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Got mine today, too. metal body. the AR coating on the lens reflects/looks blue... The coating for red also reflects blue. I'm making a barely educated guess, but shouldn't the coating for blue look sort of redish rather than blueish, as it should be passing blue and reflecting other...

Thanks! When I used the 650-g-1 in aixiz assembly, I got a sharp bar when the beam was in focus. Like, | . Then as it gets unfocused, the bar gets wider and wider.. The bar never gets any shorter, though. It's aways a bar (or as it unfocuses and widens a square, then rectangle), but never...

Copper heat sink, in the cree, too. Why do you think you get a better beam w/ the meridith module? The lens is exactly the same other than the coating.. (unless you're using the meridith lens, and not the 650-g-1) So, if it's the same lens, the difference would be the lens holder assembly...

cree 18650. I just upped the power from 900ma to 1100ma. No trouble so far. :)

Hah, if you were in the US, in the midwest, they'd have followed you home and busted in your door looking for a meth lab... (something about phosphorus in match heads being used in the process)

I put a 650 lens on mine and it got HOT.. noticeably hot! W/ the 405 lens it does not. I'm thinking the 650 was bouncing a bunch of the light around inside the cavity between the diode and lens or something.. I did a few tests to be sure I wasn't imagining it. I'm in STL too! guess Im not...

I just want to mention I'm very glad these weren't around 15 years ago when I first got into lasers. My friends and I would most definitely be blind if we went through our less thoughtful years w/ access to these things. (I remember sitting at a party about 15 years ago W/ a 5mw red...

-Larry, no lenses, just a 'UV Flashlight' (basically) ?

I learned a single diode will boil coffee this morning.. (obviously not a CUP of coffee.. but a point of coffee) These are scary! I need to find a real use for it.. spiro or scanner or something.. it's too much power for a pointer! (who am I trying to fool.. Of course I'm keeping my high...

Cool cool.. and my question was not technically worded at all.. I engineer all day at work, so I'm a little lazy on the forums. I do know the math to figure out the power the wire can carry over the short distance and all, but... again, works been busy so I'm lazy and don't use that part of my...

Dood, I use cat 5 for a LOT of projects, as do many others. Good quality cat 5 is really good wire w/ good teflon insulation. It can be solid or stranded core 24 guage. I'm talking about the individual strands. I'm not saying I was going to put a freakin network cable in the box. :) Id even...

Can I use cat5 as hookup wire for the lasers, or would I be better off having you install the wires? I do have some larger wire to go from the battery to the driver, but it's probably too fat to use for the lasers.

Re: *445nm lasers* !diodes 38.50$! $7.00 gift has been sent. Sorry, didn't put my forum ID in the PP transaction.. whyarealltheidstaken is my pp

Thanks.. It looks like both blue and green need to decrease a bit on that plot. My guess is that 150ish mw of 642 will be about the same as the output I get from a cheap LOC from a dvd burner. Hmm... tho the dvd diode would be running way over spec, and the 642 wouldn't be.. I'll go w/ the...

Re: *445nm lasers* !arrays 550$ and diodes 35$! put me on the waiting list. Keep us updated, Thanks!

Hey thanks! I just wanted to be sure you're still making them. Waiting is not an issue at all. I have a bunch of other parts to collect, so I'll start ordering. I'm definitely down for one of your 'White Fusions' whenever you get it done. Let me know how payments works out.

Can someone w/ Chroma do a plot w/ 130mw of 642nm being the limiting factor? and 445 for the blue. I run linux and dont have enough room on my XP vm drive, and can't get it to run in my Win7 vm... thanks!

I'll take a driver if you have them available. Sent u a pm, thanks!

I'd like to get one of these! Sent you a pm

Thanks! I thought that was a bit high, but figured maybe something had changed since I built my red pointer a couple of years ago :). DO you think you o-like was a bad unit? Or is that after all the loses from optics? I'll get the 150 if I need, but have read other posts about the 50 being...