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Hello all,
Just a little thrown together video of me with one of my Red labbie's.
This one is set at 510mA.
On this diode, I followed Dave's advice and slowly "ramped" the current up.
Ran it for 1 hour at 320mA, then 2 hours at 420, finally bumping it up to 510mA.
It has >6 hours run time as of now. If it dies soon (which would not surprise me) I've had way more then $10 worth of fun out of it. I make all my builds now, with out any glue of any kind. Everything is screwed, snap-ringed,or other non-glue means.
I can swap the diode out on this build in less then 5 minutes.
I don't know the mW output, because all of my meters will only measure up to 300mW.
Soon my Kenometer will be here, and all will be well!
To any newcomers here; don't try any of this stuff. It is for professional use only. Lasers of this power are extremely dangerous if you don't know how to use them!
Just a little thrown together video of me with one of my Red labbie's.
This one is set at 510mA.
On this diode, I followed Dave's advice and slowly "ramped" the current up.
Ran it for 1 hour at 320mA, then 2 hours at 420, finally bumping it up to 510mA.
It has >6 hours run time as of now. If it dies soon (which would not surprise me) I've had way more then $10 worth of fun out of it. I make all my builds now, with out any glue of any kind. Everything is screwed, snap-ringed,or other non-glue means.
I can swap the diode out on this build in less then 5 minutes.
I don't know the mW output, because all of my meters will only measure up to 300mW.
Soon my Kenometer will be here, and all will be well!
To any newcomers here; don't try any of this stuff. It is for professional use only. Lasers of this power are extremely dangerous if you don't know how to use them!
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