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I made this little module out of some spare parts I had around.
A while back I ordered the 15$ O-like driver (When it first came out), and mostly just got it for testing, more or less what that means is that after I screwed around with it, it had been collecting dust.
This module's long and thin shape, lack of heat as it operates (its quite big for how little power it originally gives out) as well as a spring would come in handy for me, and since I wanted a pocket 445 build, that is exactly what I was going to do. This will run the diode rather concervativly.
I used a spare A-140, O-like 445/405 lens (which is even better for this, I am building it for the beam, not power, and the best I got out of this lens was 1.14 milliradian divergance.) and a brass module to hold the A-140 itself.
This resulted in a small little module that will fit into a tail-switch style pocket host, which I still need to machine.
For now, I have this little thing which I am rather happy with how it turned out. I thought might just be fun enough to share:
A quick beam shot of the <1W beam (probably 700mw or so), I wont run this module longer then 4-6seconds as it has no external heatsink yet.
A while back I ordered the 15$ O-like driver (When it first came out), and mostly just got it for testing, more or less what that means is that after I screwed around with it, it had been collecting dust.
This module's long and thin shape, lack of heat as it operates (its quite big for how little power it originally gives out) as well as a spring would come in handy for me, and since I wanted a pocket 445 build, that is exactly what I was going to do. This will run the diode rather concervativly.
I used a spare A-140, O-like 445/405 lens (which is even better for this, I am building it for the beam, not power, and the best I got out of this lens was 1.14 milliradian divergance.) and a brass module to hold the A-140 itself.
This resulted in a small little module that will fit into a tail-switch style pocket host, which I still need to machine.
For now, I have this little thing which I am rather happy with how it turned out. I thought might just be fun enough to share:
A quick beam shot of the <1W beam (probably 700mw or so), I wont run this module longer then 4-6seconds as it has no external heatsink yet.
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