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Hello!
I just did my first 445nm build, and i was going to post my build on the 445 area.
The thing is, i have a problem.
Afer everything was done, i fired it up and got light! (YAY! was so amazed of how blue the thing was...people described it as having a violet/purple beam, but it was just pure blue!!)
it burns (i got a hole in a dark paper), as my flexdrive is set to 1A. So id say its outputing between 700mW to 900-1000mW (using Aixiz glass).
The problem is i cant get it to lase for more than 30 secs without it start blinking (going on and off...i can post a video to show it if ud like).
I heard flexdrives do that when the batteries are almost dead. And when i first fired it up i used 2 NiMH almost fully charged and an alkaline that was almost dead (it was just to see if it was lasing). I had the blinking problem and i went to the nearest supermarket and they only had this really crappy AAA batteries. I bought them and after a while it just starts blinking...but not at the beginning...im starting to think that either the batteries are very very bad, or the wire i bought was too bad for the build, and cant handle the 1A draw from flex and the 1A+ from the bats...
Or that or the flexdrive is going mad??
Does anyone know what might be the problem??
Thanks for reading, and hope you guys can help.
*Edit: I dont want to run it much longer in case im hurting the diode and flexdrive*
I just did my first 445nm build, and i was going to post my build on the 445 area.
The thing is, i have a problem.
Afer everything was done, i fired it up and got light! (YAY! was so amazed of how blue the thing was...people described it as having a violet/purple beam, but it was just pure blue!!)
it burns (i got a hole in a dark paper), as my flexdrive is set to 1A. So id say its outputing between 700mW to 900-1000mW (using Aixiz glass).
The problem is i cant get it to lase for more than 30 secs without it start blinking (going on and off...i can post a video to show it if ud like).
I heard flexdrives do that when the batteries are almost dead. And when i first fired it up i used 2 NiMH almost fully charged and an alkaline that was almost dead (it was just to see if it was lasing). I had the blinking problem and i went to the nearest supermarket and they only had this really crappy AAA batteries. I bought them and after a while it just starts blinking...but not at the beginning...im starting to think that either the batteries are very very bad, or the wire i bought was too bad for the build, and cant handle the 1A draw from flex and the 1A+ from the bats...
Or that or the flexdrive is going mad??
Does anyone know what might be the problem??
Thanks for reading, and hope you guys can help.
*Edit: I dont want to run it much longer in case im hurting the diode and flexdrive*
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