Man you go screwed over lol, i feel your pain, I would beat your friends ass IMO, jk, it depends on how well you like your friend, I need to finish my work, I'm in class right now... Calculus 104 sucks lol.
You sure it was a H20L and not a SF210? Because I have not heard of a "true" 6X failing at 209mA, what heatsink where you using, like a Jayrob or Darkhorse sink?
Well your just taking the light outside and focusing it to a dot with a lens, same concept with a diode, scattered light into collimated focused light.
I liked the old rep system, as stated for BST and stuff, but look what happened to mogheburg for selling lasers....
The new rep is nice, like ken said, if we could view their rep it would be more useful.
Mine is set at 200mA, and has been running fine on 1min on 1min off approx. 5 hours runtime, Like jay said, "What heatsink are you using" that could be the problem. Or at least the most obvious one.