Interesting, they pretty similar but I noticed the Osram have a bigger offset between diodes (1.5mm) than all the Nichia’s (1mm to 1.25mm)
Are the Osram attainable? I would love to play with this slighter bigger distance…
This is just a shaft stop working as a better focusing ring.
The set screw is holding it to the usual 12mm focusing ring, with this setup I can also set the maximum focus at infinity and still have the ability to focus it at closer distances.
I run ran of G7’s so this is using a 3E glass.
I think I have one G8 that I got specifically for this laser, but I’m not finding it… :/
@800mA you should be getting somewhere around 1250mw
I decided to not push harder to not shift the WL more and play safe with the LD, the goal was getting a...
Some beam shots and comparison with a Sanwu 500mw 462nm challenger
The divergence is not much different, not bad at all!
Unfortunately the camera cannot pickup the color difference…
Got a KLC420FS01WW from LaserTree and built into a polished titanium Convoy T3, driving it with a 800ma boost driver.
This measured at 420.9nm with a LittleGarden spectrometer, so still count as 420nm for me :)
The color? Purple! Not the strange 405nm violet or the purplebluish from 445nm blue...
Got this little rgb module to replace an very bad one that I have inside a small projector.
I went with the 500mw version, only 25 dollars!
The white balance is good and it came aligned, I don’t have a LPM but this don’t look different from half watt.
But the diodes were oriented all...
Yes, this was my first thought..
But I don’t want to risk these diodes because of the sentimental value. I never pressed a working diode out 😅
As they are already in the module with leads, and I don’t have much urgency, I can wait to see if I can get someone to machine the heatsinks.
Or try...
Yes, the current plan is to go with Survival Lasers hosts and heatsinks.
Unfortunately I don’t have access to a table drill, but I’m also not good at operating one.
Let’s see if someone appears, thanks for the advices!