New high power 405nm diode?

[TheMonk]

So have you received them Igor... lets hear the news my man.

I would purely be just inquisitive in the nature of my question. I'm trying to get a meter next. Just have to find a way to keep that one from the Mrs.

I already put the 150mW to the test, LEDed at 300mA:banghead:
http://laserpointerforums.com/f38/150mw-cw-nichia-diode-lsp-41536.html

 

[iskor12]

I do remember one guy bought one and set to 185ma's... It died after only 45min. apparently. Heres the thread --> http://laserpointerforums.com/laser...showthread.php?t=37889&highlight=Nichia+diode
Its not exactly an official test but i thought that I'd put this here anyways.

--Hydro15

Yes that was me who bought on of those diodes and ran it in a pocket mini build @185mA. As for it's output? I would have to guess at around 200mW. I did keep the cycle times to less than 1min. I even used the Jayrob Blu-ray lense modd for this one.

Total run TIME: 45min @185mA Driver: Lava V4
When it died, it never lit back up again.
It was by far the best burning laser I had ever made. It lit a match from over 10FT away.
I wasn't ruff with the laser either.

(WOW my pictures looked like crap back then)

EDIT: OH yeah, there was one other thing that was bugging me about this diode. When I received this diode from O-Like it came in a sled that said SONY on it!!!!!!