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Just how much are 108 trits going for these days?

Re: FS: Sanwu Laser store - R/G/B handhelds x3 BE & Stainless steel "The Spiker" rele Podo: Technical people love technical video. The promo videos were nice, but keep posting photos of materials, fabrication process, seating of optics, alignment and calibration. Things that are nifty and...

Request for lightsaber wand accessory for Pocket model. Request for some engraving options for Pocket model. Request for clarification on "Focusing Lens" options for Pocket model. ... Does this introduce a rotating segment at the end of the laser? Or is the laser the same length and...

Thanks for that insight. Doesn't Sharp do any binning of their own, though, like most LED mfgs? When you say a "blue at 488 or cyan at 492", I recall somebody else remark that 488 is closest to cyan, while 492 starts to pick up a tinge of green. Is that a fair assessment?

Sure it's not a matter of color shift due to driving it at higher voltage and current? Same diode just produces 488 @ 60mW and 492 @ 100mW? Or would they have a natural tendency lean towards one color or the other?

Alright, cool! And thanks for all the work and reserach you and jnrpop have put into this. I see you currently have about 4 or 5 price pigeonholes. I am half-tempted to compile a graph based on those 5 units alone just to see a general overview the hi-lo spikes and which parts of the hobby...

CurtisOliver: Would you consider doing something like a candlestick graph spectra of wavelength by price? Maybe scaled in increments of $50, or a logarithmic scale if some of them are -really- expensive in the $1000's of dollars?

Well, it really twas no big effort on my part. I enjoyed writing the script, and it spat the output for me. A little cleanup in Notepadd++ with a regular expression find/replace and done. You can quickly find the wavelength by hitting Ctrl+F in your browser. And now that it's hosted on this...

Yeah, I noticed the wolfram one was broken as well. Curious though, the Wavelength Calculator you linked to doesn't use the same gamma factor as the ones above. I compiled the spectrum from their math and it comes out a bit different. Maybe darker, or shifted slightly. Mine:: 460nm 461nm...

Since there was no forum post on this matter, at all, that I could find, I figured I'd make a post and fill it up with a meaningful quick reference at the same time. I didn't want to create a whole forum post just to share the links to other webpages that might not be there tomorrow. :)...

This took me a bit of researching, so I thought I'd post a simple reference of wavelength to RGB color codes for use in signatures and posts. There is no "correct" color conversion, and many people have their own adaptation... this is just one option that looks nice. Shorthand hex color codes...

I created a snapshot of the 9 lasers currently for sale on Sanwu Lasers. I did this, in part as a quick reference, but also because I'm confused as to why some diodes are available for some lasers but not for others. Here goes. Pocket MODULE(P) $50 - Pocket Series (10440) - Smallest Handheld...

Re: FS: Sanwu Laser store - R/G/B handhelds x3 BE & Stainless steel "The Spiker" rele Is this only true for the 60 to 100mW 488 and 492nm sold by Sanwu, or would single mode cyan also include the 5.0W 470nm or 2.0W 465nm?

I would like to see another, less complete, list that only contains popular, notorious, and diodes otherwise reasonably expected to be used and sourced in this hobby. Perhaps give them a birth-death year and/or popularity gradient (bold/big font more popular).

Re: FS: Sanwu Laser store - R/G/B handhelds x3 BE & Stainless steel "The Spiker" rele Dear Podo: Would you guys be willing to photograph dot/bar profiles for each diode at a standard distance? I would like to know which diodes are naturally rounded or more elongated. Maybe include the diode...