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I am not very official on reviews but I'll get the point to you.
Link: AixiZ
I have never gotten these to work. No matter what power supply I used, through my test load, when I turned the pot, I got from .8mV to 1.8mV. Joyous.
So I had a 780nm laying around and I was like WTH. I turned it to about 3/4 wired to to the little thing in and connected it to an pack of EIGHT AAAs in series/parallel. Two 6V packs in parallel. Connected it to the driver and BOOM. Something, not sure what exploded and shot sparks (No joke). Scared the shit out of me. Sounded like a gun. I was like damn, so I took my last cheap driver turned the pot the same, hooked it up to an 18650, got a brief flash out of the diode and then it died.
Anyway. Why it blew up, I am not sure. Why the 18650 killed it, not SURE, but I can guess even though it doesn't make sense. 4.2-1.5 = 2.7v...
Anyway, G'day everyone.
Link: AixiZ
I have never gotten these to work. No matter what power supply I used, through my test load, when I turned the pot, I got from .8mV to 1.8mV. Joyous.
So I had a 780nm laying around and I was like WTH. I turned it to about 3/4 wired to to the little thing in and connected it to an pack of EIGHT AAAs in series/parallel. Two 6V packs in parallel. Connected it to the driver and BOOM. Something, not sure what exploded and shot sparks (No joke). Scared the shit out of me. Sounded like a gun. I was like damn, so I took my last cheap driver turned the pot the same, hooked it up to an 18650, got a brief flash out of the diode and then it died.
Anyway. Why it blew up, I am not sure. Why the 18650 killed it, not SURE, but I can guess even though it doesn't make sense. 4.2-1.5 = 2.7v...
Anyway, G'day everyone.