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I know the saying "you get what you pay for" but I'm a frugal slow learner. I bought a couple of these cheap eBay drivers with the intent of running 2 diodes off one at about 5 volts. The description was pretty vague, but they were cheap so I scooped them. Well, I led'd 2 of my good diodes...

I built my own driver so I can play around with a bunch of diodes I hacked out of lightscribe drives. I have a flat package 790? (Near ir at least) with a standard glass aixiz lens and an open can red with a g2, both smoking an old shoe over 10 feet away. Pretty awesome for a n00b imo, but when...

Lets try this again... I've been lurking here for a couple months gathering as much info as I can. This started (for me) as research on burning lasers for a mini dvd drive reprap cnc engraver I'm building and quickly spiraled into tuned cavity 445nm 10 watt fire starting cat hair singing...