I'm jealous you got your TLR-2 working. I was working on this a year ago and I destroyed my housing trying to get the epoxy out. Now I need to found a new housing, or have one custom built.
So how's it holding up?
I was wondering if there's something I can buy that can place in front of my laser to make small geometric shapes? I'm thinking of wanting to produce a triangle shape at the size of 1 inch at 10 yards away.
Hmm.. after a bit of debugging, I figured out why my diode died. It was getting full 3.3V without current limiting as noticed by my large current ramping. The current limiting board must be in the module itself, but it's so small I couldn't tell it was built in. In fact it looks like a...
You guys can correct me if I'm wrong..
Here's the explanation on how to select # of diodes based on the diode breakdown voltage:
I noticed that if you look at a datasheet of the laser diode, it will tell you operational voltage. This is the voltage value is the target value you want to build...
Here's the situation. I a red laser/light combo unit. I want to replace the red LD with a IR LD. It is integrated together to a switch so I can't just replace the driver board with something else unless I custom a board.
I was hoping to replace the red LD (<1mW output) with a IR LD with...
The switch is controlled by a microswitch. I didn't change that since it's stock for this device. I removed the red laser diode from the module and replaced it with my BR diode. Then I hooked up a flexdrive to the BR laser to power it. Then I removed the UV LEDs and hooked the wires of the...
I took my BR diode and replaced it into one of these..
Pretty sweet.. now I have LED flashlight and then press a switch to switch it to laser mode. Wish I could have kept the red laser in it, but no real estate. Maybe I'll drill a hole and add it in later.
One of the other members mentioned using a mirror ro reflect the laser back so you can look at the diameter of the dot without the need of a buddy. Of course wear your protective glasses since it's a risk due to reflection.
Chris could possibly have 999 happy customers out of 1000. Just takes one negative comment and it circulates around to be a big deal. Considering there's a few people here backing Chris up due to their personal experience I would say that he's probably okay to deal with him.
I don't believe...