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Hey all.
So I was playing around with my new power supply (got it the day before I left for Alaska, so now that I am back, I am enjoying it), and I noticed something odd when I hooked it up to a 445nm diode I had lying around.
When I set it to CC mode, at around 1.2A of power, my power supply said it was feeding it 6V. That's where it got weird, because I knew that it shouldn't have that high of a Vf.
So, when it was hooked up to the diode, I took a DMM and measured the voltage parallel to the leads of the diode.
For some odd reason, the voltage was a steady 4.18V. That's ridiculously low for a 445nm diode at 1.2A, right? I thought it should be around 4.6V at that high of a current.
Anyway, does anyone have any thoughts? Maybe I got lucky with a freak diode, capable of much more > Or maybe it's broked. Anyway, hit me up with what you guys think it is.
EDIT: Irrelevant, I guess. While doing some more testing, it appears that my PSU has killed the diode -.-
So I was playing around with my new power supply (got it the day before I left for Alaska, so now that I am back, I am enjoying it), and I noticed something odd when I hooked it up to a 445nm diode I had lying around.
When I set it to CC mode, at around 1.2A of power, my power supply said it was feeding it 6V. That's where it got weird, because I knew that it shouldn't have that high of a Vf.
So, when it was hooked up to the diode, I took a DMM and measured the voltage parallel to the leads of the diode.
For some odd reason, the voltage was a steady 4.18V. That's ridiculously low for a 445nm diode at 1.2A, right? I thought it should be around 4.6V at that high of a current.
Anyway, does anyone have any thoughts? Maybe I got lucky with a freak diode, capable of much more > Or maybe it's broked. Anyway, hit me up with what you guys think it is.
EDIT: Irrelevant, I guess. While doing some more testing, it appears that my PSU has killed the diode -.-
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