JaiNobeZ
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tl;dr My laser stopped working after being dropped. I've tried repairing it by stuffing aluminium foil into everywhere where there might be a loose connection with no luck. Can anyone help?
Today my laser dropped out of my pocket and hit a hard floor, then didn't work anymore. It's a FocalPrice <50mW and it has broken before, but I fixed it by stretching the driver spring and putting in some aluminium foil on the positive end to effectively lengthen the batteries so they made better contact with the spring, then messing around with the external button because it wasn't making very good contact with the button on the driver.
I noticed something weird about it that i'd never noticed before and that is that the diode & driver seem to freely slip up and down in the head of the laser. It's pretty strange that i should have only noticed that after dropping it and it stopping working, and stranger still that it worked in that condition but i can't see how dropping it could change the shape of the head. I used aluminium foil to fill every gap i thought could possibly be a loose connection and it's still not working. Anyone got any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
Today my laser dropped out of my pocket and hit a hard floor, then didn't work anymore. It's a FocalPrice <50mW and it has broken before, but I fixed it by stretching the driver spring and putting in some aluminium foil on the positive end to effectively lengthen the batteries so they made better contact with the spring, then messing around with the external button because it wasn't making very good contact with the button on the driver.
I noticed something weird about it that i'd never noticed before and that is that the diode & driver seem to freely slip up and down in the head of the laser. It's pretty strange that i should have only noticed that after dropping it and it stopping working, and stranger still that it worked in that condition but i can't see how dropping it could change the shape of the head. I used aluminium foil to fill every gap i thought could possibly be a loose connection and it's still not working. Anyone got any ideas?
Thanks in advance.