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I completed my build 3 days ago. First, due to my excitement, I tried to solder 2 wires on the flexdrive but my solder gun had too much heat that I went to a friend of my dad's to have the 2 other wires soldered on the flex.
To his suprise, he noticed that a resistor as small as 0.5 mm had been desoldered but was still on the flexdrive. I told him that I accidentally touched some green cover of the board. He told me that I have desoldered that little resistor and I was damn lucky that it didn't fall off the driver. Anyway, in the end, he managed to re-solder that resistor after 20 min of effort. He also soldered the wires from the flex to the diode pins. ( LOC-815 ). I thanked him so much and went back home to see if my laser works.
Fortunately, by the time I had everything connected and threw a cell in the host, the beautiful red light came out. I was so excited at that moment. After one hour, I grabbed my new build to play for a while. But, when I pushed the tail button of the pocket mini, the laser didn't shine. I thought something had been blown, diode or flex might have been fried. The next day I thought, maybe the connection had a problem. As I said in a previous post, I finally found that the metal ring in the back of the host was fault. In the end, I managed to get my laser working again.
The reason I created this thread is to prove that my laser works great and to thank jayrob and dr lava for their components. Thank you guys. oh, I forgot drew for the diode
The next reason is because I wanted to ask you if I can turn the pot of the flex while it is connected to the diode so more current flows through, so more power. I forgot to mention that I compared the dot and beams of my pocket mini and my DX dilda and I noticed they are slightly the same. The DX dilda might be more powerful because I used 2 cr2's which were not fully charged as the 16340 of the pocket mini had been. So, can I turn the pot of the flex counter clockwise to increase the output current and make my laser more powerful? Because look, it should have been more bright as the flex had preset current( considering a preset current of 420mA gives you >200mW). Maybe the pot had been turned a bit making my laser less powerful. I don't know. What you guys think? Thanks in advance
P.S Sorry for the long story but I thought I should have mentioned everything I made so far so you can help me with the pot modding without asking a lot of questions.
To his suprise, he noticed that a resistor as small as 0.5 mm had been desoldered but was still on the flexdrive. I told him that I accidentally touched some green cover of the board. He told me that I have desoldered that little resistor and I was damn lucky that it didn't fall off the driver. Anyway, in the end, he managed to re-solder that resistor after 20 min of effort. He also soldered the wires from the flex to the diode pins. ( LOC-815 ). I thanked him so much and went back home to see if my laser works.
Fortunately, by the time I had everything connected and threw a cell in the host, the beautiful red light came out. I was so excited at that moment. After one hour, I grabbed my new build to play for a while. But, when I pushed the tail button of the pocket mini, the laser didn't shine. I thought something had been blown, diode or flex might have been fried. The next day I thought, maybe the connection had a problem. As I said in a previous post, I finally found that the metal ring in the back of the host was fault. In the end, I managed to get my laser working again.
The reason I created this thread is to prove that my laser works great and to thank jayrob and dr lava for their components. Thank you guys. oh, I forgot drew for the diode
The next reason is because I wanted to ask you if I can turn the pot of the flex while it is connected to the diode so more current flows through, so more power. I forgot to mention that I compared the dot and beams of my pocket mini and my DX dilda and I noticed they are slightly the same. The DX dilda might be more powerful because I used 2 cr2's which were not fully charged as the 16340 of the pocket mini had been. So, can I turn the pot of the flex counter clockwise to increase the output current and make my laser more powerful? Because look, it should have been more bright as the flex had preset current( considering a preset current of 420mA gives you >200mW). Maybe the pot had been turned a bit making my laser less powerful. I don't know. What you guys think? Thanks in advance
P.S Sorry for the long story but I thought I should have mentioned everything I made so far so you can help me with the pot modding without asking a lot of questions.
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