Recent content by stephenkall

Thanks for the information! I was already browsing the sticky threads this afternoon and indeed there is a lot of useful data there. I always liked to play with lasers but I had no idea that there was a whole hobby built around them, and it is fascinating! Thank you very much for your assistance!

Thanks for the feedback! Sorry for asking you that, but I'm kinda new here... By "LEDed" you mean it's probably dead, right? If that's the case, why would it be beneficial to replace the host? Could you please point me to some material to read about it? Thank you and best regards!

Thanks for the reply! Unfortunatelly, I don't have another diode and/or driver, so it might be impossible to test. Also, looks like this is a cheap laser (I don't know, a new one costs about 20 dollars?), so I believe it would be impracticable to send this overseas to get repaired - it would...

Hello, guys! I just found a generic old pointer which a relative purchased few years ago. It's a 200mW 405nm Class IIIb blue laser pointer, that uses 2xCR2 3V batteries. Thing is that this laser was working well by the time it was purchased, but not so much right now... What happens? Light is...