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I used to have one, a little NEC GLG3030. I only got the head, and had to build up a power supply for it. The power supply was a beast with two big toridal transformers in it, a strip of 8 or so power transistors and a control board based on sams laser faq plans for the SGIL1.
Seems some of you guys on the forums here are selling ion's for reasonable prices - problem is I'm in australia so shipping could get pretty expensive.
Ebay lasers I dont really trust. Theres a lot of heads on ebay that have no power rating in the description, so what I think might be like my 45mw nec, could turn out to be a weak 10mw machine.
I'd really like to get into the 150+mw range. (i.e. something that will burn things. I've seen a 400mw set fire to a piece of paper!)
Argons are pretty cool lasers. Big noisy fans, power supplies that weigh a tonne, and the most beautiful aqua beams. My collection of DPSS modules (532 nm) is starting to get boring.
My NEC argon was stolen from me (long story, involved a dodgy cleaner at the club it was being used in), and I'd like to get another one with a helluva lot more power than the 40 odd mw the nec had.
It would be an excellent toy to take to the amateur radio club as something different to experiment with as opposed to radios.
P.S. My first post in these forums. so err.. Gday
Cheers
Ben
Seems some of you guys on the forums here are selling ion's for reasonable prices - problem is I'm in australia so shipping could get pretty expensive.
Ebay lasers I dont really trust. Theres a lot of heads on ebay that have no power rating in the description, so what I think might be like my 45mw nec, could turn out to be a weak 10mw machine.
I'd really like to get into the 150+mw range. (i.e. something that will burn things. I've seen a 400mw set fire to a piece of paper!)
Argons are pretty cool lasers. Big noisy fans, power supplies that weigh a tonne, and the most beautiful aqua beams. My collection of DPSS modules (532 nm) is starting to get boring.
My NEC argon was stolen from me (long story, involved a dodgy cleaner at the club it was being used in), and I'd like to get another one with a helluva lot more power than the 40 odd mw the nec had.
It would be an excellent toy to take to the amateur radio club as something different to experiment with as opposed to radios.
P.S. My first post in these forums. so err.. Gday
Cheers
Ben