So mine arrived, after I chased it down the street to a post office in the next suburb coz frigging australia post cant deliver. They suck.
More bad news: My Sigelei box mod wont fire it. Nor will the Zmax V5 unless it is in mobile phone mode. I'm not even game to try that until my saftey goggles arrive. I only have one working eye (not due to a laser mishap thank god), so I guard its vision with my life. I'm not going to fire the laser at close to full power with out some means of quickly shutting it off, or laser eyewear.
I did really want to try out this module for shits and giggles on my new vaporizer, but its really destined for my projector. Would have just been fun to have some giggles burning stuff with it before it goes in its new home.
DTR this thing looks smick. Can i just hook the 510 connector up to my variable power supply, and just increase the volts from around 3.8 so I can at least see a lower powered beam to check it works? I have the NDG700 with the 1.8A X-Drive.
quick shot (sadly without any photons!)
Edit: tested it on my variable power supply set to 6.0 volts and 500ma current limit so I didnt get blinded. I got a weak beam which proved the laser worked. Got courageous and wound the current up to 700ma. At this point it started smoking the memory module packet it was aimed at (nice black colour), so I switched it off, as next object in the line of fire was a white cardboard box. Then luckily enough i found my old wicked lasers safety goggles, so I chucked them on, put it on my Zmax V5, turned on the mobile phone mode, and it instantly started smoking a CD case. Burn't right through it in under a second. Impressed
The focus ring has a small scratch on it, but I will buff that out later. Probably due to Aus Posts incompetence. (or my over eagerness with the exacto blade getting this wonderful module free of DTR's great packaging). All I need now is some trustworth saftey glasses and I'll be set. Even in a projector this thing is going to be seriously evil.
DTR I know this sounds cruel, but how do you get this thing open? I'll need to replace the X-Drive with a FMP3 when I finally switch to using it as the green source in my PJ (for modulation of course). Actually forget this idea - I can run the flexmod in series, thus giving me an easy to change "bulb" inside the projector - using 520, 462 and 638nm versions of these, if one should pop, its a simple matter of unscrewing it, and screwing in a new one
edit 2: just realised we have metal vapor lasers. Now who here had the CVL model?