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G'day,
So off another member i bought a Zombie Arctic Spyder, it had a blue diode which was very dull, LPM'd at ~190mW when i recived it, pretty crap...
I put the standard driver on a test load and it was putting out bugger all current, so what did i do? GUTTED THE THING
Here's how the host came down in parts:
The plan was to install a 16 mode AMC7135 1050mA driver into it, i also added a extra AMC7135 chip to make it a nice 1400mA.
While i had the host apart, i ordered some 0805 Red LED's to replace the standard green ones to match the color of the laser.
Now how was i going to make the LED's work with this driver? :thinking:
I drew up a diagram:
I didn't actually use my own resistor to limit the current, i used the ones already on the LED indicator circuit board which came inside the host.
I really dislike the smart switch on th Arctic, when you have to press in that stupid code each time to activate it? Awww Helll No!, it had to go, i clipped the wires off the smart switch and put it back in the host, it is just something redundant now
Next i got the Arctics heatsink, put some thermal paste around where the diode sits and pressed it in, soldered the 500mW diode up, heatshrinked and finished my soldering almost done!
I followed lazeerer's tutorial on how to re install the arctics components without twisting the diode wires off the diode, simple and easy - twist the heatsink the opposite direction so it untwists as you wind in the heatsink! BRILLIANT!
So after all that i soldered it up as per to the diagram i made and bam!
Video of it running through modes
I did LPM this unit, just using the display and it hit 765mW wit the arctic's own lens, should go up from there with a acrylic, 3 element glass for 637-660nm, 405-G-1 and 650-G-1
Thanks for looking!
Fiddy.
So off another member i bought a Zombie Arctic Spyder, it had a blue diode which was very dull, LPM'd at ~190mW when i recived it, pretty crap...
I put the standard driver on a test load and it was putting out bugger all current, so what did i do? GUTTED THE THING
Here's how the host came down in parts:
The plan was to install a 16 mode AMC7135 1050mA driver into it, i also added a extra AMC7135 chip to make it a nice 1400mA.
While i had the host apart, i ordered some 0805 Red LED's to replace the standard green ones to match the color of the laser.
Now how was i going to make the LED's work with this driver? :thinking:
I drew up a diagram:
I didn't actually use my own resistor to limit the current, i used the ones already on the LED indicator circuit board which came inside the host.
I really dislike the smart switch on th Arctic, when you have to press in that stupid code each time to activate it? Awww Helll No!, it had to go, i clipped the wires off the smart switch and put it back in the host, it is just something redundant now
Next i got the Arctics heatsink, put some thermal paste around where the diode sits and pressed it in, soldered the 500mW diode up, heatshrinked and finished my soldering
almost done!I followed lazeerer's tutorial on how to re install the arctics components without twisting the diode wires off the diode, simple and easy - twist the heatsink the opposite direction so it untwists as you wind in the heatsink! BRILLIANT!
So after all that i soldered it up as per to the diagram i made and bam!
Video of it running through modes
I did LPM this unit, just using the display and it hit 765mW wit the arctic's own lens, should go up from there with a acrylic, 3 element glass for 637-660nm, 405-G-1 and 650-G-1
Thanks for looking!
Fiddy.
