Reverse Pot Modding

[laserpyro]

I was wandering seeing as i live in australia and lasers <1mW law. I was wandering if say i bought a strong laser got one of you guys to weaken it would this work?

 

[phoenix77]

It might. You'll also have to remove any mW out-put labels.................rob

 

[laserpyro]

anyone whos got a testers who's willing?

 

[BrewCityMusic]

The only drawback I see is that turning down a high-powered laser too far will cause it to drop below "threshold" (the point where it actually produces light) - I have routinely turned down bigger modules (120mW+) to help them run with more stability but generally they stop lasing entirely if you get down to 20-30mW or below.

You MIGHT be able to turn a 30mW to under 1mW, but even then the setting can be "jumpy" and you risk your custome firing it up and it reads a quick 3-4mW before settling to >1mW which may cause them to disallow it.

Does Australia allow components to be imported? If so, buy a module from O-like and either a Jayrob kit or one of Mohrenbergs hosts and assemble it yourself (under 5 min, no special skills required) - just a thought.

 

[charliebruce]

You could run it through a sem-transparent filter (after pot-modding), to get the required brightness - or something like a translucent DX tailcap on the module.

 

[Benm]

Why not just modify it so that it doesn't work at all anymore? I doubt it would be legal to import a 0.5mW laser, but not a bunch of similar components with no apparent function.

Perhaps this sounds far fetched, but a similar approach was used here to sell fm radio transmitters. As long as they didnt work, the were not banned for resale. Restoring it to functional state can involve just soldering one component back in.

 

[Cainorox]

hey dude, i live in vic, melbourne.

i got a o-like module from susie, its INSANE. only 30mW and u can see it from flinders street station to the mcg with ease LOL.

you should buy one dude

 

[laserpyro]

ok Cainorox i might just do that. thanks for your help, gotta pay for my smoke machine first

 

[samsomiler]

Is there anyway aust. will let you import laser parts, like drivers and diodes and such...

 

[millirad]

Susie has you covered then. ;-)

 

[laserpyro]

Susie has you covered then. ;-)

pretty much ill put in a order soon order ordered a few modules 5mW from another supplier just to test. Seeing as aussie customs only allow <1mW so we all good