Recent content by gn0stik

K, I suppose someone should wade in here as the safety nazi. Wear those great big mamma sized cleaning rubber gloves, and use some plastic tongs, and goggles, when you get to the etching stage. A white smock really completes the look.... and saves your clothes. Toner transfer is cheap, even...

And the resized trace mask (no ability to double attach in yabb?)

OK, Someone asked me to create a component mask, and leave it large, because text was difficult. I also made larger contacts for the mounting holes. So this one has to be resized, about 65% seems to be optimum. Photoshop works best. So here's the updated one, Trace and component. the component...

Wow, that is cheap. Does it need to be agitated as much as the rat shack kits? If you don't have an agitator of some kind that can be a drawback. Lightly agitating a bin of acid for 20 minutes is a bit dangerous. How long does it take by the way, in your experience. I know muriatic is not quite...

Actually, now it's unreadable. I would actually appreciate a larger version.

This sounds to me more like a  problem with your driver. Did u test it before you started? Turning the pot etc to make sure it dims. Then there's the test procedures posted above which are crucial. This tells you if the driver is responding to load correctly, and delivers the correct voltage and...

Here it is!!! http://www.instructables.com/id/Home-Made-Collimator/ Thanks man! Finding a metal mechanical pencil with similar construction would be ideal. I have lots of lenses.

Well, Here's my contribution to the cause. I don't know if anyone has done this yet, but I searched around, and did not see any trace masks made up. The only pcb related stuff I could find was the group buy. So I went ahead and created a black and white trace mask for the ddl circuit, for...

Re: GB initiated: DDL driver "plug n' play boards" I'll buy some when you get a google checkout setup for it. :) Also, I'd kinda just like a black and white etching template, I've wanted to try etching my own boards for a while now. I have a kit, I just need the transparency paper to print it...

If these are anything like the greens, they will be poorly built, but still worth the cost. The greens have a number of different driver boards used in them, and shoddy careless manufacturing. Many of the greens mode hop, due to faulty crystals, or are even DOA in at least one case. However the...

Wow that's brilliant!!, I'll have to look around for one the right size. Thanks man!!

Photon Pharmer, Is this actually a simple plug and play solution? Complete with driver, housing etc? Just insert your own diodes? Or did you have to make your own driver circuit and attach to this? Quite cool. Little more info would be useful tho. :) Rich... PS, I started my own thread...

Anyone know a good replacement for a module housing? I know it's ridiculous, but for time sensitive reasons, I need something fairly quick that either fits, or I can do some minor drilling to to make fit a stonetek/aixiz 16x dvd burner diode. Problem with mine is that the part of my housing that...

Re: help with new diodes. Ok, I figured it out.. The pinout seems to be similar across different brands, or at least mostly so. Here's the deal. When you find one with two pins soldered together, the side with the two soldered together is the photo/ground side. The side that is by itself is...

I have two new LDs that came with a panasonic dl dvd player. Thing is, both of them have two of the pins soldered together. I've seen this once before. but the LD ended up not being used as it was from a cdr and not a dvdr. Now I have these diodes, and don't know which side is pos, and which is...