Making my version of Endurance 10W+ Laser - Video 1 of 2

This is Video one of two explaining and showing how I took the parts from an Endurance 10W+ Laser and adapted them into my own design. I built my own laser heat sink and cooling module along with taking components from the standard Endurance controller and building them into my own enclosure. Also within this enclosure I incorporated a combined temperature display and switch to control the TEC Peltier Cooling module plus Digital Voltage and Current displays.
As a background to all this I went through multiple designs for dissipating heat from the hot side of the TEC device first using readily available CPU Heat Pipe coolers designed for computers. Though these showed some promise of working I found them to be very cumbersome to fit and a total overkill, just not required. Oh also the pad size of most CPU Coolers do not match the size required for a TEC. So I adopted a much simpler system of a conventional fin heat sink and fan. This proved to be more than adequate. Oh BTW the I use a TEC1-12706, that’s a 12VDC 6Amp device.
In the second video I cover how I fitted this all to my home built CNC router and show a quick test engrave.
Finally I would like to express my gratitude to Endurance Lasers for all their support, making this project possible. endurancelasers.com/

[@dickiewshort3587]

Very Nice Graham.....

[@oldestnerd]

Looks like a very good design. I look forward to part 2 of your video.

[@Robonza]

Top quality job on the set up and build. I like it. I have never seen peltier spelt or pronounced like that. Is this a new brand or something?

[@hamrx8]

Thank you for your comment.
Yes that's the correct way of spelling Peltier or at least Wikipedia spell it that way. It is explained as "A Peltier cooler, heater, or thermoelectric heat pump is a solid-state active heat pump which transfers heat from one side of the device to the other, with consumption of electrical energy, depending on the direction of the current."

[@deanrichards9541]

Nice job. Where did you get the new control box from?

[@hamrx8]

I made the control box myself. The significant component is an 8M BlackBuck Constant Current Laser Driver. I have tried a few Laser driver modules and the BlackBuck is by far the most efficient and performs superbly.
www.ebay.com.au/itm/BlackBuck-8M-r3-1-8A-Buck-Laser-LED-Constant-Current-Driver-NUBM44-NUBM08/324073450274?hash=item4b74486b22:g:OyYAAOSw3ndbEN9g&frcectupt=true