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Im going to be making my first laser this weekend(assuming my diode comes today) and I am using a dorcy jr host. I keep doing more and more reading to make sure I don't screw this up and I keep seeing talk about removing some sort of driver underneath the black plastic in the battery case, where the spring goes into?

I thought original driver was in the "pill" ?

In any case, whatever is underneath the black plastic, do I need to remove it?

And for the record, Im going to be using a Flexdrive at 120mA.
 





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*Sigh* Now I must wait till monday, becasue my diode and module still haven't gotten here(today is the 5th day from purchase). Im still confused on where the original driver is, in the dorcy. Is it in the "pill" or under the black plastic on the battery case...
 

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its under the black thing, the battery touches the driver and u have to pop the black part out and u will see the driver ;)
 
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Then, you can either desolder everything off of the driver, and put the black thing back on, or you could remove the driver.
 

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jake21 said:
its under the black thing, the battery touches the driver and u have to pop the black part out and u will see the driver  ;)


I'll bite -- how does one "pop" the black thing out?

Peace,
dave
 
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By removing the driver underneath the black thing...will the spring still touch the battery?
 
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Elyk456 said:
By removing the driver underneath the black thing...will the spring still touch the battery?
Yes.
You will even have to shorten the spring a little so it doesn't short out against the case.
 
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So skipping this whole step, using a Flexdrive, would make my laser work faulty- correct?
 
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Once I do this, I take it I shouldn't turn on the light anymore huh  ;)


Edit: I can't seem to pry off the black thing without breaking it.

Edit Edit: Driver removed. ;D
 
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Elyk456 said:
Once I do this, I take it I shouldn't turn on the light anymore huh  ;)


Edit: I can't seem to pry off the black thing without breaking it.

Use a "deep-socket" that fits into the battery-compartment in place of the battery and push, the black-plastic piece is actually pushed into the real "pill" which is pressed into the battery-tube, it will make sense when it pops out of there. If you are using the Full-Body heatsink, you will have to remove all of this to make room anyway. There is actually no electronics in the "head-module" except the LED itself, everything up there is just power-distribution, it just looks like there is a driver in there somewhere.

Check out this tutorial from Hvnsent, it is very well done: http://www.i-hacked.com/content/view/272/94/
The original-driver is usable, but not really very high performance or reliable, it is well worth it to use a Flex-Drive constant-current driver.
 
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Yeah, I used a marker to pop out the silver looking "pill" that holds the black plastice. I popped out the circular circuit board which must be the "driver" and put it all back together without the driver. What were you saying I should do to make the heatsink fit properly ?


Btw, thanks for the full body heatsink, it shipped here first  ;)

Im also already following the walkthrough made by Hvnsent  ;D
 
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Elyk456 said:
Yeah, I used a marker to pop out the silver looking "pill" that holds the black plastice. I popped out the circular circuit board which must be the "driver" and put it all back together without the driver. What were you saying I should do to make the heatsink fit properly ?


Btw, thanks for the full body heatsink, it shipped here first  ;)

Im also already following the walkthrough made by Hvnsent  ;D

You are most of the way there then, you should be fine ;)
 




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