488nm diodes price

Jeez. And here comes LPF again making me want to "affordize" lasers and spend some "wavelength money". Come on now.

I know the diode was around a grand, but do we have a total moneybags vigorish "out the door" cost for this thing including CNI's services?

Man. +1 but still... dang.

aryntha said:

Jeez. And here comes LPF again making me want to "affordize" lasers and spend some "wavelength money". Come on now.

I know the diode was around a grand, but do we have a total moneybags vigorish "out the door" cost for this thing including CNI's services?

Man. +1 but still... dang.

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Happy to see you posting again aryntha! :yh:

-Alex

So is this a first? Handheld 488

10fenny said:

So is this a first? Handheld 488

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No no and no : )
Take a look at this: http://laserpointerforums.com/f42/488nm-direct-diode-20mw-cni-pgl-iii-c-custom-build-88160.html

But, maybe lazeerer is not the first one too. But I haven't seen anybody except lazeerer and Dr.Laser.
Hm, wait a second. I am pretty sure that Styropyro has/had at least one (and 473nm as a direct diode too)

10fenny said:

So is this a first? Handheld 488

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Ivansuper said:

No no and no : )
Take a look at this: http://laserpointerforums.com/f42/488nm-direct-diode-20mw-cni-pgl-iii-c-custom-build-88160.html

But, maybe lazeerer is not the first one too. But I haven't seen anybody except lazeerer and Dr.Laser.
Hm, wait a second. I am pretty sure that Styropyro has/had at least one (and 473nm as a direct diode too)

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What he said ^^^ but it is the first pen.

aryntha said:

Jeez. And here comes LPF again making me want to "affordize" lasers and spend some "wavelength money". Come on now.

I know the diode was around a grand, but do we have a total moneybags vigorish "out the door" cost for this thing including CNI's services?

Man. +1 but still... dang.

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Nice to see you are still around aryntha.

Surprisingly the CNI fee for the whole build was $80. They even negotiated the chinese customs to bring the tax down and finished it within half the time they originally quoted and did spectrometer test in top of that. I guess they were pretty excited for the whole idea hence that modest fee. But I had to pay another $150 in shipping + tax + bank fees.

Ivansuper said:

No no and no : )
Take a look at this: http://laserpointerforums.com/f42/488nm-direct-diode-20mw-cni-pgl-iii-c-custom-build-88160.html

But, maybe lazeerer is not the first one too. But I haven't seen anybody except lazeerer and Dr.Laser.
Hm, wait a second. I am pretty sure that Styropyro has/had at least one (and 473nm as a direct diode too)

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EDIT: If you wanna get technical

lazeerer said:

In this build i will be using the 489nm one i have.

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So yea Dr.Lasers is the first handheld 488nm :crackup::crackup::crackup::crackup:

Yep. Nice to see you too aryntha. Glad to see you're still around.

Ivansuper said:

No no and no : )
Take a look at this: http://laserpointerforums.com/f42/488nm-direct-diode-20mw-cni-pgl-iii-c-custom-build-88160.html

But, maybe lazeerer is not the first one too. But I haven't seen anybody except lazeerer and Dr.Laser.
Hm, wait a second. I am pretty sure that Styropyro has/had at least one (and 473nm as a direct diode too)

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I think styro only had the 473nm diodes.

Didn't someone order a small lot of UV diodes off eBay a while back too?

So ... Achievement unlocked. I will leave it here. Waiting for all the components to arrive.


I can't get off of thinking that this is not a 488nm diode but just a simple joke and there is somewhat around 405nm from ebay

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Forgot to mention.
Got it from here for around $1500.
Unfortunatelly this was the single supplier who has answered to my request.

Ivansuper said:

So ... Achievement unlocked. I will leave it here. Waiting for all the components to arrive.

I can't get off of thinking that this is not a 488nm diode but just a simple joke and there is somewhat around 405nm from ebay

EDIT:

Forgot to mention.
Got it from here for around $1500.
Unfortunatelly this was the single supplier who has answered to my request.

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who did you buy it from? can you show us the website and emails that show us what you ordered? (blurring personal information of course)

HydroSean said:

who did you buy it from? can you show us the website and emails that show us what you ordered? (blurring personal information of course)

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Well, the site has been already defined in my post.
This is the exact page with blue diodes: click
You will find the list of different diodes in there.
I have sent a message to info@azimp.ru with a direct question about PLT5 488 pricing.
I don't think it would be useful to post a copy of email conversation because it has been done using russian language.
Lately, I've got the answer:
1 pc. 1650 EUR/pc.
10 pc. 1520 EUR/pc.
25 pc. 1400 EUR/pc.

So, then I have said that if they will drop the price for one unit to EUR 1500 I will order it right now. They agreed.
It took some time to arrive to me because they were requesting the diode from warehouse in Germany (as you can see on the photo -- laser components is the actual supplier, and azimp is playing the role of reseller).
Then, since ~1 month I got my diode, finally.

I am not sure about an ability to order from them living not on the territory of Russian Federation, but for anyone willing to get one of 488nm diodes living here, this supplier/reseller is not a bad choice.
In other hand, I think that forum members may help with ordering these from prophotonix (f.e.) with a slightly lower price and ask to send in their country.

The only thing I have noticed is that nearly all suppliers are leaving enquiries unanswered. Probably because they aren't interested in selling these one by one.

One more detail:
When I was talking about payment with azimp, they have asked me to explain the application for this diode. This was required for laser components, not for azimp. Finally we have ended up with a choice of sending some kind of fake application description, because if you will tell them that you are going to build a pointer, they would probably drop you without any future cooperation.

In this way, even with a semi-acceptable price, these diodes are pretty difficult to buy.

Peace,
Ivan.

Very interesting stuff actually. Sadly, it seems that 488 nm diodes are still gonna be unobtanium (well, unless you want to pay $1500) well into the future.

Dang, awesome picture! $1,500 for a diode still hurts the wallet though

-Alex

We will have them by next year for 100.00, probably.