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So some of you may remember a long while ago, I had a LaserBTB 150 mW 520 nm laser, that unfortunately go turned on while in its storage box and overheated, causing the diode to burn out.
So after coming to an arrangement with the owner of LaserBTB, I sent it on its way to be replaced, only to find that through mistakes by both myself and the owner, that I sent it to an address that doesn't exist. I thought my laser would be lost to the void and I bitterly ate the 200+ $ cost of that laser.
Until this morning, when I received the box I sent so long ago with a big RETURN TO SENDER sticker on it. After close to a year, my laser had found its way back to me.
But that isn't the most amazing part.
On purely a whim, I stuck some batteries in it, and to my utter astonishment, a beam of glorious 520 nm light shot out! I'm absolutely dumbfounded, as the box was never opened and the laser had never been repaired. How could diode that refused to light after 3 days of trying to fix it, suddenly work after being in the mail for nearly a year?
So after coming to an arrangement with the owner of LaserBTB, I sent it on its way to be replaced, only to find that through mistakes by both myself and the owner, that I sent it to an address that doesn't exist. I thought my laser would be lost to the void and I bitterly ate the 200+ $ cost of that laser.
Until this morning, when I received the box I sent so long ago with a big RETURN TO SENDER sticker on it. After close to a year, my laser had found its way back to me.
But that isn't the most amazing part.
On purely a whim, I stuck some batteries in it, and to my utter astonishment, a beam of glorious 520 nm light shot out! I'm absolutely dumbfounded, as the box was never opened and the laser had never been repaired. How could diode that refused to light after 3 days of trying to fix it, suddenly work after being in the mail for nearly a year?
