The Copperhead: 330mW of sheer, red photons!

This is the latest addition to my laser collection
It is a Pocket Pal style Open can laser, with a custom copper heatsink (exclusive, and no more will be made), and a Meredith glass lens.
The heart is an open can diode being driven at 450mA using a flexdrive. With brand new Energizer Lithiums, the output is 330mW, according to my LPM [smiley=evil.gif]

It feels very heavy in your hand, due to the copper heatsink and Meredith module, and is very solid, with no loose parts or wobbling.
It would probably survive a drop on concrete, but i ain't gonna try that out
The Meredith module makes the beam REALLY thin and diverge less than with an AixiZ module. The focusing ring does not wobble either.
This laser can not be replicated, because it is made with a genuine Pocket Pal, from the original manufacturers. Not the sku. 46 from DX. This host eliminates the tail clicky problems with the Sku. 46 hosts. A heatsink like this will never be made again, as it is exclusive.
This laser is freakin' awesome! If i swipe a match through the path of the beam, it will already be lit!
Here are some pics (and a video link at the very bottom

That is a sweet build!

I'm sure others can easily duplicate the heatsink, I just said that I don't want to make anymore copper ones because the copper is hard on my mini lathe...

Edit: I am making copper heatsinks for my Pocket Mini build though...

But that really turned out nice Spyder. I can imagine how heavy it must feel in your hand. The copper probably weighs 3 times more than aluminum...
Jay

That looks awesome! Nice work, now lets see some action shots...

jayrob said:

That is a sweet build!

I'm sure others can easily duplicate the heatsink, I just said that I don't want to make anymore copper ones because the copper is hard on my mini lathe...

But that really turned out nice Spyder. I can imagine how heavy it must feel in your hand. The copper probably weighs 3 times more than aluminum...
Jay

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Yea, but it won't look be as cool

styropyro said:

That looks awesome! Nice work, now lets see some action shots...

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I'll take some

Have you seen the video at the bottom?

Oh nice! I didn't see that video link before!

Dude, you went through that tape like butter...

I made a Meredith Pocket Pal build (sold) and I was able to get the module set inside farther so that the focus knob was nearly flush with the heatsink. Not that it matters, but it's just an observation...
Jay

jayrob said:

Oh nice! I didn't see that video link before!

Dude, you went through that tape like butter...

I made a Meredith Pocket Pal build (sold) and I was able to get the module set inside farther so that the focus knob was nearly flush with the heatsink. Not that it matters, but it's just an observation...
Jay

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Yea, and it wasn't even at it's focal point
Interesting... How did you go about doing this without the module sticking out of the rear of the heatsink?
Was it the side-button pocket pal with the copper heatsink?

I made a Meredith Side button pocket pal too, but also a Pocket Pal like yours. There was barely enough room with the wire leads 'bent' 90 degrees right at the diode pins. I bend the wires over right when I heat the heat shrink tubing, then the heat shrink tubing cools, and holds the wires bent over...

Meredith glass blu-ray...

Jay

P.S. With my blu-ray build, the lens screwed in farther for focus, and with a red (like yours), it will not be screwed in as far for focus. So it will need a little more room inside than a blu-ray build if you want the focus knob to be flush. But I think there may be room.

jayrob said:

I made a Meredith Side button pocket pal too, but also a Pocket Pal like yours. There was barely enough room with the wire leads 'bent' 90 degrees right at the diode pins. I bend the wires over right when I heat the heat shrink tubing, then the heat shrink tubing cools, and holds the wires bent over...
Jay

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Oh...
So that's how you do it...
When i put the shrink tubing on, i bend the wires after i have heated the tubing :

EDIT:
The module on my laser is perfectly flush with the heatsink...
The focusing ring sticks out because i had it focused to infinity.
Look at the second picture, and you will see what i mean

That's nice ! How far did this set ya back ?
And would you ever sell this ?

L@z3r said:

That's nice ! How far did this set ya back ?
And would you ever sell this ?

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What do you mean by that?
And no, i am not planning on selling this one.
It is my lovely child ;D

Spyderz20x6 said:

[quote author=L@z3r link=1232830844/0#9 date=1232844814]That's nice ! How far did this set ya back ?
And would you ever sell this ?

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What do you mean by that?
And no, i am not planning on selling this one.
It is my lovely child ;D[/quote]
He meant how much did it cost you to make.

styropyro said:

[quote author=Spyderz20x6 link=1232830844/0#10 date=1232845030][quote author=L@z3r link=1232830844/0#9 date=1232844814]That's nice ! How far did this set ya back ?
And would you ever sell this ?

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What do you mean by that?
And no, i am not planning on selling this one.
It is my lovely child ;D[/quote]
He meant how much did it cost you to make.

[/quote]
Oh, ok!
Cost about $140...

Spyderz20x6 said:

[quote author=styropyro link=1232830844/0#11 date=1232845676][quote author=Spyderz20x6 link=1232830844/0#10 date=1232845030][quote author=L@z3r link=1232830844/0#9 date=1232844814]That's nice ! How far did this set ya back ?
And would you ever sell this ?

Click to expand...

What do you mean by that?
And no, i am not planning on selling this one.
It is my lovely child ;D[/quote]
He meant how much did it cost you to make.

[/quote]
Oh, ok!
Cost about $140...
[/quote]
Wow that's alot ! Well im only 14 and have no job so money is kinda hard to come by.

L@z3r said:

[quote author=Spyderz20x6 link=1232830844/0#12 date=1232845899][quote author=styropyro link=1232830844/0#11 date=1232845676][quote author=Spyderz20x6 link=1232830844/0#10 date=1232845030][quote author=L@z3r link=1232830844/0#9 date=1232844814]That's nice ! How far did this set ya back ?
And would you ever sell this ?

Click to expand...

What do you mean by that?
And no, i am not planning on selling this one.
It is my lovely child ;D[/quote]
He meant how much did it cost you to make.

[/quote]
Oh, ok!
Cost about $140...
[/quote]
Wow that's alot ! Well im only 14 and have no job so money is kinda hard to come by. [/quote]
Yea, it's an expensive project.
If i were to sell them, they would go for about $200.

A Meredith glass module shipped to the U.S. from Meredith is $47 dollars by itself!
Jay