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Hey everyone! So I got bored with my current lasers, and decided to do something a tad challenging to me. Probably not too challenging for many of you out there, but I hadn't seen it done besides Daves solitaire 445, but that was direct drive. So I made a mag solitaire blu-ray laser, WITH a driver.
I made a ton of tiny mods to the solitaire and aixiz module, too many to list...but heres a few. I shortened the module, filed the diameter down, and i modified the tailcap of the mag, it is now a back-twist on laser. I used a 12v battery instead of a AAA, which gave me much more room in the host, and I used an LM317 driver setup. I used a 10 ohm 1/4W resistor, so I should be getting around 90-100mW, with an aixiz plastic 405 lens. and it's running great The only problem is that i only get around 30 minutes runtime. But, i did it on the cheap, and the whole project cost me about 30 bucks. Here's some pictures!^^ Oh, and the goggles in the picture are O-like's 405, 445, and infrared goggles. They work very, VERY well, as you can see in the picture.
The pins I soldered onto the diode didnt entirely fit into the spaces, so I used a small plastic ring from a pen to keep the pins from getting smushed. That's the white thing you see in picture number 7.
Thanks for looking!:thanks:
Edit: sorry for the blurry pictures, I hate my camera...
I made a ton of tiny mods to the solitaire and aixiz module, too many to list...but heres a few. I shortened the module, filed the diameter down, and i modified the tailcap of the mag, it is now a back-twist on laser. I used a 12v battery instead of a AAA, which gave me much more room in the host, and I used an LM317 driver setup. I used a 10 ohm 1/4W resistor, so I should be getting around 90-100mW, with an aixiz plastic 405 lens. and it's running great The only problem is that i only get around 30 minutes runtime. But, i did it on the cheap, and the whole project cost me about 30 bucks. Here's some pictures!^^ Oh, and the goggles in the picture are O-like's 405, 445, and infrared goggles. They work very, VERY well, as you can see in the picture.
The pins I soldered onto the diode didnt entirely fit into the spaces, so I used a small plastic ring from a pen to keep the pins from getting smushed. That's the white thing you see in picture number 7.
Thanks for looking!:thanks:
Edit: sorry for the blurry pictures, I hate my camera...