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This build is made from a diode that Styro sent me since he forgot to send a couple things I purchased from him in his sales thread. He said the diode is a 90mW 520nm but other than that I don't know what exact diode it is. Upon testing it started to drop back in output around the 114mW mark so I set it for just over 100mW. 100mW of 520nm is plenty of output for that wavelength.
I also built another unit in that same Husky pen from Home Depot as it was the last LPC-826 I had. It outputs just over 400mW with the Eitan lens. Both of them have that same lens although the 520nm will be changed out for a 3-element or maybe a 2-element or Podo G7 as its a crappy line/dot. Beams look really nice though
The host is the one I mentioned here that I found at Home Depot and is still available for about $8.
Husky 60 Lumen LED Unbreakable Aluminum Pen Light with Clip 99396 at The Home Depot - Mobile
It's a really friendly to use host for either 1 or 2 10440 as it fits a standard module in the head with just enough room to isolate it if you are building a case negative or positive build.
Here's the flashlight and some taken apart pics. It was put together much better than most at this price. You need needle nose pliers to unscrew different sections:
Here's the 3 looks. It only comes in black and you can see the difference between having the slip on rubber front on and off and how the one I built as a 520nm looks after bead blasting that my very good friend Jeff (Bow) did for me. So sorry as some of the pics are a bit blurry. I've got to figure out what I'm doing wrong as this camera is actually pretty good (Canon S3 is)
The third one is a different one that I had Jeff also bead blast for me and I was going to use that for an NDB7242E but the diode arrived DOA
You can see all the parts though that you remove for the Husky. There are 3 separate times that you have to unscrew pieces instead of them just being pressed in. I actually bought 2 more of them because they have a lot of character to them and are built well. Of course Jeff was sent one along with some other things. Please don't go begging him to bead blast your stuff. You can ask but I don't think he wants to get into doing a lot of that stuff. We are very good friends and send each other things all the time.
I used an s-mini adjusted to about 350mA and checked the output to make sure it was just over 100mW with the driver before putting it all together. Have to cut down the the module back half so there's enough room for the host body to screw in all the way. If you do it right it all comes together great.
You end up with:
Here's some shots of putting together a case - 826 (660nm). The driver is from a Fasttech 532nm module that I set for over 600mA to to hit just over 400mW with the Eitan lens:
Cleaned off the paint from an area inside the host so I could grab the + from the battery:
What it looks like before putting it together. The diode is isolated nicely and everything fits really well together:
Finished. I like how it looks without that slide on rubber piece and the clip once it is labeled. I usually change the 826 to an acrylic lens but this one is going to keep the Eitan one as I would now be able to get the acrylic one screwed in close enough to the diode for infinite focus and be able to still use a focus ring unless I took out the lens in another one and glued it to the main one. There's almost always a way to make things work
. Can't stand that no one ever named the lenses that Eitan got:
Beamers:
Thanks for looking and if I've inspired anyone with any of my builds it was worth the effort.
I also built another unit in that same Husky pen from Home Depot as it was the last LPC-826 I had. It outputs just over 400mW with the Eitan lens. Both of them have that same lens although the 520nm will be changed out for a 3-element or maybe a 2-element or Podo G7 as its a crappy line/dot. Beams look really nice though
The host is the one I mentioned here that I found at Home Depot and is still available for about $8.
Husky 60 Lumen LED Unbreakable Aluminum Pen Light with Clip 99396 at The Home Depot - Mobile
It's a really friendly to use host for either 1 or 2 10440 as it fits a standard module in the head with just enough room to isolate it if you are building a case negative or positive build.
Here's the flashlight and some taken apart pics. It was put together much better than most at this price. You need needle nose pliers to unscrew different sections:
Here's the 3 looks. It only comes in black and you can see the difference between having the slip on rubber front on and off and how the one I built as a 520nm looks after bead blasting that my very good friend Jeff (Bow) did for me. So sorry as some of the pics are a bit blurry. I've got to figure out what I'm doing wrong as this camera is actually pretty good (Canon S3 is)
The third one is a different one that I had Jeff also bead blast for me and I was going to use that for an NDB7242E but the diode arrived DOA
You can see all the parts though that you remove for the Husky. There are 3 separate times that you have to unscrew pieces instead of them just being pressed in. I actually bought 2 more of them because they have a lot of character to them and are built well. Of course Jeff was sent one along with some other things. Please don't go begging him to bead blast your stuff. You can ask but I don't think he wants to get into doing a lot of that stuff. We are very good friends and send each other things all the time.
I used an s-mini adjusted to about 350mA and checked the output to make sure it was just over 100mW with the driver before putting it all together. Have to cut down the the module back half so there's enough room for the host body to screw in all the way. If you do it right it all comes together great.
You end up with:
Here's some shots of putting together a case - 826 (660nm). The driver is from a Fasttech 532nm module that I set for over 600mA to to hit just over 400mW with the Eitan lens:
Cleaned off the paint from an area inside the host so I could grab the + from the battery:
What it looks like before putting it together. The diode is isolated nicely and everything fits really well together:
Finished. I like how it looks without that slide on rubber piece and the clip once it is labeled. I usually change the 826 to an acrylic lens but this one is going to keep the Eitan one as I would now be able to get the acrylic one screwed in close enough to the diode for infinite focus and be able to still use a focus ring unless I took out the lens in another one and glued it to the main one. There's almost always a way to make things work
. Can't stand that no one ever named the lenses that Eitan got:
Beamers:
Thanks for looking and if I've inspired anyone with any of my builds it was worth the effort.
