Hi guys
I had 2 small stainless hosts, I decided to add the tube from one and make a longer pen build,
The host was very dull so I polished it up piece by piece and now looks nice.
I started off intending to use a 9mm diode so I had a spare copper Extended and Tapered Heat Sink from survival laser, so I chucked it on my drill press and slowly worked it down with a file and sandpaper untill it was perfect tight fit for the head of my host.
The reason for the extension tube was so I could use 2 14500 bats but I then decided to use the PLP520-B1 attached to 480ma boost driver in module from Jordan.
All that was left to do is attach a contact board to an aluminium sleeve for the battery contact and solder the wires.
I've run out of 2 element lens for 520 so with a G2 there is artifacts around the dot as you can see in the beam pics but the spot at 6 meters is as small as a single mode diode, impressive I might throw an acrilc lens in later.
So my LPM shows 210mw and is very stable, this diode gets warm quick so it's great that I used copper for a sink.
I had 2 small stainless hosts, I decided to add the tube from one and make a longer pen build,
The host was very dull so I polished it up piece by piece and now looks nice.
I started off intending to use a 9mm diode so I had a spare copper Extended and Tapered Heat Sink from survival laser, so I chucked it on my drill press and slowly worked it down with a file and sandpaper untill it was perfect tight fit for the head of my host.
The reason for the extension tube was so I could use 2 14500 bats but I then decided to use the PLP520-B1 attached to 480ma boost driver in module from Jordan.
All that was left to do is attach a contact board to an aluminium sleeve for the battery contact and solder the wires.
I've run out of 2 element lens for 520 so with a G2 there is artifacts around the dot as you can see in the beam pics but the spot at 6 meters is as small as a single mode diode, impressive I might throw an acrilc lens in later.
So my LPM shows 210mw and is very stable, this diode gets warm quick so it's great that I used copper for a sink.