Hello
Let's just tell you my intrests.
I play games (mostly Eve Online since internet spaceships are serious buisnes) I like almost anything that got something to do with electricity so far I've build a coilgun and am still looking into building a tesla coil (need to find time for it )
I'm new to lasers and soon I will be making my first one (parts will arive in 7-14 day's ohhhhh the waiting is so bad). My first laser will be using a PHR-803T diode and my aim is to run it around 100-125 mw.
Now I also got a few questions to put here as well.
mainly the driver part. I had found this picture: http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080816184914/lasers/images/1/1a/Lm317diagram.jpg but as I understand my diode needed a bit more volts to work and some other stuff so I looked around a bit more and stumbled on this and I must say great info there.
Now I edited the picture from rog8811 for my own build and from what I understand it should be this is there someone who can tell me if this driver could work for my PHR-803T?
The host I will be using got place for 3 AAA battery's but standard AAA will not work as they are 1.5v each and 4.5v will not be enough to run this thing. I've read about those lithium-ion battery's but most I see are AA size or are there some AAA size around somewhere? (I can probably modify the holder to take power from 2 instead of 3 AAA if needed)
And one last question: if there are AAA's I can use that put out let's say 4V am I right in the assumption I can just use 3 of them at a total of 12V and my driver will make sure that the diode doesn't fry?
Sorry if my english is a bit bad it is not my native language ^^
Let's just tell you my intrests.
I play games (mostly Eve Online since internet spaceships are serious buisnes) I like almost anything that got something to do with electricity so far I've build a coilgun and am still looking into building a tesla coil (need to find time for it )
I'm new to lasers and soon I will be making my first one (parts will arive in 7-14 day's ohhhhh the waiting is so bad). My first laser will be using a PHR-803T diode and my aim is to run it around 100-125 mw.
Now I also got a few questions to put here as well.
mainly the driver part. I had found this picture: http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080816184914/lasers/images/1/1a/Lm317diagram.jpg but as I understand my diode needed a bit more volts to work and some other stuff so I looked around a bit more and stumbled on this and I must say great info there.
Now I edited the picture from rog8811 for my own build and from what I understand it should be this is there someone who can tell me if this driver could work for my PHR-803T?
The host I will be using got place for 3 AAA battery's but standard AAA will not work as they are 1.5v each and 4.5v will not be enough to run this thing. I've read about those lithium-ion battery's but most I see are AA size or are there some AAA size around somewhere? (I can probably modify the holder to take power from 2 instead of 3 AAA if needed)
And one last question: if there are AAA's I can use that put out let's say 4V am I right in the assumption I can just use 3 of them at a total of 12V and my driver will make sure that the diode doesn't fry?
Sorry if my english is a bit bad it is not my native language ^^