My laser collection (all SL stainless stell hosts and S4X)

Few picture of my 10 lasers hosts assembly (survival laser stainless stell hosts)
I'm French and I can make a lot of mistake in english.

My advice for mounting:

- Remember to protect your eyes / handle a laser (beam or reflections) like an "infinite length" knife for eyes
- I don't use heat shrink on diode pin - it's useless when welds are clean, and I keep diode easy to change -
- Brass ring are not pressed completly onto pill to keep it unmountable - juss press a bit with hands -
- I never use the x-boost driver - it always kill the diode if there is a "sparky" condition on power supply side or a bad switch bounce! - remember also a boost-only driver can kill the diode if voltage on battery is more than diode voltage drop
- Switch upgrade way better than SL stock or spare switch (I order them not-assembled/as kit to get better precision and solder quality) - LINK: HQ switch + gold PCB&spring
- 3D printed washer to replace stock metal washer on switch assembly
- Never power on a powerful blue laser with the whell know glow in the dark dust cap else the silicone will degrade and the smoke go on the lens! I use this instead - LINK: Transparent dust cap for high power blue laser
- Remember, mirror bounce to laser can kill the diode even if powered at datasheet value (near all energy is re-focused exactly to the output mirror resulting in a COD failure).

- RGBV singlemode diodes with three or two element Aixiz lenses -> Replaced with new LFL G2 lenses (aliexpress)
R) Mitsubishi LPC-840 5.6mm 300mW 660nm
R) Mitsubishi ML520G55 5.6mm 180mW 638nm
G) NDG4216 3.8mm 100mW 515nm -> Replaced with the new Osram PL520B way better beam spec
B) PLP450 5.6mm 450nm
V) BDR-209 16x bluray diode (with hard to find long focal "G2-LFL" lense)

- RGB multimode diodes with G2 lenses -> Replaced with new LFL G2 lenses (aliexpress)
R) HL63193MG 5.6mm 638nm
G) NDG7475 9mm 520nm
B) NUBM07E 9mm 465nm
B) NDB7875 9mm 445nm
B) NUBM44 9mm 450nm (S4X big host)

Full size pictures : Lasers - Album on Imgur

Nice pics and good looking lasers Serveurperso, but you should resize them so they are 800 wide maximum.
I think I know who Gary's favorite customer is! :crackup:
:gj:

I like all of the silver stainless steel. They somehow add to the laser's coolness:drool:

Great job! They turned out very well.

Survival Lasers makes that easy with high quality kits but still they require careful focused effort to build and good soldering skills

Very nice collection---I agree the stainless steel hosts are great.

Those look really nice together. +REP

good luck with the sale!!

Isaac Clarke said:

good luck with the sale!!

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They are not for sale

Serveurperso said:

They are not for sale

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wait... what?

so you are just showing off then?:tinfoil:

nice collection...

You can buy parts from SL and DTR

I received t-shirts from SL !!!

update with all 10 lasers and advice

That picture with all the wavelengths parallel is awesome! You definitely have a nice collection of lasers, I didn't see any visible markers how do you distinguish between each one? Or do you turn each one on till you find the right one?

Awesome beam shots!

Smartphone CMOS camera sensor can't get the difference but the eyes can do it easily ! First red is red and second is a bit orange. Same for blue all are different

Awesome pics mate, nice collection!

CaliKirk said:

That picture with all the wavelengths parallel is awesome! You definitely have a nice collection of lasers, I didn't see any visible markers how do you distinguish between each one? Or do you turn each one on till you find the right one?

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I recognize some with focus lens length difference
multimode = extended focus ring
minor host difference
storage box position