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I never know where to put these, so it goes here this time.
I know some you ask, "What does daguin do with all of our money?"
Well here's one thing I do. I buy new laser stuff.
Somebody had to do it. With some of the money I made off of my penultimate sale, I bought a Pioneer BDR-203. That's one of the new 8x BLU-RAY burners
There's some interesting stuff with this new driver
Anyway, here's pulling it apart
Here's the sled in the drive. Notice that there is no "covering" over the optics of the sled
Here's a close-up of the "top" of the sled out of the drive. It came out of the drive without any cover.
Here's the "bottom of the sled with the electronics already stripped
Here are the diodes in the sled
The IR diode is a flat diode. The red is buried inside the middle of the sled. There is some thermal "grease" on the red and the violet diodes. Be careful you don't foul the optics or the diode with it.
The diodes
As you can see the IR diode is flat and pretty much useless
The "GOOD" diodes
Notice that the heat sink for the violet diode is pretty thin. We are back to just grabbing it with pliers and twisting to get it off like the PHR's.
The red is an entirely different matter
Here is the "heat sink within a heat sink"
Here it is removed from the "inner" heat sink
I know it is hard to tell (because my macro pictures suck), but the red diode is an open can diode.
However, the red (open can) diode has another MAJOR difference than what we are used to.
Look at this picture. Do you notice anything strange, (besides that my macro pictures suck)?
Have you figured it out?
Look at the size of it. It is NOT 5.6mm like the diodes we usually use and that the violet diode is. Its base is only 3.8mm!!
It looked and "felt" weird, but I didn't figure it out until I went to drop it into the AixiZ module head. It dropped right through :-?
Looks like we will be looking for some sort of adapter or we must hope that the LPC sleds (and their like) will continue to be available.
I haven't hooked the violet up to a driver yet. I MAY get to it this weekend. I might not be able to get to it yet though. The sled is entirely different than the 6X sled. The IR diode is flat. The red is only 3.8mm. The optics are less complex.
We will see, eh?
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OK -- The time has come to see.
From bottom to top: 210mW, 110mW, 10mW, 510mW (you can just barely make out the 10mW beam between 110mW and 510mW)
From your left to right: 10mW (PS3), 110mW (PHR), 210mW (6X), 510mW (8X)
Same as above
With the time it took to take these shots, I'm up to around 20 minutes burn time on the diode (3-24-09).
Peace,
dave
I know some you ask, "What does daguin do with all of our money?"
Well here's one thing I do. I buy new laser stuff.
Somebody had to do it. With some of the money I made off of my penultimate sale, I bought a Pioneer BDR-203. That's one of the new 8x BLU-RAY burners
There's some interesting stuff with this new driver
Anyway, here's pulling it apart
Here's the sled in the drive. Notice that there is no "covering" over the optics of the sled
Here's a close-up of the "top" of the sled out of the drive. It came out of the drive without any cover.
Here's the "bottom of the sled with the electronics already stripped
Here are the diodes in the sled
The IR diode is a flat diode. The red is buried inside the middle of the sled. There is some thermal "grease" on the red and the violet diodes. Be careful you don't foul the optics or the diode with it.
The diodes
As you can see the IR diode is flat and pretty much useless
The "GOOD" diodes
Notice that the heat sink for the violet diode is pretty thin. We are back to just grabbing it with pliers and twisting to get it off like the PHR's.
The red is an entirely different matter
Here is the "heat sink within a heat sink"
Here it is removed from the "inner" heat sink
I know it is hard to tell (because my macro pictures suck), but the red diode is an open can diode.
However, the red (open can) diode has another MAJOR difference than what we are used to.
Look at this picture. Do you notice anything strange, (besides that my macro pictures suck)?
Have you figured it out?
Look at the size of it. It is NOT 5.6mm like the diodes we usually use and that the violet diode is. Its base is only 3.8mm!!
It looked and "felt" weird, but I didn't figure it out until I went to drop it into the AixiZ module head. It dropped right through :-?
Looks like we will be looking for some sort of adapter or we must hope that the LPC sleds (and their like) will continue to be available.
I haven't hooked the violet up to a driver yet. I MAY get to it this weekend. I might not be able to get to it yet though. The sled is entirely different than the 6X sled. The IR diode is flat. The red is only 3.8mm. The optics are less complex.
We will see, eh?
[highlight]************************************************************[/highlight]
OK -- The time has come to see.
From bottom to top: 210mW, 110mW, 10mW, 510mW (you can just barely make out the 10mW beam between 110mW and 510mW)
From your left to right: 10mW (PS3), 110mW (PHR), 210mW (6X), 510mW (8X)
Same as above
With the time it took to take these shots, I'm up to around 20 minutes burn time on the diode (3-24-09).
Peace,
dave
I thought I had "lost" it. I just "knew" it had bounced/rolled of of the desk and onto the floor, but I couldn't find it. :-/ When I picked up the module head to put it away, there it was :-? I even tried to place it into the head again before reality finally sunk in :-[
