Question about adding wires to module

[Valo]

Hi I just have a quick question. I have 2 of these modules from techhood I bought a while back. How would I go about wiring a positive and negative lead to it? Thanks!

 

[Skittles]

Looks like you can just throw it in a host, put a 16340 battery and good to go? What are you planning to wire it for?

 

[Valo]

I'm 3d printing my own host but using a AAA battery pack to power it. Partly because I'm cheap and don't want to buy more stuff for it lol

 

[Skittles]

I'm 3d printing my own host but using a AAA battery pack to power it. Partly because I'm cheap and don't want to buy more stuff for it lol

You can connect positive wire to the spring and ground to the side of the module body, just be careful not to short circuit it, I still think a rechargeable battery like 16340 or 18650 will work much better than a bunch of AAA in series, but you can try.
And make sure you know the right polarity

 

[Valo]

I'm going to use just a single 10440 just wanted it to be as small as possible. Other wise I would of used 18650s. Here's a photo of a 638nm version I'm putting together. This one is 20mm x 20mm x 105mm. Still gotta finish gluing the case together.

I got 405nm, 488nm, 520nm, 532nm, 555nm, 2x 561nm one of them being PMW, 591nm, 638nm, and 660nm. Also got a 570nm from the first batch from Lasence but I gotta change up the size of my print. Its power has def dimmed down went from 35mw to roughly 5mw.

 

[Encap]

be careful---he 3D printed host is a bad idea---it has almost no thermal conductivity and is probably a better insulator than a conductor of heat contributing to thermal problems. Those modules will suffer from thermal runaway quickly and grow dimmer and dimmer then be burned out and go LED and not lase at all.

Ge a decent host that you can change the modules in quickly.

 

[Valo]

I don't plan on using them longer than 30 sec at a time. If I was I'd buy some cheapy heatsinks off ebay then just size the print to fit them or even get someone to mill a few 20mm heatsinks. They also been sitting in my drawer for years so at least they are finally getting a bit of use.

 

[paul1598419]

If this is a 532 nm module the case is positive. I usually wire it by putting postive to the case pin on the diode and negative at a resistor close by.

 

[Valo]

Thanks yall for the help. Just finished the first one 591nm at 30mw. This one is 20mm x 20mm x 127mm. Now I got 8 more to go to put together.