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ok, i found this from http://www.phalkin.com/sbk/lasers_index.htm
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Now, the serious things. I have read on the forum, that a guy have shorted the center of the pot with the case (the case is the positive pole of the circuit), and obtain 150mW with 500mA ! So I have tryed to short the pot, not directly for beginning, but with a resistor of 5k. I don't see any increase of the brightness, so I tryed with successive values of smaller resistors. I remark that smaller the resistor was, bigger was the brighness of the dot. So I decided to directly connect the pot and the case, just 2-3 pulses for watching what it happens. And it happens that the dot has a big punch of power each time I shorted the pot! WOW! And it's the same if I short the pot for longer time, like 20 seconds.
With pot shorted I measure about 310uA for 10 seconds constant with the LED test, it means 110mW !! You can't look the dot on a white wall at 2 meters for more than 1 second because the green light dazzle you too much!
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basically what he did was connect the pot with the case, making a short circuit. . . and get 110mW output power :shock: :shock:
anyone tried this before ??
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Now, the serious things. I have read on the forum, that a guy have shorted the center of the pot with the case (the case is the positive pole of the circuit), and obtain 150mW with 500mA ! So I have tryed to short the pot, not directly for beginning, but with a resistor of 5k. I don't see any increase of the brightness, so I tryed with successive values of smaller resistors. I remark that smaller the resistor was, bigger was the brighness of the dot. So I decided to directly connect the pot and the case, just 2-3 pulses for watching what it happens. And it happens that the dot has a big punch of power each time I shorted the pot! WOW! And it's the same if I short the pot for longer time, like 20 seconds.
With pot shorted I measure about 310uA for 10 seconds constant with the LED test, it means 110mW !! You can't look the dot on a white wall at 2 meters for more than 1 second because the green light dazzle you too much!
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basically what he did was connect the pot with the case, making a short circuit. . . and get 110mW output power :shock: :shock:
anyone tried this before ??