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FrozenGate by Avery

blue/violet laser

All the ones i've gotten have unscrewed in the middle and had silver tips and said 'laser pointer' on the clip. My first batch probably came from that same guy. They shipped out of Louisiana somewhere if I remember right.
 





qumefox said:
There are a bunch of different ebay sellers selling these pens around the same price roughly.. varies by a few dollars. Your saying none of them will ship to you?

The first batch I got came from a seller in the US. The ones I have on the way now are coming from china though, but they're a few bucks cheaper each.
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Good point, I am just unaccustomed to net shopping.
There are plenty of identical pens out there.
I ordered 3, wonder what they contain and how much abuse they can take. :D
 
If they're like mine, the drivers max at 85mA and are set close to that already from the factory. They'll probably be around 40-50mw. I really think the diodes themselves are identical to PHR's though. I'll know more when mine get here and I dismantle another.. hopefully without breaking pins off the diode this time.
 
Sounds like a good deal to me.
I am looking forward to receiving them. :)
 
I'm still waiting for mine. One thing with LEDShoppe, it does take a good two weeks or more. I ordered it on the 19th and looking at the tracking info, it sat in the HK post office from the 20th until the 25th when it went out. Now it's probably sitting in Customs somewhere in the US. Dang. I wanted to use it this Sunday at a club :)
 
I went ahead and ordered 2 more from the US supplier. I'd like to do a couple experiments and if I kill the diode or the driver, what I have left vs the cost of less than $10ea I can't hardly lose IMO.

Appreciate the driver details qumefox. :thanks:

I'd like to make 1 focusable, with a 405nm glass lens, keep 1 stock, #3 gets a diode "push" test or maybe a driver possible mod only after trying to draw out the circuit and see what I have. If I kill the diode, I will be measuring the ma, it will have a huge heatsink, so I can report where it failed. That still should leave me with the host and a good 85ma boost drive. If I kill the driver....I still have a host and a pretty good 405nm diode left for less than $10.
Please correct me if my thinking is wrong, but this is a 405nm running on a 3v source so it should be a dc to dc "boost" driver?

From a laser noob perspective......I see it as a really "tough to lose situation" if you want to experiment on 405's. I just see a potential for a lot to be learned from an economical 40-50mw 405nm unit.
 
Vaporizer said:
I'd like to make 1 focusable, with a 405nm glass lens, keep 1 stock, #3 gets a diode "push" test or maybe a driver possible mod only after trying to draw out the circuit and see what I have. If I kill the diode, I will be measuring the ma, it will have a huge heatsink, so I can report where it failed. That still should leave me with the host and a good 85ma boost drive. If I kill the driver....I still have a host and a pretty good 405nm diode left for less than $10.
Please correct me if my thinking is wrong, but this is a 405nm running on a 3v source so it should be a dc to dc "boost" driver?

From a laser noob perspective......I see it as a really "tough to lose situation" if you want to experiment on 405's. I just see a potential for a lot to be learned from an economical 40-50mw 405nm unit.
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You won't have any luck with the glass 405 lens if unless you move the diode to an aixiz module or some other diode module. I tried. It's not possible to thread it in far enough to focus it down to a dot. It did increase output from 50 to 54mW though.

As far as modding the driver. It's possible but in no way worth it. You can buy similar drivers capable of more current output for a few bucks.

Actually, even if the diodes are similar in capabilities to PHR's, it's still not worth it. If you need one, PHR's can be had for less than these pens cost.

I'd be interested in the torture test information just for S&G's but in a cost-effective frame of mind, These are just use them as they are till they die lasers.
 
Hmmmm......noobalized myself....lol
For 4mw, that surely isnt worth the price of a glass lens. I have a PHR sled and for some reason I thought it was capable of more. After looking at the compilation thread and its specs I can see why you think they are the same diode. Even the "Enthusiast operating current: 110mA" doesn't leave much room for promise with it running at 85ma now.
It will burn thin black plastic with the Aixiz lens held in front against it. It dots at abt 1/8-1/4" from the end though.

Good thing I liked them as they are.............
I have a couple of ideas that they might well be used in later on.

Thanks for the feedback and info.
 
PHR's are capable of more. But they still cost less than these pens do.

And the reason I think these diodes are similar to PHR's is because... Well.. one of my pens has a PHR in it... heh. Before I dismantled it, it was doing 46mW @ 76mA. When I removed the module from the pen, I broke the hell out of the diode. Ripped two pins off of it. So it got replaced with a PHR. On the test load, the most I could get out of the driver was 85mA. So that's what it was set at when it got put back together with the PHR diode, and it did 50mW set to 85mA unless the driver somehow changed when I was putting it back together. I guess I can always rip it apart again and retest. The switch is kind of funky anyway.
 
PHR's are capable of more? Is the information in the Diode Compilation thread wrong?

Common designation: PHR

Manufacturer rated output power: 60mW
Manufacturer rated operating voltage:
Manufacturer rated operating current:

Safe operating current: 90mA
Enthusiast operating current: 110mA
Maximum operating current: 120mA
 
Well, I meant PHR's are certainly capable of a lot more than 50mW. Probably 80-90. I guess I could torture one tomorrow and find out.
 
One could get around 110mW with a G-1 glass... but why waste $50 on a PHR. :yh:
 
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