simple red 660

since i no longer owned a high power red 660 handheld it was time to build another. looking thru my laser stuff i found a tiny little adjustable atma linear driver i never used. and there was a complete c6 host with many heatsink options. i went with a plain aluminum type because it had the tightest fit of all of them.
i'm a big fan of cajun lasers for a lot of my laser needs. and always for lpc's it only took 2 days to get the diode, but then cliff is just "up the road".
after setting the tiny driver to ~ 440ma i arctic silvered it to the inside of the c6 pill. there was room for about 5 more of them ;-)
i thought i still had a copper module but it turned out they were all 3.8mm.
so after pressing the diode into an aixiz and soldering the leads from the driver, it was time for thermal grease and tightening the set screw.
the c6 is a simple, roomy host and looks pretty nice too. i like the 3 element lens' spot best so that's what is used along with a silver plated aluminum focus disc. the laser is powered with 2x rcr123 batteries.
here's some shots









i've run it for over 2 minutes without any heat issues, tho it does warm up.
the lpc and the 12x diodes are my favorites, with the pl450 close behind. the beam specs of these single mode diodes are what lasers are all about to me. and they have significant power. tho i do like the crazy power m140's too, the beam specs suck. that won't stop me from building one tho....:thanks: for looking

Man, I love your camera. The beam looks purple.

since the pic of the 12x i changed the color setting from vivid to true. it doesn't look true to me either. i have a kodak easy share 10mp. i'm no photographer to be sure. but at least we can see it lase and read the numbers. i'll call it art rather than journalism.

Good work with the build, That beam looks really good. +1

Nice build :beer: