K, you sent me a PM and without me even getting a chance to answer I will post here as that is apparently what you want. I would not have made this public but you want it this way to vent. So, here's the PM with the answer I was about to send in a PM:
joeyss said:
What the hell man why did you send it with the battery connected in the laser. It lased for about 2 seconds and then went led. Th is a real christmass let down. also it got warm after a min.
I sent it with the battery inside the laser because I have repaired at least 20 lasers for others for 0 profit from them making the error of installing batteries in the wrong direction so I was not going to take that chance with a unit I built. This usually happens the very first time someone installs the batteries as they are too excited and are not paying enough attention to it. There was no way that laser was going to turn on on its own the way it was packaged. The laser said it was coming complete and it did.
It makes no sense to me that you are saying it came on for only 2 seconds AND why was it warm after a minute? How could it be warm if it only lasted 2 seconds? That does not add up. You are contacting me late afternoon on Christmas about it when you have had it since Wednesday the 21st delivered at 10:35AM. I'm supposed to believe that you didn't use it for all those days? Not cool trying to blame me especially as your posts about looking for a class 4 one talk about you pushing the limits of them to begin with from what I remember (would have to look that up myself).
Lasers are consumable products and most of the time we push the diodes beyond what they are rated for and are always taking a chance at blowing them. Diodes can easily blow for many reasons and the 16x 405nm does not like being pushed and I would guess that many members would agree that it is frustrating to work with.
I would never lie about any of my builds and have nothing to hide. You don't appear to have a very good track history with them yourself. There was nothing unusual about that laser build and it was certainly tested including a 5 minute run where the sink wasnt even what I would call warm.
There's a reason why I insist on friends/family payment and that is to protect myself as anything can happen with laser diodes including driver issues. Too easy to blame the builder for things out of his control.
Let the forum be my judge.
I ran it trying to focus it after it led thats when it got warm.
and I ordered it as a Christmas gift thats why i didn't open it till then.
I never had a complete laser just do that when i turn it on.The only lasers that failed on me are modules because i accidentally got the terminals wrong. All my lasers of the past 6 years still work except my first dilda 660 from china.
I can get them shipped in about 1/2 hour from when you pay.
Good luck with these.
