My DIY red beam pics!

[Things]

Hi all, i think this is my 5th diode, and i have one sitting up here just incase this one decides to go, its running at 200ma @ 2.74V, burns like crazy,and can cut electrical tape from like 2 meters! These pics were taken with NO FOG whatsoever, hasn't been edited apart from shrinking, and are really crap quality! anyways once i get a better camera, i will get some better beamshots. I don't have in munted in a box or anything yet, although i will get to that very soon, since it was shorting that killed my last diode.

EDIT:changed ma/voltage

 

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the beam isn't as thick as it looks, that is just some slight camera shake

 

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well thats it for now, more to come later, going to sleep now

 

[Kenom]

lookin nice things. Great job.

 

[Things]

Thanks Kenom! I will post more this afternoon, got school today, but i get tommorow off! yay! i actually got it to burn WHITE paper!!

 

[Da_Dude]

Thanks Kenom! I will post more this afternoon, got school today, but i get tommorow off! yay! i actually got it to burn WHITE paper!!

After seeing that, I just had to try it with mine....
It WORKED! A little...

 

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well it doesn't burn it very well, although it makes a little bit of smoke, and a little black burn mark. I have it in a box now(WAY to big for the laser itself, but they didn't have one exactly the right size) but it still works, and i even out a little battery holder in there to make it portable, and it charges the batteries when i run it off a mains adapter. The batts i have in t ATM are crap, and last for about 3 seconds on their own, but i think i will get some better ones tommorow. The output power seems t have dropped slightly, but that would just be the batteries charging.

 

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:-[ :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[ well, i have to say something, I just re measured the current from this diode, and it is drawing exactly 200ma, at 2.74V. Sorry for the mix up, where the hell did 120ma come from??

 

[Gazoo]

Well at least you have a working diode again... ;D It should burn pretty good running with 200ma's.

 

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well i couldn't stand starin at a diode not in use, so i put it in a little box with some batteries, ressitor cap etc, and i get 200ma out of that one to! Its ALOT smaller than the bigger one i made. I will get some pics of em soon

 

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ok well here si some pics of the DIY red's i made. This photo is of both of them. The grey one was the one i made first, and the black one i made today. Sorry for the large size, i have no way of shrinking them ATM, on a diff computer The big hle in the top is where the key switch is going to go.

 

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thie front.

 

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The grey one has a internal battery pack, and can be run from an adaptor, and the adaptor charges the batteries too. The black one is just powered from 2AA's.

 

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the internals. The grey one is a drier from a spyro, thus the motos and eerthing else, and the black is just a resistor and cap. They both, amazingly enough, are drawng 200ma.

 

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the black internals. And thats it for now