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Hey guys, just recently found some time, so I was thinking I could post my first red build and maybe later, my violet build. I couldn't stop at just having a 520nm and a 445nm, so I decided to purchase some hosts from Lifetime, after having told him a year ago that I would purchase from him in the future. I decided to purchase the stainless steel host as well as the Skyray host, for the Oclaro 700 red and the BDR-209 respectively. Here's a picture of the hosts:
This was a pretty easy setup, as I purchased the diodes that were pre-assembled to their drivers from DTR and the hosts were plug and play. So I'll get right to it. As always, the part that scares me the most is cutting the wires down so that they fit nicely into the host. This part actually turned out rather well:
After getting it all set cut to size, I soldered the wires together and heatshrinked them, one at a time. Included with the host was an allen wrench for the heatsink as well as some heatshrink. Unfortunately, one of the pieces of the heatshrink seemed smaller than the other, as it could not fit onto the wire, and that's not anyone's fault of course. So, I just used some of my own heat shrink to wrap up the positive wire.
I didn't take many pictures really, the completed build looked the same as what it looked like in the initial picture. As much as I love the focus knobs from Survival Laser, these came included with the host and I couldn't justify buying more focus knobs as these looked great on the hosts anyway.
I had a really hard time getting a decent beam shot of this one, but as you can see, there's plenty of red to go around.
And that's a wrap for the red laser! Thanks for looking!
This was a pretty easy setup, as I purchased the diodes that were pre-assembled to their drivers from DTR and the hosts were plug and play. So I'll get right to it. As always, the part that scares me the most is cutting the wires down so that they fit nicely into the host. This part actually turned out rather well:
After getting it all set cut to size, I soldered the wires together and heatshrinked them, one at a time. Included with the host was an allen wrench for the heatsink as well as some heatshrink. Unfortunately, one of the pieces of the heatshrink seemed smaller than the other, as it could not fit onto the wire, and that's not anyone's fault of course. So, I just used some of my own heat shrink to wrap up the positive wire.
I didn't take many pictures really, the completed build looked the same as what it looked like in the initial picture. As much as I love the focus knobs from Survival Laser, these came included with the host and I couldn't justify buying more focus knobs as these looked great on the hosts anyway.
I had a really hard time getting a decent beam shot of this one, but as you can see, there's plenty of red to go around.
And that's a wrap for the red laser! Thanks for looking!
