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For protection from diffuse reflections, industrial laser cutting/welding goggles are what I use, mine are Cloudray brand that fit over your glasses. Read the specs and search by wavelength here. These look nifty and the gold color unit offers OD10+ from 880nm to 1070nm...

My bet is JL designed enough spring range in their battery pack to accommodate most 18650 cells. :)

https://sites.google.com/site/dtrslasershop/dtrs-shop/laser-drivers https://jlasers.org/ https://barnettunlimited.com/ https://www.mainelylasers.com/category/parts https://odicforce.com/

It's only 10mm so if 2 cells that's just a 5mm solder button each. 22600 The 1st 2 digits are the width ( 22mm ), and last 3 digits are the length ( 60.0 mm ) OP could also make a conductive spacer from a slice of a wooded dowel or poly rod with a conductive core. Some people use neodymium...

Just use a 22500 in place of your 22600 and add a blob of solder to make a button if needed, remember to rub the blob against a piece of sandpaper on a flat surface to make a good flat contact patch.

Hey zigzag123, how are you? I know you can get small batch circuit boards custom made, I haven't looked at ordering any in a while, but if you search it out, you will find it. Remember to vary your search wording and keep plugging away, literally everything is out there. Here's just a couple...

Are you building a flashlight style laser, maybe you could use one of the round battery board drivers? https://mtnelectronics.com/index.php?route=common/home

In their pic you can see they are non button tops. Any quality 18650 cell should be fine for a 1w.

Almost 12W at 21C, very nice.

Yeah, still waiting. Have you seen anything for sale?

Yea I know, frightening.

Thin steel such as tin cans and razor blades yes, from up close, but these hand helds made from pump arrays lack the proper cooling for sustained work.

Spotted this XJ-F11X only 233hours 100.00 w/free ship.

Very nice Paulostool, I'm a big fan of multiple beams myself, here's a thread I made of my multiple beam musings with some pics, I also have some new ideas that I hope to find time to work on someday. https://laserpointerforums.com/threads/multiple-beams.106896/

Please post your results and some pics, we always enjoy seeing new builds.:)