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Yes I did, that's how I've gotten the results I have, but with 3 AAA batteries I couldn't get results I needed because it take around 5V to turn on the TTL (or so I've been told)

I'm sticking with the 9 volt and using a rectifier diode at the end to reduce the volts to a modest 2.8 and keeping the current at 340 (which I found out is the max my diodes should have and it says in the ebay page that operating current is 205, but then it says <340, meaning less than 340, so...

I tried your advice, just now, and as before with 3AAA no TTL, the board gives no output

begin working on one of my projects in the early hours of the morning again

when its not 4:20 am i'll try it again, but I swear it didn't work the first time, if it works I think I'll be able to label myself as crazy

I should, but i'm an insomniac, its not my tiredness preventing me from work, its the fact I live with people still and they'll get angry if I do that again. random question: what time is it where you're at?

I thought it was messed up before the 9, but no I haven't tried my spare, or the three diodes, with it being 4am I don't feel like soldering would be wise

nowhere at all, I have a socket that the laser diode will connect to, and I soldered it then thought, and realized it would go to the not used pin, so its just sitting right now waiting for removal or trimming

okay, sorry for the wait ignore the green wire, I didn't realize I didn't need it and haven't removed it yet

one sec, it says to resize my pictures, theyre too big

3 diodes on the test load? why? and I can take a picture, it'll be about 5 minutes

I turned the pot and watched the current, I don't remember much, but it wasn't doing much when the positive lead wasn't connected to the TTL positive input, the driver wasn't outputting much of anything. that was before I switched to the 9volt

4 of them

may I ask if you've used a driver that had TTL before and just not used the TTL? is that possible?

the TTL requires 5Vin just to operate the driver, I could try again at 5Vin and not use TTL, but when I did that I got no mA out the end. i'm measuring current across the resistor in my test load using my multimeter

Amazon.com: AixiZ 2 pack red and IR laser diode driver 80-500mA w/TTL: Everything Else that's the driver, I set the current by using my test load and set it using the pot on the driver

okay, so how can I get that lower? i'm running my driver with a 9 volt because 3 AAA's wasn't enough for the TTL and the diode, I was only getting 180 mA, perhaps 7.5ish volts in should solve it?

the part about 5 diodes was to say I have spares incase I mess up, but the question was legit, I want to know if they'll fry at 3.7 volts if the current is good, or if they'll just suffer from a shortened life. if I don't make sense I apologize, where i'm at its almost 3am

lol, sorry, i'm tired, I have a single diode, and a driver, but after the driver the voltage is like 3.7, is that too much for a diode?

or I could leave in a rectifier diode and drop .7 volts, but then i'd need to get another one for my dummy load, i'll try 5 AAA