Buttering up on the German ebay site
Yeah after Han's pays for the shipping on one of those and it ends up being ein Stück Scheiße he may come over hear and pay him a visit and I do not think all his dazer toys are going to help him. LOL:D
1500 mw with Dr. Lava Driver
There IS a way to use a Dr. Lava Microboost Driver to achieve 1,500mw TRUE output. Current draw from the battery will be on the order of 1600 to 1700 mA. All you have to do is change the inductor and one SMT resistor. You also have to provide heat sinking to the pill - you can use Arctic Silver and a small strip of copper to thermally "connect" the surface of the regulator chip to the pill. Dr Lava also failed to solder the heat sink on the bottom of the regulator chip to a copper "land" on the board as the manufacturer recommends, but at the power level the board was originally designed for, the extra heat sink wasn't necessary.... and there was no reason to go through the added trouble of using solder paste and a heat gun - which is the ONLY way to solder UNDERNEATH an SMT chip (between the chip and the board). This info was not originally posted on the eBay Web site due to an editing error. If you bought the diode from Awesome Lasers, you got the info on how to do it. How that ad ended up on German eBay is beyond me - WE sure didn't post it there. AND BTW - those were NOT the XJA-130 diodes that Wicked Lasers uses in their Arctics - these are NCH diodes that are WAY more efficient, and run cooler. We've driven them to 2,000mA for many DAYS continuously (off a regulated Power Supply and with adequate heat-sinking) and they've passed with flying colors. Pill temperatures reached 140 degrees F, and they ran as long as we had power on. These diodes are not available in the US - we get them on strips (that were originally part of a spool magazine for some sort of robot assembly line) from a source I am not at liberty to reveal.