Recent content by vect0rx

Well I tried rubbing a few materials against the diode window and another couple alcohol 'Q-tippings' (70%) final one followed by some duster air to evaporate the alcohol. The beam cleaned up fairly well and now it's metering around 240mW. I'm fairly pleased because I was only expecting...

Re: Is my GGW busted? UPDATE: I wasn't able to get the beam cleaner, but I took apart and made sure that none of the pins/wires/etc were touching the inside or one another and the strange behavior stopped. I just metered it at a 205mW peak/199mW steady; 214mW peak/207mW when it's warmed up...

Hey guys, I bought two pocket mini kits recently, the 'hot option' set to 180mA, post build I was rather surprised to meter the output peaking around 400mW, sitting in the mid to high 300s and then slowly ramping down to the mid 200s while blinking in high/low/high/low pattern of intensity...

As a matter of fact it'll be just like your 175mW - 6x pocket mini deal assuming I don't short something else :)

fyi, I already had a GGW-H20L on it's way at the time (now waiting to get built). The under-spec LEDShoppe was completely expendable and hence the attempt. Enjoy the pic for what it's worth but lets not paint a picture of someone trying to half-hazardly save a buck. After all these were...

Hey guys just following up. Since having LPM'd my LEDShoppe in the 20mW area I decided to try and do a very sloppy pot mod to it: In the process of doing the above-pictures hacksaw (it's beautiful, I know), I managed to short the copper casing against something on or near the POT and killed...

Insect death by way of directed energy weapon? Hmmm. Might I suggest: 1) harvest a magnetron (complete with wall plug) from a microwave oven 2) construct directional shielding to contain the output to a 30 degree or lesser output arc 3) point & kill I'm almost completely joking. Playing with...

I was browsing the "Gadgets -> Light & Lasers" section of ThinkGeek today and almost felt like posting a similar thread. There were at least 3 flashlights in their inventory using the word LightSaber. "Star Wars Lightsaber Laser Pointer" image:

Also I'm wondering if the 405nm's diode could have gone dimmer on me since I originally received the pointer? Going back to the same location where the original pictures were taken the 405nm actually looks dimmer than the photos above.

I'm just doing a quick follow-up to this now that I have an LPM (Kenometer Pro). FYI, I'm not using *brand new* alkalines, but they're fairly new and I am using the same set of batteries in each pointer as I attempt to do a quick 30sec measure on all three of these. 2) 50mW 532nm LED...

If you look on Alexa, you can see a spike in May.

latest double rainbow song... fml Double Rainbow (deadmau5 modular mayhem mix) - SoundCloud

I got the same 50mW green from the same place in on 7/6. Expecting to have on LPM to measure within the next couple weeks to compare but it sound's like LEDShoppe's of that power can vary at least +-10mW. The interesting thing is that I snagged a 50mW violent and a 5mW version of the green as...

Alright I thought I would ask some of you with or experience with 405nm/polycarb glasses, or others that care to speculate regarding this... So I just got my hands on a <50mW 405nm pointer. Also I've had some yellow tinted polycarbonate lenses that came with an Inova X5 UV LED light that I...

I've been stalking out their 'Wicked Stand' ever since the recent video release. However I was going to wait until things start shipping regarding the pending orders and I see now that it has disappeared from their inventory. Any chance they'll acquire a tripod company and bring this back for...