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Good point oic0, I forgot to mention I already have the batteries for flashlights and I didn't get the focusing ring. But still you'll spend less than if you were to buy a spyder now considering the price jump lol

And you won't have Mr. Lucas on your back about owning what he thinks looks like a light saber :na:

Build one bud. I'm waiting for parts for my first 445 build, all said and done I'm spending about $160-$170. Either way it's not too bad and you can set the current higher than either "store bought" model and have a more powerful blue while spending less. Besides building one gives you that...

Veterans park August 14, count me in! Kevin, I'm short on cash right now but give me a bit and I can contribute to the pavilion fee, although it will probably only be a little, but every little bit helps right :)

My thoughts, bad idea. First of all, why do you need an IR laser, especially one that powerful, mounted on your head RIGHT ABOVE YOUR EYES anyway? Regardless of the use, you shouldn't need 3W of power for it to be visible in some way. Let me give you a little scenario... You're walking along...

No offense styropyro, but it sounds like a bad idea to me. This info is already fairly easy to come by, and less-than-intelligent people can already easily enough find it. With YouTube seeing so much traffic, it would just make it to easy for them to just watch the video, take some cash from...

I'm thinking this stuff might do a good job keeping the driver a bit cooler, Aavid Thermalloy - 161000F00000G - Allied Electronics Mobile If you check out aavids website they make a few products that would work fine. The only "drawback" I can see is that it sets solid, making it virtually...

I'd have to agree ZRTMWA! I'm personally just taking my time on this build mainly because I'm waiting until my next paycheck to order the diode and flex, all I've got ordered right now is the 18650 host kit from Jayrob and the aixiz 405 glass lens. It is quite difficult to wait though, after...

Holy crap! I'm so excited now to start my 445 build. I plan to use the 18650 host, a140 at about 1.1A and aixiz 405 glass :D

I don't have any of my own 445 pics yet, still working on getting parts for that build, however a lot of members here do. I've seen a few side-by-side pictures of 445 and 405 and I'm pretty sure just about everyone here has seen wickedlasers video of the sonar and the new S3. Whata ya say we...

Shweeet! My dad and I get into Halloween too. We always use lots of black and blue lights, lasers, LEDs, and a home-made fog chiller that cools the fog from our fog machine and makes it lay right on the ground instead of floating away. We had the entire neighborhood full of smoke this year haha...

Awesome. Very helpfull graphs :yh:

I would assume that thermal epoxy would work just fine, I mean isn't that what it's made for? I'm no expert lol I don't know for sure it just makes sense that it would work.

Awesome I never thought of that lol but it makes sense. Thanks bob. As far as the current goes...poop lol. I guess I'll just need to turn it down :( I guess I could just use it like that till it goes out then just get another one concidering they aren't TOO expensive, but $30 is up there atm...

Aha. Well I thought the batteries voltage may have been an issue too but it was putting out 9.36v. I think it may just be that it can't handle the current like you said, I've got some 3.6v cr123a batteries coming in the mail soon so I'm hoping those will be able to handle the current. And...

Yep all that's correct. All the diodes are in series with the resistor, test with dummy load on, and so on. I used the math equations from Rog8811s site again lol. That's the only reason I wasn't sure that it was just a math error. Now I'm only human so I know it is still possible that I made a...

Depends which sled it comes from. The PHR sleds are pretty easy to disassemble because the glue used in them isnt that hard to remove, most of it is fairly soft. The LPC sleds though are a bit harder, at least for me, to disassemble just because the metal is a very hard metal and the glue is a...

Yeah I just recently started thinking about building my own DPSS 473nm lol. I was looking at some high end crystals that are capable of producing up to 70mW of 473nm when pumped with 2W of 808nm.

Man, dumb people should be legally prohibited to reproduce...and not be alowed to play with high power dangerous toys lol. What an idiot.

I just finished my first 6x BR and I've just got one question. When I tested the driver I built for it with my test load I used 7 1N4001 diodes becuase that gave me a 4.9V drop and the SF-AW210 gives a 4.8V drop. Anyway, I was using the lm317 driver like I have many times before so nothing new...