70mW Green module from CNI pen - CHEAP

WTS:

This is a beat up, ugly module pieced together from parts from 3 different CNI pen lasers that had other components fail, or I just felt like ripping up. Bascially, its a cheap source of green 532nm, and that's all there is to it. Peaks around 100mW and will average >70-80mW if you keep it cool. Runs off 3V - spring on the back of the board is negative, case is positive. It has the original switch on it, but I can remove/solder that so its constant on if you want. Diode and crystals came from lasers that put out >100mW so at least the parts are decent quality even if the module looks like crap

I'm asking a buck a mW plus shipping, so its $75 if you're in the US.

Would be good for an altoids can laser type project. I epoxied it together pretty well though so probably not a "for parts" unit.

Pictures please!?

Even if as is it is (mouthful) totally unusable, I might be interested!

Xenodius said:

Pictures please!?

Even if as is it is (mouthful) totally unusable, I might be interested!

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Okay, I'll take a pic later tonight and hopefully get it posted in the next 2-3 hours.

The module is completely usable and fully functional, but the casing to it looks like crap and its just a DIY-style job all around. With 3V (and cooling if you want to run it continuously) though, its good for 70mW+ power levels without any tweaking.

Sry, forgot to mention that there's a little scatter and the collimation may need some adjusting, but its not too serious in either case.

Here's a pic of the crappy looking module:

That's pretty nicely banged up, what'd you do? Use it a chew toy? ;D ;D J/K

That seems like a nice DIY project for me and I would be in, but I'm honestly too in love with BluRay and should have enough DIY stuff with the coming reds. Perhaps a shot of it actually measuring that much output?

Thank you Pseudo;
DDL

You've gotta a thing about beaten up old currency for scale value ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Timelord said:

You've gotta a thing about beaten up old currency for scale value  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

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Haha, I think that's actually a 2005 coin or something. As an addict in the coin hobby too, my 100+ year old coins normally look a lot better than my new pocketchange.

As for the module, I pulled a pseudo and killed it by being stupid, sorry! (3rd thing I've killed by not checking what I set the PSU to beforehand)