Hi from Virginia

Hello everyone, Just want to say thanks for running a great site.
I have a been a laser geek for sometime now. First got interested when we started using Rofin laser welders at work.
Currently I own five lasers that I have built using diodes purchased on Ebay.
Red laser pointer diode mounted in a smc air cylinder housing, green laser diode also mounted in a smc housing, a blue laser diode running at 100mw also mounted in a smc cylinder housing, albeit a little longer to accommodate the 9 aa batteries (it burns a little but nothing great), an IR diode mounted in a old vision system camera housing running at 250mw, and then the newest one completed last week is IR diode running at 1watt also mounted in a camera housing but instead of batteries this on runs off of a homebuilt power supply, burning things has gotten a lot more fun.
Looking forward to learn lots more and share info when i can.:beer:

Hello, fellow Virginian.

Welcome!

-Trevor

Welcome.
Air cylinder & camera housing hosts? I always like interesting or different designs!
We welcome pictures by the way.
Hope you enjoy LPF

rockfshr said:

Hello everyone, Just want to say thanks for running a great site.
I have a been a laser geek for sometime now. First got interested when we started using Rofin laser welders at work. Currently I own five lasers that I have built using diodes purchased on Ebay. Red laser pointer diode mounted in a smc air cylinder housing, green laser dode also mounted in a smc housing, a blue laser diode running at 100mw also mounted in a smc cylinder housing albeit a little longer to accommodate the 9 aa batteries (it burns a little but nothing great), an IR diode mounted in a old vision system camera housing running at 250mw, and then the newest one completed last week is IR diode running at 1watt also mounted in a camera housing but instead of batteries this on runs off of a homebuilt power supply, burning things has gotten a lot more fun.
Looking forward to learn lots more and share info when i can.:beer:

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Jerry

ill see what I can do about better layout of my posts. Sorry to hurt your eyes.

No problem....
It didn't hurt my eyes... I just didn't read it...:yh:

Jerry

Ive added some pictures to album. Please let me know what you think.:thanks:

Nice.
This one is your 250mw IR diode right?
rockfshr/albums/my-lasers Picture 2 of 3
Looks like your using camera lens for focusing, does it work well?

Yep that's the one, and yes the lens has done really well.
Would be nice if it wasn't so long but it was an experiment just to try.

Hello and welcome to the forum.
Im also from Virginia and curious What part are you from.
Its good to see theres more of us in Virginia.

I am in Hampton roads. Thanks for the comments:beer: