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You see a quick green dot from a cold start then it quickly turns orange/yellow and appears to hold steady quite well, I tested it some more and got 15mw after running it for a while and as much as 22mw from a warm start, I still haven't adjusted the pot and likely won't as this one works well as received, that said I am spoiled on high output lasers and want more. 
I bypassed the momentary switch and omitted the spring, I don't like my battery pressing against the driver even though the pump diode was well soldered to the board, so I put the module in a housing I bought from Lifetime17 a while back.
Something of interest is the threads around the output of the module are the same as the inner threads of those little holo caps you get with red pointers, so I removed the glass from one and am using it as a dust cap to keep the lens clean, the beam is tight enough at the output that the cap didn't need to be drilled out any at all.
I bypassed the momentary switch and omitted the spring, I don't like my battery pressing against the driver even though the pump diode was well soldered to the board, so I put the module in a housing I bought from Lifetime17 a while back.
Something of interest is the threads around the output of the module are the same as the inner threads of those little holo caps you get with red pointers, so I removed the glass from one and am using it as a dust cap to keep the lens clean, the beam is tight enough at the output that the cap didn't need to be drilled out any at all.
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I'll post some more pictures later, but here are a few that I took today. Mine also does that thing where it starts off lasing green and then suddenly switches over to yellow. Was taking these pictures in my basement and it's pretty cool down here, so this could be why, by mine sometimes takes as long as 20 seconds before it hops to 593.5. Once it goes to yellow though it seems pretty stable.
