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Hemlock_Mike

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Re: OUTRIGHT BUY! 15W RF EXCITED CO2 BURNING LASER

Spicek --

I'm not sure I understand your "simple" 2 battery connection.  Battery 1 is the load??  for what??  With a series circuit, breaking the series connection turns off the power.  
I'm using presently 2 car start portable units in series and neither one is a load --  only a power source of ~26 volts DC.  
Did the tube light up?   A single or even dual 12 volt source should not trash a 7815.   Is it possible you hooked it up backwards?  Are you sure the batteries are in series and not parallel?

Mike

I've read your post again and I can not envision your connections.  If you hooked it up backwards, the 7815 may have smoked.  With a little luck, the other components may be OK yet.
ReRead Chris's instructions about connections. Major damage may result --etc. What did you have connected to the PWM input.
 





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Re: OUTRIGHT BUY! 15W RF EXCITED CO2 BURNING LASER

Ooo, you got it Mike. My buddy had the connection wrong. The laser was hooked to Batt 1 +/- ! Would this explain the cracked 7815?Did this trash out the board?
 
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Re: OUTRIGHT BUY! 15W RF EXCITED CO2 BURNING LASER

OK -- As I said, I can't envision the wiring.  But connecting it to only 12 volts should not trash a 7815 regulator.  It simply would not work.  

There has to be more to this to cause the damage you report and MAYBE the driver is still OK.

Mike

Please explain battery 1 as a "LOAD" -- What is battery 2 ? I don't understand the connections of the input. Your driver may be different than mine. Is I recall, there's two drivers available. Did you have the tube connected? How much PWM drive?
 
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Re: OUTRIGHT BUY! 15W RF EXCITED CO2 BURNING LASER

Spikec, sorry to hear that partner,,, were all having a little run of bad luck :'( I wont be getting my transistor til Monday Ill be laseing with my Icom ham radio till then.... hopfully your trouble stopped at the 7815 ,,,, by that I mean hope thats all that got burnt up :)
 
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Re: OUTRIGHT BUY! 15W RF EXCITED CO2 BURNING LASER

Chris hard-wired the driver so it would 'plug and play'. The place where the PWM would be is jumpered with a blob of solder. I haven't wired in a switch so it is 'connect to power' and lase.

The connection was messed up with the batts. I am not an engineer by any stretch, but my ex-Marine buddy was ('nough said!), and he said that the way to hook it up was +/-  with the batts, and the laser (load) to the +/- of one of the batts. It didn't seem right to me but what do I know?

I see what we did, but don't know what the ramifications are...
 
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Re: OUTRIGHT BUY! 15W RF EXCITED CO2 BURNING LASER

That's the problem ---- An Icom can't talk across the street on 80 meter band ;D Get a Kenwood !!!!

Mike
 
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Re: OUTRIGHT BUY! 15W RF EXCITED CO2 BURNING LASER

Spikec ---

Please define "Laser Load" --- I don't have that other than the BNC connector to the tube. Do you have 3 power inputs?

Mike
 
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Re: OUTRIGHT BUY! 15W RF EXCITED CO2 BURNING LASER

NS, yeah there might be some bad luck but this one seems to be self-induced! Important safety tip - don't mix homebrewing and lasers!
 
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Re: OUTRIGHT BUY! 15W RF EXCITED CO2 BURNING LASER

Mike, by "load" I meant the laser PS board which gets the 28v input. On my setup this attaches to another board (the RF tuner I guess) via a 6-pin connector, which connects to the tube via the BNC.
 
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Re: OUTRIGHT BUY! 15W RF EXCITED CO2 BURNING LASER

Now I see -- I'm not familiar with that configuration. Chris just told me that some lead must have been hooked up backwards. That was my guess too.
He tests his product before shipping and had to do so on yours for the hard wired PWM.

I'd start by replacing the 7815 and check all connections.

Mike
 
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Re: OUTRIGHT BUY! 15W RF EXCITED CO2 BURNING LASER

I always was a kenwood man I just had to settle with this icom throw away rig ;D
 
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Re: OUTRIGHT BUY! 15W RF EXCITED CO2 BURNING LASER

NightStick -- Did you get that transistor yet?? You gotta get back to the burn!!
I also notice several others who bought one of these fine CO2's. Lets hear from you too.

Mike
 
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Re: OUTRIGHT BUY! 15W RF EXCITED CO2 BURNING LASER

Mike: it does't come till monday thats along time Im about to hook it up to the radio to do some burnin I miss Flash Gordon :eek:
 
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Re: OUTRIGHT BUY! 15W RF EXCITED CO2 BURNING LASER

For anyone here who just got one of these lasers and had to buy a 28-32V power supply, where did you purchase it from? I just got my laser today (wasn't originally intending on getting one but I had a YAG that I just didn't have time to align so I figured I'd swap that for one of these - Chris was nice enough to do an even trade) and I've looked around at a couple of places for a suitable power supply, but so far I don't like either the selection (lack of - not the right combo of volts and amps) nor the prices I've been getting, however I'm not up on the pricing of these things so that might be par for the course. Any suggestions?
 
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Re: OUTRIGHT BUY! 15W RF EXCITED CO2 BURNING LASER

I got my power supply 28 VDC @ 18 Amp from MarlinPJones as I recall. I haven't used it yet because I'm using 2 gell Cell car jumper packs in series. At full charge, I get ~26 VDC. My system tweaked to max draws near 16 Amps at max drive from the PWM. I can go down to 4 Amps at low duty cycle around 4 watts output.

Mike
 
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