Well i got everything soldered up, checked and double, triple, quadruple checked everything, applied power and guess what? The magic smoke came out. $32 bucks in the trash. This is why i was asking about making my own driver. Has anyone else had an x-drive that did nothing but smoked? Less than...
I'd like to hear the in's and out's of using a 5 volt cell phone charger to power a m140 or similar diode. Has anyone done this? I've got probably a hundred chargers.. could be a hundred lasers soon?
I'm a laser nut. Built (and fried) countless dvd burner lasers. Built a few bluray lasers, they always poop on me.... now running a m140 from an lm317t, trying keep my stuff diy..