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No its taken apart and just stood on top of the sink :-) the longest I ran it was maybe 90 seconds between turning it off and on .Changed the battery for others before I took it apart

no just took it apart for the picture It was all together the module was grub screwed into the sink as normal and the driver was the other end just stood it on top ..haha cant believe even I would do that.

Can anyone help me throw any light on this. I recently built a small hand held laser. I bought the diode, an LPC 826 diode from odic force The driver was a round linear 315 ma unit from Mohgasm. The battery was a single 16340 ultra fire. the host was a powerlight b50 with a chunky heatsink...

O.K. I attempted a few different lasers recently and spent far too much on stuff to make them :eg: I'm Sure its driving my Dear wife Insane but she has been more than tolerant of all the bits I've been leaving about I.E. Wire clippings , washers general laser building detritus ! She doesn't...

autosol too do you USA gents have that there amazing for aluminium

I wil have a 5.6 if this is still on?

Thats a relief I always worry about chinese stuff .. but actually usually get it in the end

Is bleueyeweb the email of o-like? if not some one else who had paypal to o-like could check .paypal is protected but a right pain to sort . If youre in doubt keep your money .

I can put a multi meter between joints but it wont tell me how it will perform under stress. Joints LOOK ok but is it worth the risk re dooing them to be safe?:undecided: To be honest I was surprised the reading was so low but its not that important at this stage .It was mainly my first...

I WILL some handy tips there Thanks indeed.

Thanks gents.Ill be careful of the room temp. I suspect my soldering will need to be looked at .I used to solder a lot with silver solder and acid flux but this is altogether different so Ive been struggling more with it .I watched a couple of videos but i think i need to buy a third spare hand...

WHOA! thats art!

i have a laserbee 2.5w usb. Im new but i DO want to learn about all this stuff plus I am always suspicious of "guaranteed output"

Thank you, Its using a three element lens as you guessed. the supply has two amps on tap so I suspect you hit both nails there.

I have recently cobbled together a m140 diode with a 1.8 amp X-Drive V6 fixed current driver its being supplied by a 8.4 volt supply Im new to this but this 2w didode is bearly making a watt .. is it possible to half kill it whathave i done wrong ?

WANT this

I think some will want to show their friends who will proceed to beg for a "go" on it. Cant help feeling that it may get abused somewhere along the line .. Still.. not tarring everyone with the same brush

Not Sure whats up with all this slow post from China stuff. I regularly order needles from there and receive them in a matter of days. Also kite stuff that also takes only a week or so.. why electronics are so slow just baffles me .

Hi Im new here and have recently gained an interest in lasers. I am a tattooist from the south of england so Im realy not sure what interests me so much .I would love to build a laser one day so am slowley picking up bits n bobs . I bought a wicked lasers arctic amd promptly and irrevocably...