It lives!

[rszemeti]

After a lot of messing about, I finally got the laserscope fire up

I had agreed a deal to sell it, but the guy didn't show up

I had one last go at aligning the output sensors and it lives!

Going to have to build an output collimator for it now, as it has non-planar optics ... should be able to use the orignal sliding focus thingy as part of the collimator adjustment.

Did machine up a mount for a standard Melles Griot 30x beam expander, but the input aperture is way too small .. did get a 5mm dot at 20m though, just not very bright. Anyway, on to the Thorlabs site to order up some lenses ...

[Meatball]

Cool. Do you have any photos of your setup?

[rszemeti]

Yeah, but can't be bothered to post them until I have it doing someting really kewl.

It is pretty good in 80W pulse mode, bright even with OD 5+ goggles