Hi all, I've been lurking here for quite some time and finally bought a non-diode kit from Survival Lasers and a M104 diode from DRT. Put it together and it worked great despite my sloppy soldering job (I'm new to soldering and wound up having to just electrical tape over the solder point).
Anyway, didn't really do anything more the first night other then kinda focus it, and go outside and shine it up in the air for a few seconds (after checking to make sure no air traffic was around of course). Next morning, screwed around with it and burnt through a used up gift card and some electrical tape. Only really used it for a couple minutes, still all good.
Then I put the batteries on the charger (which showed green, for some reason as if the batteries were already charged), and went to work. Got home, put the batteries back in and now the dot starts pretty bright but very quickly fades. Didn't know what was up with that, and nothing "seemed" wrong with anything from what I could see. I noticed that after attempting to use it after taking it off the charger today (once again let it charge all day), I measured the voltage on it at 3.6 or so (Something reasonable, I'm getting pretty tired now so hard time thinking), but then after throwing the batteries into the laser and turning it on after it dimmed I pulled them out and the voltage dropped on them to 2.5 volts.
I'm not an electrical engineer or anything so I'm not exactly sure "what' I should be looking for to fix it at this point. Any ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Daniel
Anyway, didn't really do anything more the first night other then kinda focus it, and go outside and shine it up in the air for a few seconds (after checking to make sure no air traffic was around of course). Next morning, screwed around with it and burnt through a used up gift card and some electrical tape. Only really used it for a couple minutes, still all good.
Then I put the batteries on the charger (which showed green, for some reason as if the batteries were already charged), and went to work. Got home, put the batteries back in and now the dot starts pretty bright but very quickly fades. Didn't know what was up with that, and nothing "seemed" wrong with anything from what I could see. I noticed that after attempting to use it after taking it off the charger today (once again let it charge all day), I measured the voltage on it at 3.6 or so (Something reasonable, I'm getting pretty tired now so hard time thinking), but then after throwing the batteries into the laser and turning it on after it dimmed I pulled them out and the voltage dropped on them to 2.5 volts.
I'm not an electrical engineer or anything so I'm not exactly sure "what' I should be looking for to fix it at this point. Any ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Daniel
