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So my Survival laser 660nm is no more. No sweat from Gary at survival lasers I got a reasonable solution when I talked to him and will have a new diode/driver soon.
I just want opinions on why it died.
Stats of laser:
660nm
LPC-826 driven at 530ma by Survival lasers driver.
Had about 20 Hours of runtime on it in which it never had any issues
Was never dropped, shocked in any way, never stored with batteries in it or without lens so diode was never exposed.
When it died I was installing another knock off G2 lens that's new to me to test its power on my LPM.
I turned it on few seconds with old lens to test and worked fine, installed new lens turned it on and was at full power but out of focus, as I was bringing it into focus turning the lens(still on at full power) and had it 95% into focus dot was 2" on wall and it just dropped to 1% output or less. No flicker no off then back on it stayed on the whole time just went from full power to almost no output now. It has a 3-4" round glow on wall with a brighter thin line through the middle. Total output a lot lower than a 5mw pointer. And am completely unable to focus at all no matter what I do with lens spot/line on wall are the same. I would take pics but to dim to show up.
Tried different tailcap/batteries/lens and its dead now for sure.
Any idea's?
I just want opinions on why it died.
Stats of laser:
660nm
LPC-826 driven at 530ma by Survival lasers driver.
Had about 20 Hours of runtime on it in which it never had any issues
Was never dropped, shocked in any way, never stored with batteries in it or without lens so diode was never exposed.
When it died I was installing another knock off G2 lens that's new to me to test its power on my LPM.
I turned it on few seconds with old lens to test and worked fine, installed new lens turned it on and was at full power but out of focus, as I was bringing it into focus turning the lens(still on at full power) and had it 95% into focus dot was 2" on wall and it just dropped to 1% output or less. No flicker no off then back on it stayed on the whole time just went from full power to almost no output now. It has a 3-4" round glow on wall with a brighter thin line through the middle. Total output a lot lower than a 5mw pointer. And am completely unable to focus at all no matter what I do with lens spot/line on wall are the same. I would take pics but to dim to show up.
Tried different tailcap/batteries/lens and its dead now for sure.
Any idea's?