Hi all,
I'm new to this hobby. During this last month I've been building my first blue laser using the 9mm diode sold by DTR. Tonight I read something about "LEDing a diode" and I got scared about the possibility I LEDed my poor diode. I'm running it with a single 3.7V 18650 cell (it's fairly underpowered) but the beam is hardly visible during daylight and it's definitely not as bright as I expected. I know 9mm are stronger than 5.6mm common ones, but even if I'm quite good at soldering I'm afraid I did a mess...
Here is one pic in strong light conditions:
Sorry for the awful image quality, it was taken with my mobile phone (tough it has a very good camera)
I think it's no more than 50-60mW :yabbem: the beam is pretty visible, but not so bright here are some pics (tonight here in Milan the Moon is very bright):
With flash-LED:
No flash:
At home, no light:
I'm very sorry for the poor quality, but my 500D camera is out for repairs
Many thanks to DTR who helped me a lot during these months and to all the people who are going to answer this topic
I'm new to this hobby. During this last month I've been building my first blue laser using the 9mm diode sold by DTR. Tonight I read something about "LEDing a diode" and I got scared about the possibility I LEDed my poor diode. I'm running it with a single 3.7V 18650 cell (it's fairly underpowered) but the beam is hardly visible during daylight and it's definitely not as bright as I expected. I know 9mm are stronger than 5.6mm common ones, but even if I'm quite good at soldering I'm afraid I did a mess...
Here is one pic in strong light conditions:
Sorry for the awful image quality, it was taken with my mobile phone (tough it has a very good camera)
I think it's no more than 50-60mW :yabbem: the beam is pretty visible, but not so bright here are some pics (tonight here in Milan the Moon is very bright):
With flash-LED:
No flash:
At home, no light:
I'm very sorry for the poor quality, but my 500D camera is out for repairs
Many thanks to DTR who helped me a lot during these months and to all the people who are going to answer this topic
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