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A few years back I purchased a beautiful 1.3w 405nm laser from SciFi Lasers (Eitan). Long story short, I let a friend borrow it for a lab and he put the batteries in backwards.

Needless to say, the laser no longer works - and it appears SciFi Lasers has since shut its doors. I'm assuming it's just the driver that's blown, but I can't be sure.

Honestly I'm not too certain of the details outside of it being a 1.3w 405nm in a custom (largish, metallic) host that takes two 18650 batteries (can provide pictures if requested). Would anyone be interested in taking a look and seeing what they can do with it? If so, please let me know your charge.

Thank you and regards,
-Lurkios
 
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The driver is probably fried. Any experienced builder here can likely fix it for you.
 

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Did he actually tell you that was 1.3W 405nm? No way is that accurate. It is likely between 700-100mW which is still a lot of 405nm;)
 
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i can take a look at it.

Do you have an experience with repairs? Have you built anything of your own? Would you kindly show some of your work? Seems a bit suspicious that up until a day ago, all of the items in your signature were "dead".

Incidentally, since when are plasma cutters rated in milliwatts?
 
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Did he actually tell you that was 1.3W 405nm? No way is that accurate. It is likely between 700-100mW which is still a lot of 405nm;)

He did, and included a printout from an lpm as well. I don't have any way to verify it myself, currently. (Especially not seeing as it's broken.)

This is assuming I'm not somehow remembering completely wrong. I've since deleted the mails.
 
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Do you have an experience with repairs? Have you built anything of your own? Would you kindly show some of your work? Seems a bit suspicious that up until a day ago, all of the items in your signature were "dead".

Incidentally, since when are plasma cutters rated in milliwatts?

Yes.

i'll post a build thread.
 
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Can't say enough... Pman from this forum went out of his way. Took my non-working scifi laser and sent me back 3.3 watt cannon!

Hooked me up on the repair on the cheap and did a GREAT job!


Thank you Thank you Thank you

-=Fred=-
 




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