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I screwed up what I wrote and edited it but apparently didn't hit the save button. It is now fixed.
The one unit is the same as other 405nm and the other is WAY darker NOT lighter.
The beam is difficult to see in dark with the darker one while the "normal" 405nm is pretty easy to see in complete darkness.
Excellent test results! It looks like
these diodes may not be binned at all and
cover a 20nm or greater range of wavelengths.
The uncoated acrylic lenses in these are
very fragile. I don't recommend trying to
clean them, even if there is dust or even
the window of the diode itself. Just leave
them alone. What I thought was dust was
actually lens barrel reflections and now I
have gone through 2 lenses. Just leave the
front piece on and don't mess with it.
Even though I was able to clean the piece
of crud off the window, I still got a
power loss even though the particles were
gone.
If you find yourself in this situation and
need a lens, they are 7mm diameter x 8mm
FL. They are all over the place on eBay.
Just press the old one out of the barrel
with a Q-tip, or a nail or punch if it is
really in there, press in the new one, and
refocus. The threads are glued, but it is
easily broken with a big screwdriver.
I may do a video on this process when I get
the new lenses in.