Hello,
I had to learn, that I had no 500 mA driver left. So I set a LM 317 to 60 mA. The diode was very dim, but gets much better at 100mA.
It was hard to see, that the LM317 did not regulate with this diode at 8,4V. The voltage drop of the diode is too high.
Tomorrow I will desolder the 500...