Multi Wave, Single Can?

Still looking for a decent quality multiwave for my nightscope project. What I want shouldn't be too hard to find, I want a bright red 650nm, and an infrared 700+nm in one can. I found one in the PHR-803t, but those sucked, they dimmed out really quick. What I really need is one of those dual wave, 4 pin cans from an old burner. I read somewhere that the PS3 laser has red, ir, and a blueray in one can, but I don't need the blueray, and that's still just a reader. Does anybody know of a source (what model burners had those?) of, or even have one of those around? Just thought I would mention that I looked up infrared/red laser dot weapon sights, just for info, and they start at about $350, if you can find one at all, which is nuts. I built my own, and if I can find a source for more diodes, I might build a few for profit, since those are rediculously overpriced, why not?

How many mW are you looking for of 650nm & 780nm IR? What generation night vision?
I don't know but my guess would be dual wavelength diodes will be low power. I believe I read someone made a Red/BluRay & it was quite low. Plus it overheated if both were powered simultaneously.
Do you currently have a working sight using a dual wavelength diode?

~Edit~ Thought I had info on the PHR-803t 650nm/780nm diode but I don't see it. What power were you trying to drive it at?

Intermittantly working. I built it out of an old gen 1 monocular, and it works fine, except that the 803t diode has gone again. It has worked fantasticly, using the first diode I used, which was IR only, that diode having been harvested from an old cd burner. My only complaint was that it would be so much simpler to "boresight" were it not almost impossible to see the laser dot. With the dual wave laser, I had it rigged to a 3 position switch (I used the center position as "off", wired to dump the capacitor to ground), so I could switch between the two, and in "red" mode, it's a breeze to allign the thing, put the whole gun in my vise, to mount it static, and test fire into a static target. Then i just adjust the dot to the hole that the bb made. I know that there used to be diodes like that, because I had one, back before I knew nothing, and blew it up just as quick as I harvested it. The new burners now days don't use the 5.6mm cans, anymore. And sometimes they just use 2 seperate cans. but I know that they are out there, too bad you have to find, then completely dismember the damn drives to even see what they have, you know? It's like canned goods missing the labels, hunting for diodes to harvest. Like that old gameshow: "I think I'll take the diodes out of drive behind door number 3, please"
I don't know really about power, the 803t diodes, even when fresh, weren't really up to it, I want as much as I can get. My driver for that I made from an LM317, and I have a pot/knob on the side of the thing that attenuates the power, so I could adjust the power on the fly. There is a resistor as a limiter inline with the pot. I can make any diode work with this, I just need to find one that's worth anything: from a cd/dvd burner.........

This is my modded out Drozd "BB" gun, with my diy nightscope on it. It's all wired to a single lithium battery, now, that along with the laser and driver components, is all stuffed into the base of it. I made that out of a Radio Shack project enclosure box. It looks funny, but it only cost about $120, or so, originally, to make, and it works exceptionally well, in fact, if I could find a strong dual wave single can diode, it would be perfect. This is the project from which my whole new "laser lab" thing sprung, if not for this, I wouldn't be here, now. Nor would I have the way cool 1+ watt blue phaser I built.

I'll have you know that this sucker spits out BB's or .177 lead buckshot at nearly 1000 feet per second, and at selectable cyclic rates up to 2000 rounds per minute. It'll preferate 1/2" plywood, no problem. You'll NEVER see pidgeons anywhere near my yard. "Puree of Squab, anyone?"

i think that those single lens ps3 laser sleds have 3 wavelengts in one...they have it at dealextreme
here's one:
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I think the aim would only be right for one wavelength. Of course, maybe an airgun isn't the most accurate thing. Do you remember if there was any angular variance between the two dots in your previous "dual-wave" unit?

None whatsoever, they were dead on.