Copper convertible M462 build

I have had a couple of small heavy copper hosts for some time and I finally got around to putting a build together. I can't remember who I purchased them from but I know it was here in the B/S/T section.

Here's the 2 hosts along with a few laser66/leadlights that I already build but haven't shown. Just waiting to finish 2 more before showing a whole bunch of them. I should have taken more pics of the copper build but I'll show what I did take:


There are a couple of small brass ends as focus knobs but they are not threaded so I widened the inside holes slightly to fit regular focus knobs and made them slightly deeper and then glued them in place:




There's a shelf down inside for the module to press fit to:


Pressed in the diode, soldered and secured the driver and heat-sinked it and then made the aluminum module piece lip thinner/wider:


Took a contact board from a small flashlight and trimmed it removing the components and then pressed it onto the end of the aluminum module piece after soldering the driver connections to the contact board:


Pressed the completed module inside the host and used some thermal grease although it was really tight anyways:


Was going to just build a low powered 462nm with one battery for over 100mW but then realized I could do both by adding a coupleing (very tight) so I can either run it low or at 2.2W with (2) 10440 and a spacer:


The tiny magnet on the - battery end as the button contact is flat:




It is perfectly straight. Just an illusion from the pic if it looks bent to your eyes.


I'll be adding some beam shots later this afternoon:)

Here is is with a single 10440:


Here's the output with a 3-element because I forgot to put a G2 back in before measuring otherwise it would probably be about 270mW:


Shining at a Uranium 1" marble it's too bright even at 208mW:




1.7+W with the 3-element agoin but it is over 2.2W and will actually spike just past 2.3W on start with a G2:


Very bright 1.7W:




About 25' to black wall: