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Hey Everybody,
I am not sure if this is exactly the correct place to ask for help concerning a stupid mistake I made but I'll fill you all in and then feel free to direct me to the correct area of this forum... :undecided:
SO- I was focusing my lens to get a tighter dot on a piece of wood that I was having fun burning (behind goggles of course) and I suppose I twisted the lens too far and it seems that the module itself also twisted in the process and the lead wires pulled apart from the pill driver... I was left with short wires coming from the pill and short wires coming from the diode module.
I nearly cried and gently set the laser down and walked away from the crime scene.
A few days later I came back to the dead laser and reasoned with myself that there was enough wire left to strip it and solder it back together. So that's exactly what I did.
I carefully put everything back together and made sure the set screw was tight from the heatsink to the module.
I turned on the laser and NOTHING...
I thought "well, maybe the batteries are dead from because I could have left the switch on not knowing if it was on or off since there was no 445nm light blasting from the diode". I charged the batteries and later that day I stuck them back in and the host immediately started smoking. It was an electrical smoke smell so I quickly turned it off and took the batteries out again.
SO I'm at a loss of what to do.
ANY help would be appreciated. :thanks:
I am not sure if this is exactly the correct place to ask for help concerning a stupid mistake I made but I'll fill you all in and then feel free to direct me to the correct area of this forum... :undecided:
SO- I was focusing my lens to get a tighter dot on a piece of wood that I was having fun burning (behind goggles of course) and I suppose I twisted the lens too far and it seems that the module itself also twisted in the process and the lead wires pulled apart from the pill driver... I was left with short wires coming from the pill and short wires coming from the diode module.
I nearly cried and gently set the laser down and walked away from the crime scene.
A few days later I came back to the dead laser and reasoned with myself that there was enough wire left to strip it and solder it back together. So that's exactly what I did.
I carefully put everything back together and made sure the set screw was tight from the heatsink to the module.
I turned on the laser and NOTHING...
I thought "well, maybe the batteries are dead from because I could have left the switch on not knowing if it was on or off since there was no 445nm light blasting from the diode". I charged the batteries and later that day I stuck them back in and the host immediately started smoking. It was an electrical smoke smell so I quickly turned it off and took the batteries out again.
SO I'm at a loss of what to do.
ANY help would be appreciated. :thanks: