Ok, I am set to recieve my FXLAB Pulse 2 laser (80mW red) today and I am thinking that when I am done messing with it in a few weeks, i will be wanting to modify its operation.
I was considering puting in one of those 150mW Blu-ray diodes that are available on ebay from Korea (or Blu-rry as the chaps at my local Richer Sounds call it) and run it straigh off the wires from the old diode.
Could I simply whip out the old 80mW red diode and drop in the new Blu-ray one? I know that it will take a bit of time to get the optics aligned, but I do like the pretty colour
Is this a bad idea?
I know that the diode I was looking at comes with a driver board. Is that so that the power going into the diode is electrically stable? (forgive my lack of understanding here, I'm not so electically in the know :-) But I can usually work things out when I want to.
Thanks,
James