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Thanks for the diagrams :) i hope that helps anyone else who bought them or is considering buying them and doesnt know how to hook them up lol

so from what i'm getting from your tutorial there's 2 battery + connections and you can use either of them, one on the opposite side as the diode connections, and one in the middle thats in between the spring?

thank you guys so much for helping! i really appreciate it, i bought 3 of the drivers without learning how to hook them up first.. lol whoops. thanks again!

Hey everyone, i'm not really finding a good description or any diagrams on how to connect the O-like 1W driver, if anyone can help in any way it would be greatly appreciated :)

alright thanks for the help everyone who replied! i have just ordered 3 more from DTR lol, so hopefully none of them go on me lol. and one of my phr-803t LD's died on me in the same circuit at the same time, so i may have had it hooked up wrong, but so far on my other phr-803t LD everything is...

thanks for the reply but do you know how this could have happened? I know i never left the soldering iron on the diode for too long, and i also don't have a capacitor in my circuit, i've never hooked it up backwards, or hooked it up to the circuit when it was already powered... I just want to...

alright, so today i got a new LM317, and attached a heat sink to it, i first started off by putting a phr-803t LD on it, and was able to light a match, with a 10 ohm resistor on it. after that i disconnected the phr-803t LD and hooked the 445nm diode up to the circuit and was not getting nearly...

i know i do have the diode pressed into the module correctly, i'll post a reply tomorrow after i get another LM317 just in case the one i have killed itself

also, i don't know what you mean by that part of your response? i've never made a laser this powerful before

i may have killed the lm317, i tried changeing the resistance to about 11 ohms to use it with one of the phr-803t LDs and nothing. i don't have a capacitor in this circuit, the only 2 components are the LM317, and the resistor. i can easily get more lm317's from my college, and this time I...

thanks for the quick reply :) i have the diode housed in an Aixiz module, and in the heatsink from modwerx ( Lab style heatsink for 12mm laser modules [M0020] - $20.99 : Modwerx Shop ) and yes the lm317 is just bare for now since it is on just a breadboard. i don't know how trust worthy the...

I've built a few lasers before and have never had one go on me (atleast until right now? lol) i'm running the diode with an LM317, and a 1ohm resistor, and it isnt outputting very much light at all. the LM317 does get very very hot within seconds, could this be a problem? i had this circuit...