Sucessful built a red laser with my dead 405nm host and driver

[alessnilsen]

Hi! Here you can find what happened with my 405nm laser.

After some time collecting the parts, I finally was abble to assembly a 650nm laser within this host and driver!

I don't know the current of the driver, but I put a LOC on it and is very powerfull.

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Here you can see the housing, originally it was made for 3.3mm LD, so I drilled a new 5.6mm hole into it.

Here, the LD press fitted in the place, It's a long open can LD.

And the housing + driver assembled. See a enameled wire, that's the '+' of the driver, since the driver is case positive and the LD is case negative, it's needed to isolate one from another.

Here the empty host, is a standard "(SD)Laser 303".

And now, the host assembled and working!

Since I got the lens from a 1mW red key chan, it's a terrible lens, so here is the "dot":

And, unfocused:

Melting insulation tape:

A beam shot:

And the laser besides with my 250mW red:

The worst thing was lock the module insyde the host, with the switch perfectly alligned!

Thanks! :thanks:

 

[vortish]

nice re-purposing of the 303 not a terrible build in my eyes +1:gj::kewlpics::anyone:

 

[sinner]

Congratulations on your build, The red beams are awesome. +1
Do you wear protective glasses?

 

[cheech226]

nice conversion!

 

[alessnilsen]

Thanks! :yh:

sinner: I don't have any protection glasses for lasers, so, I'm very carefull when using it because I know my eyes are priceless!
I love the red beams too! Here are some beamshots:

cheech226 and vortish: Thank you! :beer: