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Okay, so after some comments said it needed a heatsink, I added one and I even added a fan. The diode turned on for maybe 3 seconds, but it turned dark after, I even cranked the current control down by a lot which should reduce the heat too. (Sorry for the terrible image quality)

I only ran it for like 10 seconds at a time, should it burn out that quick?

Recently I bought a new NDG7475 laser diode off of eBay along with a 1.8A SXD Super X-Drive Laser Driver M140 driver. Once hooked up, the diode doesn't turn on, some times it does but the output is dim and goes out pretty fast. I returned the driver and bought a new one, which did a similar...