I have noticed a few people selling home modifications of lasers and not mentioning that fact in the auctions,
if its been a home modification, its only fair to mention,
though if built well these can be just as good if not more robust than factory ones.
wtf is that supposed to mean? ;D
Obviously his laser is a home modification, and if it's anything like the one I got from wallydraigle, it's not a very good one.
Update on this situation BTW:
When I got said 'laser' from wallydraigle, it didn't work at all. Nada, nothing, zilch. So now I had to get it apart. I think the guy used freaking JB weld on the threads for the top part of the laser. I struggled for a couple hours trying to get this thing off. Finally, I got it to break free, with just a couple small scratches to the tube itself. I took a look at the driver setup etc. The problem was that the diode was not ground to the case, yet he had a wire leading from the battery negative end of the driver to the head of the dilda. This is completely unnecessary if your diode is grounded to the case. It would have made more sense if this wire went to the diode itself, but it went to the case of the laser, which the diode wasn't electrically touching. So, a few drops of solder later it was a complete connection. Unfortunately, the diode worked on and off for a few minutes. No idea what was wrong with it, all the connections were good but it would randomly turn off or turn on. I think a wire inside the diode itself had some loose. When it came back on for the last time, it was an LED. So it lived for about 4 minutes. I couldn't even tell what kind of diode it was. The PHR and the 6x diode visually look identical, and I didn't get a chance to look at the beam pattern before it died.
But, all gray clouds have a silver lining, right? SO, I took one of my 803T sleds, got the diode out and set to work on building another dilda ray (I think this was my 5th one...). Remember how mitch said he used a 'high quality glass lens'? Nope. Regular aixiz acrylic and the back wasn't even cut out. Anyway, I got everything all soldered up and dialed in, and it does 115mW now. It's getting shipped first thing on monday. Wallydraigle has been waiting for his 14500 battery, and I wanted to repaint the barrel to fix the scratches. It was done about a week and a half ago but now it's finally going to it's final home. Oh yeah, did I mention that half way through building this thing the switch in the tailcap just decided to stop working? Yeah. I took it apart and some of the plastic pieces inside were broken. SO that was another delay. But, thanks to bionic badger for helping me out with that and getting me a new switch!
I personally am glad Mpmitch is not on here anymore.