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Hey everyone. So I was in a punny mood today and I had my build from my personal collection on me at the time... so I decided I would take some pictures instead of writing a paper on Darwin XD.
So I call this the Arizona Copperhead because it's a type of snake that is native to North America which is notorious for its characteristic copper head. This laser, too, should be. After all, it's a sleek, stainless steel host (originally brought to the forums by rhd by the name of "Ribbed Silver") topped off with quite a literal copper head! I don't know how rhd typically does his Ribbed Silver builds, but I used a FlexDrive in this guy (so I can get a bit more battery life with the tiny IMR10440 I have with it). Because of that, though, I could not fit the top part of the Aixiz module into the host... so that's where the copper comes in!
Anyway, the part that makes this the "Copperhead" really is what I like to think of as a tiny heatsink. While the bottom end of the Aixiz module is thermally glued to the interior of the stainless steel host, I wanted a bit more heatsinking than that. So, I got on the lathe with some copper and turned down a little heatsink with the same diameter as the host, making it an almost perfect copper extension to the host, fitting exactly over the top part of the Aixiz module.
I really enjoy this build. It's a tiny little thing, which is why I called it Bite-Sized! While it does get hot quickly, it sure as hell packs a punch at about 450mW. It's been one of my carry lasers lately simply because I find a red beam cutting through the sky slightly more amazing than the beam of a 445nm laser, probably because this is newer to me.
Anyway, here are some pictures displaying the Bite-Sized Copperhead in all of its grainy-pixelated glory!
Updated the main pics, from my iPod. Beamshot still from the webcam.
Anyway, I figured I would post this up here and see what you guys think. I think it's really neat!
So I call this the Arizona Copperhead because it's a type of snake that is native to North America which is notorious for its characteristic copper head. This laser, too, should be. After all, it's a sleek, stainless steel host (originally brought to the forums by rhd by the name of "Ribbed Silver") topped off with quite a literal copper head! I don't know how rhd typically does his Ribbed Silver builds, but I used a FlexDrive in this guy (so I can get a bit more battery life with the tiny IMR10440 I have with it). Because of that, though, I could not fit the top part of the Aixiz module into the host... so that's where the copper comes in!
Anyway, the part that makes this the "Copperhead" really is what I like to think of as a tiny heatsink. While the bottom end of the Aixiz module is thermally glued to the interior of the stainless steel host, I wanted a bit more heatsinking than that. So, I got on the lathe with some copper and turned down a little heatsink with the same diameter as the host, making it an almost perfect copper extension to the host, fitting exactly over the top part of the Aixiz module.
I really enjoy this build. It's a tiny little thing, which is why I called it Bite-Sized! While it does get hot quickly, it sure as hell packs a punch at about 450mW. It's been one of my carry lasers lately simply because I find a red beam cutting through the sky slightly more amazing than the beam of a 445nm laser, probably because this is newer to me.
Anyway, here are some pictures displaying the Bite-Sized Copperhead in all of its grainy-pixelated glory!
Updated the main pics, from my iPod. Beamshot still from the webcam.
Anyway, I figured I would post this up here and see what you guys think. I think it's really neat!
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, did you ever do anything with that black pen host that good old santa sent your way? 
She thinks lasers are almost as cool as I do!
I like the sleekness 
