Killed 3 diodes...Any tips?

Holy threadjack! I don't mind though, getting some good knowlege from it op:.
I thought "Screw it with these pain in the a$$ LPC's" so I went ahead and bought a DX dilda. It burns even better than my Blu-ray.

I saw your other thread, can the LM3410X be used on a protoboard? I'm pretty sure I'll butcher the driver with no SMD soldering experience.

Only thing I have to comment on is, you know the orange goggles you have laying on your desk offer zero protection from red's right Toke? Hopefully you had the correct ones on heh.

One of my videos is in the diode compilation thread for extracting these things.

A handy tool is flaminpyro's diode press. it's well worth the money and it works great.

Remember to short out the driver to discharge the capacitors before soldering the diode on.

make the soldering short and quick. If it doesn't solder immediately, back off and let it cool down before trying again....don't keep grinding into it with a hot solder point.

Other than that it's trial and error. hopefully you'll only make the same mistake once. Then you'll only have to break a dozen or so

I remember when i killed $300 worth of diodes in about an hour. It was scary....the bdr-s03, were were duped into buying they they went LED on everyone.

qumefox said:

Only thing I have to comment on is, you know the orange goggles you have laying on your desk offer zero protection from red's right Toke? Hopefully you had the correct ones on heh.

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That is rather unpleasant news. (
I have ordered goggles from O-like, and I assumed they were from them.

Now I see that their shipment left Hong Kong yesterday???

rockz said:

Holy threadjack! I don't mind though, getting some good knowlege from it op:.
I thought "Screw it with these pain in the a$$ LPC's" so I went ahead and bought a DX dilda. It burns even better than my Blu-ray.

I saw your other thread, can the LM3410X be used on a protoboard? I'm pretty sure I'll butcher the driver with no SMD soldering experience.

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Many sorryz about the thread jack. I'd warmly reccomend searching youtube for "red diode extraction" or "harvesting red diode" , a lot of videos there.

SMD soldering at it's finest, SOT23-5 tiny case for ICs is pretty much impossible if you did not have any SMD experience.

I'd reccomend you some linear LM317 based drivers as starters, then some SMD LM1117 and similar before attempting some boost drivers.

Toke said:

That is rather unpleasant news. (
I have ordered goggles from O-like, and I assumed they were from them.

Now I see that their shipment left Hong Kong yesterday???

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Yeah goggles that stop red will be blue or sometimes greenish if they're multi-wavelength but it really depends.

Though if you can still clearly see the 'dot' while wearing them, you'll know the particular goggles offer little, if any, protection at that wavelength.

if i have a 650nm laser housing(aixiz) will it work with a 808nm 300mw laser diode?

thanks in adavance

You posted the same question in three threads. I smell troll.

yea.. sorry
i just needed a quick reply

mikey395 said:

yea.. sorry
i just needed a quick reply

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Will work.

Quick enough?

Dude, if you got a 5.6mm diode, and 5.6 mm housing, I see no reason for it not to work.
No diode housing is meant for one color diode. Lenses are for that. Diode housing secures diode and lens in place for you.

Why is it so difficult to use common sense sometimes?

Next thing you know "I have a red 650nm diode but lens coated for 660nm diode, will it work?" Presumably also added "...or will the universe explode if I try", or implied.