Oh My Oh My. My first laser build...
405 G-1 lens mod, heatsink and host from jayrob
101 mW driver from rkcstr
Bluray diode harvested from a Xbox360 HDDVD
Finally managed to complete my build earlier this evening. (i should have been working but couldn't wait)
To put it simply, i'm totally and utterly stunned! Straight after i completed the build i switched it on and started to gradually pull the focus in on the laser using a pair of needle nose pliers. When i found the sweet spot i just couldn't belive my eyes. My mother has a collection of crystal glasses in a mirrored display cabinet so i turned all of the lights out and switched the laser on to shine it on them, Lordy its pure eye candy! In a pitch black room it illuminated everywhere with purple, blue and even green refracted & reflected light. I can now see the addiction with lasers, videos just do them no justice. Dazzling!
One thing i noticed though is that the laser is sometimes blue, just like the 473's? Move the laser on one thing i get purple, something else blue? Weird but wonderful - I thought it'd be constantly purple?
Just a question: It really was very dazzlingly bright playing around with the laser, is this safe with no eye protection? I was very careful not to let the beam bounce back in my face off the mirrors whilst using it.
Many thanks to jayrob and rkcstr for supplying me with the components needed to build this marvelous thing. I think i'm gonna build another soon