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you have to love the dam post office. i got all my parts to make my laser but the 3ohm resistor. it was shipped on the 6th and the post office lost it until the 8th.
now it is on the way here.

i have a diode from a sony nec 20x burner. th one listed on the forum to get. right now i am putting out about around 230ma using my lm317 driver.
stuck until my resistor come to up the power.
so what is the max about of MA i can use with this diode. it is a open can i am running on 6 aa until the 3.6v batterys come next week

thank you again post office.