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My Osram PL-515 with a Lazeerer Super Miniar Driver has seemed to diminish in brightness. I've thought this for a while. It used to be much brighter. I had Pman LPM the diode for me at 5mw and he provided the recommended output. I had the driver built for that mA. It appears that when you press the momentary button it puts out the full 5mw and soon fluctuates to a lower power. I don't have an LPM to see what it is actually doing. It may in fact be giving more than 5mw and comming down to 5mw. (I highly doubt that as it used to have a faint beam outside on any given night, but now only in certain conditions or inside in pitch black).
I feel like maybe a capacitor is bad.
The batteries at still at more than 90%, it does it at 100% power as well.
Is the driver damaged? Is this normal? How can I fix it? I wouldn't mind if it was exactly the opposite with it ramping up, but NOT ramping down... that just doesn't make sense.
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FYI my palm was covering any reflection.
I feel like maybe a capacitor is bad.
The batteries at still at more than 90%, it does it at 100% power as well.
Is the driver damaged? Is this normal? How can I fix it? I wouldn't mind if it was exactly the opposite with it ramping up, but NOT ramping down... that just doesn't make sense.
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FYI my palm was covering any reflection.
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