Recent content by Zithras

I think the pick and iron idea sounds like a winner - especially since I already have some picks I use to clean old coins. Thanks! Zithras

Why not just order a Flexdrive? You can even get it preset to a current of your choice. Much easier than ordering individual parts off digikey and trying to cram them into a housing yourself. Meep! Zithras

After much poking and prodding, I got my Red diode decanned and out of the sled. (Why oh WHY do they use so much glue!!??!!) New problem: The pins are soldered to the old cable (the one i cut). What's the best way of getting the solder and the cable remnants off? (I have desoldering wick...

A couple links I've found useful: List of IR diode types and pinouts, with threshold currents: http://www.laserpointerforums.com/forums/YaBB.pl?num=1238120462/64#64 Bluray glass lens mod (increases power): http://www.laserpointerforums.com/forums/YaBB.pl?num=1237515270 Only 'side button'...

I'd love to see a picture of the luminescent algae if anyone has one :)

Re: WickedLasers 35mW Laser - What am I doing wron +1 on the RMA suggestion.  Sounds like a bad pointer. Wicked lasers' quality seems to have gone down a bit in my experience - my brother bought a green laser from them last year, and you have to screw the cap in at precisely the right amount...

Much better than mine - thanks! Does the threshold current chart work for the cmounts too?

I also received my grab bags today (will get a surprise box next time probably, although not for awhile) - shipping was fast, the diodes were well packaged, and all went well. It will probably be awhile before I can test these, but I will try and remember to post the results when I do...

From what I understand, to get a blue laser you have to use a high power IR diode and step it through several crystals that have to be in extremely precise optical alignment - basically, unless you have access to some very expensive equipment and alot of experience, it's not happening. There's...

We probably want someone to test how long these can be run and at what wattage before that :) Still - these look MUCH more promising than the AW210s Any takers? Edit: it would help if I quoted the post I was replying to... Edit 2: oops - I saw the graph, but missed the thread that...

Re: FS: 405-G-1 Glass Lens Mod-28% Increase vs Aix Just got my blu-ray lenses in, along with a kit and some flexdrives (thanks DrLava!). I don't have blu-ray diodes yet to try them out with :( but will put them in and try out the lenses as soon as I do! Thanks Jayrob for being so patient with...

Re: looking for a 6x sled Read my earlier sentence: I got no results yesterday searching for SF-AW10 on the forums or on google, but just stumbled on this thread about 30 seconds ago. I found out about these guys completely independently through Google when searching for H20L sleds through an...

Re: looking for a 6x sled I also found the same Chinese supplier a few days ago (only at the time, they had H20L sleds as possibly being listed in stock, which is what i asked about), got the same info everyone else has, and couldn't find anything about these diodes. (It doesn't help that they...

I contacted a company that previously sold GGW-H20L sleds, and asked them to email me when they get more in stock.  They emailed me recently saying that they still don't have GGW-H20L diodes, but that they have a new 6x burner sled in stock, which their tests say is more powerful, called...