Round 2: Success

[10fenny]

If you ever get some gitd sheets you can draw with it! But a lot of gitd materials are reflective so be carefull. I bring my 405 camping with some flash paper so I can start my fire 20 feet away!!

 

[Blarg King]

Oh yeah, I've played with GITD painted stuff with my safer ebay 405 pen. Its quite fun.

Actually I noticed that this new 405 is strong enough that I can actually "write" onto the phosphors of my old CRT TV I've got set up. My ebay pen wasn't strong enough to do that!

 

[Blarg King]

Adding heat sink compound beween the two might help, if the gap is very small and the layer of compound is extremely thin, if it is thick, it won't help much at all.

Yeah its quite a small gap, but the heatsink wasnt getting very warm when I was using it so Im concerned its not making good thermal contact with the module.

 

[Shotgundrums]

Excellent build!! Can you post a few more host+beem shots? I just built a 405nm/500mA into a C3. I’m strongly thinking of pulling the diode/module and putting it into a SL-C6 for sake of a larger heatsink. I’ll probably put a red diode in the C3.

SGD
1UP

 

[Richie89]

I got my 405 module from DTR in the mail today, and successfully got it installed in a 501b. Big thanks to Alaskan for loaning me a diode assembly and to DTR for the ease of getting all the arrangements squared away.

This time around insted of soldering the diode module wires to the wires from the host, I just removed the wires from the host and soldered the diode module wires right to the host connection. Was waaaay easier than messing with heat shrink and stuff.

Heres a photo of the first light

Ill do some proper beamshots soon. You guys are right, despite its power its not very bright, but it is nice to have a 405 with a beam I can see. Will definitely handle with care.

Plus Rep Blarg