This first post here is mostly irrelevant now, please see my newer post below #4, just didn't want to start a new thread for the same diode. And the picture was hosted on a personal server whose static IP has changed and I'm too lazy to update the DNS records right now. In fact the picture would probably just distract from my new question. . . . Can an open can M140 survive?
Below is the original from months ago.
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This is a shot of just the diodes output without a lens.
Formally it was a nice rectangular shaped fairly evenly disturbed light in slight bands, as on out the outside. Now it's just a blob mess in the middle.
Putting the lens on and the best it will focus to is a blob dot of about a couple inches with a bright spot in the middle.
Thanks
~Akeyla
Below is the original from months ago.
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This is a shot of just the diodes output without a lens.
Formally it was a nice rectangular shaped fairly evenly disturbed light in slight bands, as on out the outside. Now it's just a blob mess in the middle.
Putting the lens on and the best it will focus to is a blob dot of about a couple inches with a bright spot in the middle.
Thanks
~Akeyla
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