I found the spring to be useless as an aid to focusing and threw it away (actually I lost it!) and replaced it with a few winds of PTFE tape. Much better!
I'm waiting for the batteries to charge again (should be too long as they only take around 45 mins but apparently should take a few hours which is why I think the charger may be at fault here) and I'll take picture and post it.
It's okay now as I paid Odicforce for a new LD and driver which works well apart from the batteries last only 3 - 4 minutes. I've reported this to Odicforce as wither batts or charger are faulty.
I've turned the driver down but I'm not sure how I go about testing the current it's drawing. I do have a meter but no separate power supply. I've also turned the lens the other way round by following a post on the forum and that's helped with producing a good dot. I got some setting compound...
Hi all,
I bought a laser kit and LPC815 sled yesterday from Odicforce. I also purchased a pair of CR2 batteries and charger from them. The kit came with a LD driver.
I had no problem extracting the LD from the sled or putting it all together.
The problem I have is that the output power even...