I've had a couple of all brass lasers that I purchased from Trussmonkey about a year or so ago that I believe originally had 3W 9mm in them that were blown. Took a long time to decide what to do with them as they had 9mm size press in sinks and I didn't want them to just be another 445nm. I had build a few M462 builds already and had not realized that the other 462nm diode was 9mm (NDB7775) so when I noticed it I finally had something more speciAL than a 445nm and that would be OK with only brass as a heatsink.
The way the hosts are put together there is a 9mm hole in a brass heatsink that press fits into the heavy host and the large driver has an extreme amount of some kind of grey apoxy all over it to hold t to the heatsink as there is a large spring on the end of it for the battery to push against.
The drivers worked after removal of all that stuff but their setting was too high so I bought new sxd drivers and attached them to the old drivers that I had removed all of the components from so I could use them in the same manner.
1.8A sxd driver outputs 1.8W
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Components removed and prepped for new drivers
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Cut a hole through them so the large heatsink would fit right
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Diodes pressed and wired
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What this doesn't show is the Arctic alumina bonding the driver to the heatsink
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The module assembly presses really tight into the host
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Pressed in
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Looking down inside the host to the spring end of the module
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Don't have a picture of it but the lens screws into the front piece and then the front piece is adjustable for focusing
1.8A 1.8W
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They are very shiny nice looking and I should have cleaned them off better before taking the pics. I think I need to measure the weight. There's something about weight and that feeling of substantial that ups the quality.
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They are really heavy solid brass plus the addition of running off of (2) 18650 each.
You can see a Kryton groove in red to show the relative size of how long they are
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I haven't taken any beam shots yet but I'll add them later. I won't be home until this afternoon.
OK, notice the all copper M462nm. That was the one (M462) that I used to have an outside coupling in the middle and now changed it over for a nice smooth look
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2 A140 builds that I did that I haven't shown. Notice anything interesting about that longer A140 build Jeff? Kind of reminds me of a cheapo 3 pack of lights I got from someone;) Feel so light in weight in comparis on but they look slick too.
The smaller one has a boost for a single 14500 and is 1.8W while the larger has a blitzlinear driver at 1W off 2 14500.
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See how the 2 A140 look different
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Now look at the colors this way
1.8W 462nm, 1.8W A140, 1W A140, 1.8W 462nm
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Look at the colors with the 2 462nm on the right end
1.8W A140, 1W A140, 1.8W 462nm, 1.8W 462nm
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The way the hosts are put together there is a 9mm hole in a brass heatsink that press fits into the heavy host and the large driver has an extreme amount of some kind of grey apoxy all over it to hold t to the heatsink as there is a large spring on the end of it for the battery to push against.
The drivers worked after removal of all that stuff but their setting was too high so I bought new sxd drivers and attached them to the old drivers that I had removed all of the components from so I could use them in the same manner.
1.8A sxd driver outputs 1.8W
Components removed and prepped for new drivers
Cut a hole through them so the large heatsink would fit right
Diodes pressed and wired
What this doesn't show is the Arctic alumina bonding the driver to the heatsink
The module assembly presses really tight into the host
Pressed in
Looking down inside the host to the spring end of the module
Don't have a picture of it but the lens screws into the front piece and then the front piece is adjustable for focusing
1.8A 1.8W
They are very shiny nice looking and I should have cleaned them off better before taking the pics. I think I need to measure the weight. There's something about weight and that feeling of substantial that ups the quality.
They are really heavy solid brass plus the addition of running off of (2) 18650 each.
You can see a Kryton groove in red to show the relative size of how long they are
I haven't taken any beam shots yet but I'll add them later. I won't be home until this afternoon.
OK, notice the all copper M462nm. That was the one (M462) that I used to have an outside coupling in the middle and now changed it over for a nice smooth look
2 A140 builds that I did that I haven't shown. Notice anything interesting about that longer A140 build Jeff? Kind of reminds me of a cheapo 3 pack of lights I got from someone;) Feel so light in weight in comparis on but they look slick too.
The smaller one has a boost for a single 14500 and is 1.8W while the larger has a blitzlinear driver at 1W off 2 14500.
See how the 2 A140 look different
Now look at the colors this way
1.8W 462nm, 1.8W A140, 1W A140, 1.8W 462nm
Look at the colors with the 2 462nm on the right end
1.8W A140, 1W A140, 1.8W 462nm, 1.8W 462nm