Hi
This was a lot of fun to build and surprisingly very easy to align due to the brass
Mounts I made from a brass bar, very similar design to the opt lasers module mounts,
I tightened up my mounts straight and then UV glued the dicros while watching the beams on a wall 5 metres away to within a few inches, then all was left is apply a little pressure with a flathead in X or Y direction and bingo one beam.
I might need a little adjustment of the Flexdrive pots to get a pure white beam, it looks a tiny bit violet as is, I used all 5.6mm single mode diodes.
PLT5 450B 120mw
PL520 50mw
ML520 G55 180mw
All 3 Flexdrives were set at the 100-400ma range so I have a good amount of room for adjustment.
I LPMed the module at over 300mw but my LPM isn't the best for low power metering.
Glad I built the top aluminium cover as it gets nice and warm after a few minutes, it's very small and would very possibly go into a custom host later,
A lot of work but this can be done very cheap, $100 for diodes, $100 for Flexdrives and $40 for dicroic mirrors and a lot of work on the mill.
Now I can get to work on my custom 589 build, I'll let the pics do the rest,
Thanks for checking this out,
Pic heavy!
https://youtu.be/S9Nqp_kDEq4
https://youtu.be/uogZuVRo7-c
https://youtu.be/b5uv69KOsGU
https://youtu.be/nqql5o66EIY
This was a lot of fun to build and surprisingly very easy to align due to the brass
Mounts I made from a brass bar, very similar design to the opt lasers module mounts,
I tightened up my mounts straight and then UV glued the dicros while watching the beams on a wall 5 metres away to within a few inches, then all was left is apply a little pressure with a flathead in X or Y direction and bingo one beam.
I might need a little adjustment of the Flexdrive pots to get a pure white beam, it looks a tiny bit violet as is, I used all 5.6mm single mode diodes.
PLT5 450B 120mw
PL520 50mw
ML520 G55 180mw
All 3 Flexdrives were set at the 100-400ma range so I have a good amount of room for adjustment.
I LPMed the module at over 300mw but my LPM isn't the best for low power metering.
Glad I built the top aluminium cover as it gets nice and warm after a few minutes, it's very small and would very possibly go into a custom host later,
A lot of work but this can be done very cheap, $100 for diodes, $100 for Flexdrives and $40 for dicroic mirrors and a lot of work on the mill.
Now I can get to work on my custom 589 build, I'll let the pics do the rest,
Thanks for checking this out,
Pic heavy!
https://youtu.be/S9Nqp_kDEq4
https://youtu.be/uogZuVRo7-c
https://youtu.be/b5uv69KOsGU
https://youtu.be/nqql5o66EIY