I already have accidently fried two perfectly good SLD1239JL-54 16x diodes by making careless mistakes in my homemade Daedal DDL driver circuit. In order to prevent mistakes on my third attempt, I want to know if there are such things as cheap diodes with similar electrical tolerance thresholds...
Right now I am currently using a daedal DDL driver for my SLD1239JL-54 16x DVD diode. I designed my driver so I could measure amperage while I run the laser diode. I did this by soldering the leads to a multimeter into the circuit like in this photo
I currently have the driver set to 250...
I don't want to spend all that money on expensive laser goggles but I am worried about safety. I would like to know if a shape 13 welding lens would protect against lasers emitted by a SLD1239JL-54 laser diode at over 200 mW? Without safety goggles would simply avoiding direct eye exposure be...
1st question- I remember reading a blog saying that a diode has to be fitted in an axis module "PROPERLY". Is there a certain way you have to put a SLD1239JL-54 16x diode inside the axis module to burn or do you just snap it in?
2nd question- After being told that a SLD1239JL-54 diode needs a...
I finished attaching the SLD1239JL-54 16x laser to my driver and I adjusted it to 128 milliamps. The laser is not burning stuff but is making a nice bright red circle. Is 128 milliamps not enough to burn stuff with? Do I need to get the 3 or 4 ohm resister instead? Also, what type of heat sink...
Right now I just finished soldering a Daedal DDL driver (like the one in this picture in the first reply at this hyper-link http://www.laserpointerforums.com/forums/YaBB.pl?num=1227655714) and I want to know if it is ready to hold a red SLD1239JL-54 16x DVD burning laser diode? I did make a few...
Right now I am trying to contruct a burning laser flashlite like the one in this video (Ill post the video later once I get 10 posts)
However instead of harvesting a 16x diode from a Sony LG, instead I got a 20x from a Samsung DVD Writer Model SH-202. At first the diode did not burn, however I...