Guidesman Build

[Kookapeli]

This is just a review of Euda's Guidesman heatsinks

I think at the moment he only does the heatsinks and you have to source the host yourself from the link on one of his threads.

I was showing one of my collegues my pocket mini and my 405 in another Guidesman host (That was made by Moh) and he loved them and asked me to make him one so here it is


First of all I'm using a SOC diode and set the driver to ~250mA


I did try to solder the driver to the diode, but unfortunately it was a little too long so I had to do a work around as follows.

I soldered the leads to the diode pins as normal


then I soldered the wires to the striped contact board


then the diode output of the driver is connected to the pill on the other side


the negative contact is made through the host and as the driver -ve terminals are connected there was no need o solder the -ve input from the battery.



Then I soldered the +ve input from the driver to the host + contact

I put a little electrical tape on the driver to stop any shorts, it shouldn't heat up too much as i'm not powering it up that much


All in all, the heatsink is quite big and will be big enough for any build and is well made:gj:

 

[Haloid95]

Nice work and Nice review. +1. I like the red host and matching wavelength

 

[Kookapeli]

Thanks I like the red with the host too, just wish there were more choice of colours, it's only red or grey, well the ones that I can find anyway

 

[jimdt7]

Very nice review but no beamshots

Jim

 

[Kookapeli]

yeah, I forgot to do one I've sold it on so can't get one now, but I made it to the same spec as the one in my Avatar pic