Trevor
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For the past couple months, I've been doing some serious work on my Kenometer USB. I have come up with a brand new firmware version to offer the laser community!
What this new firmware has to offer is simple: high precision. It filters noise to the point that very high precision measurements can be made.
Here is a screenshot (this is Luminosity 2.0) of the standard firmware versus a very early build of my noise-reducing firmware:
http://www.safelasers.org/Luminosity/Images/Luminosity 2.0 2010.10.20.01.png
As you can see, the line is very smooth and quite accurately displays the output of the laser. I did repeated trials with my Novalasers X150, and found that each time I started it cold, it had a nearly identical 60-second graph (a longer duration would have been tedious). This tells me that the Kenometer USB is telling me exactly what is going on in the laser as the crystals initially heat up before stabilizing.
Here is a graph of the output of the latest build of the firmware:
That is a graph of lazerman121's Novalux Protera; as you can see, the reading is accurate to 0.1mW - with no physical changes to the Kenometer!
The USB firmware is finished, and I'm working on getting ready to field test the modified Kenometer Pro firmware - which should be even more interesting than this one!
I've settled on a price point of $30 for the firmware upgrade. Would anyone be interested in it were I to release it?
-Trevor
What this new firmware has to offer is simple: high precision. It filters noise to the point that very high precision measurements can be made.
Here is a screenshot (this is Luminosity 2.0) of the standard firmware versus a very early build of my noise-reducing firmware:
http://www.safelasers.org/Luminosity/Images/Luminosity 2.0 2010.10.20.01.png
As you can see, the line is very smooth and quite accurately displays the output of the laser. I did repeated trials with my Novalasers X150, and found that each time I started it cold, it had a nearly identical 60-second graph (a longer duration would have been tedious). This tells me that the Kenometer USB is telling me exactly what is going on in the laser as the crystals initially heat up before stabilizing.
Here is a graph of the output of the latest build of the firmware:
That is a graph of lazerman121's Novalux Protera; as you can see, the reading is accurate to 0.1mW - with no physical changes to the Kenometer!
The USB firmware is finished, and I'm working on getting ready to field test the modified Kenometer Pro firmware - which should be even more interesting than this one!
I've settled on a price point of $30 for the firmware upgrade. Would anyone be interested in it were I to release it?
-Trevor