ago, and have been lurking in the forums for quite some time since then. I had successfully built the same exact driver in this post: http://laserpointerforums.com/f42/diy-homemade-laser-diode-driver-26339.html, albeit with a 10K Ohm POT and 3-4 10...