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Either way thanks for your help, I really appreciate it. I guess I'll look into buying a more powerful purple laser, I saw that there's a lot of info on these forums about them, so I'll search around for options here. Thanks again!

I have tried focusing it, but it still doesn't burn anything. The only way to burn something is to remove the lense, after which the dot turns into a huge circle on the wall, and holding it really close to something black. Only then does it burn anything, and still barely does it.

I do have another pointer that started acting up (flickering and cutting out). I guess I could rip out the diode and driver and try to put it into the new one, but the old one is a pen style one with a button on the side whereas the new one has a button at the bottom. And soldering the old...

Thanks for the reply. It's unfortunate that I can't do anything with it. There's a lens in the front of the pointer that that can be screwed closer or further away from the laser diode, and the top of the laser pointer that houses the lens can be screwed off, so I guess that's a yes, it can be...

Hello, I'm new to this forum and would like to apologise in advance if I post this in the wrong place. Now to the reason why I'm making a thread. I've recently purchased a "high power" laser pointer that was advertised as a 1000mw laser (bs I know), the sticker on the laser says "Wavelength...