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1W 808nm for night vision






I'm a hunting guide and outdoors men and on big game hunts at night i use a B.E Meyers IZLID 3-WATT
heres a link to there website
B.E. Meyers
 
If this is being used for training proper precautions need to take place as a 1W 808nm is just as powerful as 1W of another wavelength at destroying your eyesight.
 
yes my son, no training here, i currently have it pressed into a MOD9 module and start testing today.

Did some testing, at 500mA (35.7% of operating current) the beam is pretty bloody bright under night vision optics....in the day time!

It scares the crap out of me atm because i dont have my OEM IR glasses yet, but they are in the mail and have been pointing the laser away from me and at objects 20m+ away.
 
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Ok so its been a while since ive played with this diode.

I was running 2x of these in parrallel: IR Driver

and was LPM'ing at 150mW?

Now i have built this 1.25A Negative Regulating driver,



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Now it only LPM's at 82mW?

What could be going wrong?

Does IR LPM differently to the visible colors? could the Diode be damaged?
 
Fiddy said:
Now it only LPM's at 82mW?

What could be going wrong?

Does IR LPM differently to the visible colors? could the Diode be damaged?
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it's quite easy to destroy the diode, I have popped a few when I first started building eg. not using a heatsink or incorrectly regulating the voltage!

I have built a couple of 1w 808nm (TO 9mm) without lenses for night vision illumination, they out perform the onboard IR illuminator on my yukon NV set by around 3x, I also have a 3w 808nm cmount with lens, I prefer the cmount diode, I am able to see objects 500m away while lighting up an area 100m wide (without lens) on the darkest of nights, if I use the focus lens and spot the beam I can point out objects around 3km. But I sure would not like to point it at my buddies!
Before playing with lasers I built a 32 LED's IR 808nm torch, the 1watt laser gives better illumination!
So now I am busy building 3 x 4w 960nm (cmount) into maglite hosts for total invisibility, dont like the slight red glow from 808nm
Also have a 100w diode bar for the same purpose, just haven't completed the driver yet, can't wait to "see" the power!
 
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Have you had them LPM'd?

i might change it out, ive got a spare 9mm 1w 808nm, only got desolder/solder 1 wire.

I tested the current going into the driver and it was 1.22A's too.
 
No I haven't
I just compare each diode's output with my NV, dont know what the actual watts are but you can clearly see if a diode is bust or not, or has lost some lasing power, the one diode I fried stopped lasing and I could clearly see this through my NV camera but the diode still had light coming out, like a bright LED. If I had to geuss its output after I stuffed it up it may be around 80mw or so!
 
well if it was LED'd with a lens, i could still see beam under night vision, i just switched to another diode, looks brighter, havent LPM'd it yet tho.
 
What about gutting a cheap 532nm?
If you remove the crystal setup you would have the IR diode, driver, flashlight host, and an adjustable lens.
 
i don't really come across 532nm lasers down under, i dont think they would be as powerful as the one i built either.
 
Sweet just seen this thread... SEAL team 6 uses this set up for night vision shooting/sighting.
 
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