WTF?!?!? PS3 diode went crazy.

About a week ago, I made a PS3 diode Blu-Ray.
It worked at for about an hour, but then died. It was only a faint blue, last week.

Today I turned it on and it was red.
My Blu Ray diode is lasing red.
What. The. Fu¢k.

It is similar to a maxed out 16x in terms of brightnes.

Does anyone have any idea why?

0_o


(Btw, 100th post!)

Hmm somehow it has made contact with the red die somehow, perhaps when the violet die failed.

...I ran out of heat shrink tubing a while ago, so it does not have any on the pins.
So the + wire disconnected and is now on another pin, which will make red?
…does that mean PS3 diodes can be used to make a very cheap bluray–red laser?

Yeah, they're three diodes in one. Red, BR, and IR stacked on top of eachother. Running the BR and red at the same time makes a nice magenta that's impossible to focus properly, though it looks pretty... Unfortunately it causes heat issues and causes it to burn out pretty easily.

I have one that does the same thing: red light out when driving the violet pin. It was like that when I extracted it from the sled. The sled was advertised as a reject, so I'm not surprised. Mine's definitely shorted/misconnected inside, though, as I've been very careful to solder to the correct pins, and I have a couple others that work correctly, so I know I'm not using the wrong pin.

interesting! i'd love to have seen your face when it lased red!

ah, the ps3 sled.. how it all began.. i was rarely that excited (in my laser-hobby) as i was when i found out about this, bought some sleds (3x 80$ or something! heh) and finally saw violet for the first time!
have a look here for much info, they were the first to explore this, as far as i know, thats where i learned about the sled:
Blu-ray Reader Dissection by Leslie Wright and Sam Goldwasser - Main Page

manuel