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So my sister had a Cricut Explore, a while back after not being able to connect to it she bought a new one. I was taking a look at the old one yesterday and got it working with connecting via USB. Any who, enough of the TMI, looking at it I started thinking it could be easily made to hold a...

All worked out as far as I can tell, powers on and plays. I ended up leaving the thermal protection inline, figured it shouldn't hurt anything. Bored holes through the back and ran the wires out and used a JST connector o ease possible future disassembly. Hot glue secures my mods.

It actually quite simplified now for me finding out what I thought was a third battery tab was just the + tab with a thermal protection. The way it was setup made it look like a third tab. So I'll solder my battery holder to the inputs on the board, first try I'll solder the + so the thermal...

The battery was fine until I happened to it, the issue is the USB/charge port is boogered. So instead of a costly port repair I'm attempting an external 18650 array mounted on the back. Come on man, did you even read the post?! Guess that's what I get asking for Switch help on a laser forum...

So my great nephew has a Switch Lite that stopped charging, upon taking it apart I found the charge port solid but it's pins bent back in. Repair isn't far from replacing price wise, and something I'm not willing to even try as it's soldered to the mainboard. I came up with the idea of running...

Seconded.

You sound like you're about in my position when I first came here years ago. While you certainly can go the path you're asking about, I'd highly recommend for a first build buying a diode and driver tuned to power it. I tried more or less your approach when I joined and didn't work out too well...

Awesome, the LP of giants! Dude is pretty funny as well.

Our hosts are different but I'd be surprised if the configuration isn't. I removed the lens from my "crown" and replaced it with a G2 lens and all it did was magnify a square/rectangle dot to the point of looking like it was projecting an Alice in Wonderland door on my wall. I think they're just...

I have the same deal except mine is a gatling host and noticed the square dot. I chalked it off to being cheap. I have a G2 lens I'll have to try in it. Edit: I suspect the fixed lens in it will make trying the G2 a little difficult. Edit 2: I got my fixed lens out, they put some kind of...

So I soldered up a battery holder, ran the wires out through where the AC prongs were and up the sides where I tinned them and hot glued to act as posts I can clip on the alligator leads that came with the charger. Selecting the LiIo profile gives me a default storage v of 3.6v and out of the...

No experience here, but Barnett does have a G-Ball Adjustable Lens Adapter

Well, not really but that doesn't mean I'm not interested! :ROFLMAO: The uranium/vaseline glass I was watching evidently is more popular than I imagined, it went from 0 bids up to 20+ in the last couple hours. I'd like to get a few small trinkets fun to lase.

Cool vid, neat watching. Couldn't help thinking of dot matrix printers evolved they'd now be laser-dot matrix printers and print something like that. It sounds like you etched PCBs before, I've never but always wanted to try image etching.

Came up with the idea last weekend, started off trying to cut a circle out of some styrene sheet I had and ended up ordering some acrylic rounds off Amazon. Laid out the coins and made a template for marking holes on the acrylic, then center punched each, 1/16" bit drilled, then reamed out to...

I think my charger has a preset voltage it discharges to based on battery chemistry, been quite a while since I've used it. But it 3.5-3.8 seems it was around the recommended storage level. One of the chargers that came with one of my el cheapo Cool Lasers laser will get sacrificed as a battery...

That's what I was thinking, guess I was just looking for confirmation before rigging up a cell holder for my RC charger. It also discharges.

Hey hey, So I'd ordered a few batteries from liionwholesale, and really more than I needed and likely to see very little if any use. From my days in RC with LiPos it was recommended to discharge a battery to a storage level when it wasn't going to be used for awhile. Should I do the same with...

Hopefully you'll run it again next year, and further hoping I'll have the surplus cash to pick up a power meter and GPS Max Speed Module. Good to see vendors giving back to the community that helps support them!

Pretty sweet laser, very nice build. The heatsink/head on that thing is huge, or maybe its shortness lends to it appearing larger. Becareful where you point that thing, you might scare Zelenskyy! :ROFLMAO: