Recent content by Paulostool

I always use some kind of shaft stoppers as focusing rings on my builds, the pointers looks way better with them and I don’t burn my fingers anymore.

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...

I think I got one by mistake! I only wanted a blue double beam and got 10W instead… 😅

Still available?

Nice host!

The rp2040 ca be a VERY good PWM/signal generator, I’m planning to use in a future project. But use it to command a TTL capable driver as mentioned!

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...

I’ll send him a message and wait a little before trying myself. Thanks for the advices!

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!

That's nice!!! Thinking if there is more of that wavelength, I would love a Micro Torch at ~495nm

I used to work with laser shows in the past and I still have some "tubes" from them. Specifically, I saved 3 modules that were the first diodes I ever pressed: An 450nm 1.6W, 520nm 700mw and 638nm 700mw. I want to turn them into a trio of RGB pointers for the memories, but I have one issue...