Lunch anyone. Build

[polishedball]

some before and afters. focus on the hot area as the rest is wall splash. After correction 575mw 638, 800mw 520 and as much as i want of blue currently 1.2W of 465

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[dkumpula]

That's a mighty sweet beam . . especially for lunch box!

-David

[clickamouse]

Yup, love the pinhole burning.

...Mike

[Lazerjock]

I WANT ONE!!!!!!!!!!!

[polishedball]

Finally Scored the proper lunch box for this build.
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[polishedball]

photo (6).JPG and the next build will be alot smaller

[kecked]

Mine fit in a 6" cube. Single mode with 506 scanners. Remember as the metal warms the diodes will drift when they are all together. I had thought a little worm gear for each axis but didn't do it.

[dkumpula]

Well, as long as we are showing off how small ours are . . .

I lack the tools to do my own mounts, but I just picked up a tiny RGB sled from OptLasers that I intend to combine with a set of X-Laser's Compact 506's.

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-David

<Edit> The last silly pic is so we don't forget how much this hobby drains our bank accounts.

[kecked]

Mine is about the same inside but the design had the diodes and the optics and the filters as a single unit. I didn't build it. I bought it from someone on here. Yours has the added benefit of much easier alignment. Nice job. The largest part of the whole thing is the driver for the scanners and the power supply. If you remove those to external the cube could be 2". Now we get to the point where the db25 is the limiting factor!

I forgot, is that something you can by as a module or did you build it up? I had thought of doing that twice and combining the output of the two single mode setups to get some more power. My issue was I used a 120mw green and just could not get enough red to balance or was it enough green I forget. By doubling up I can dial back the others and not loose the very nice brightness level I have for the living room. At those sizes you can go vertical and stack two and cube two like a quad but in rgb. Nightmare to align I get but tiny and quality and power.

Other thought was to go the other way and load in power and just make it for beams or have both inside and just flip a mirror to select what I want quality or power.

[clickamouse]

Dang, starting to make my lunchbox build look enormous:

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Gotta think smaller...

...Mike