Hey Buffo, glad to see you picked up a few of the diodes. I have two of them in pointers I made. I am driving them with the drivers out of green pointers. You can sometimes pick them up cheap when some people try to mod there pointers and fry the diodes. They work great. I just used my laser check to check out put and trimmed the pot until I got 90 mw output. I believe it was pulling around 400 ma. When you get the diode you will see that it has a feed back circuit using a beam splitter to check output. I find that the drivers I am using without feedback are still pretty stable.
I also got the package you sent me thanks !!
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