Abray
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Ok I have a problem. I don't know whether I fried my blu-ray diode or if it is an extreme freak.
In this story, I am not, in any way, defaming Daedal or trying to blame him for anything.
here's the story:
I got all my stuff straight from Daedal. 2 driver kits and 2 blu-rays preinstalled in the AixiZ modules. I built one, and I find that the pot is EXTREMELY sensitive. It changes almost none at all until you hit 30mA and then it starts going REALLY fast, and you barely have to touch it for it to jump alot of mA. basically barely turning it will make it jump to 120mA. this was all with an LED though, so my first blu-ray was fine! i switched it out and after some very careful tweaking, I got the pot to settle out at 37 mA. I dared not touch it in case it would screw up. Then my dad wanted one, so I made one for him. I got everything set up, shorted the capacitor, and hooked the blu-ray up. I started turning the pot, and it was even more sensitive than the other one, I got to 30 mA and then I applied barely enough pressure for it to be noticeable, and the pot jumped up to 80 mA! I quickly turned it back down, and tried again. Same results. 2 more times, same results. now through all of this, the diode would not laze until it jumped to 80mA. And then at the 80mA, it looks like my other diode at 20mA. is the diode fried? or is it just a freak? I am thinking it is fried, even though that would mean that it would have had to been fried from before I even hooked it up to the circuit. When I hooked it up, the pot was set to a lowly 7mA, so I know it was not immediately fried.
I think it might be fried, but does anybody have any suggestions? comments?
In this story, I am not, in any way, defaming Daedal or trying to blame him for anything.
here's the story:
I got all my stuff straight from Daedal. 2 driver kits and 2 blu-rays preinstalled in the AixiZ modules. I built one, and I find that the pot is EXTREMELY sensitive. It changes almost none at all until you hit 30mA and then it starts going REALLY fast, and you barely have to touch it for it to jump alot of mA. basically barely turning it will make it jump to 120mA. this was all with an LED though, so my first blu-ray was fine! i switched it out and after some very careful tweaking, I got the pot to settle out at 37 mA. I dared not touch it in case it would screw up. Then my dad wanted one, so I made one for him. I got everything set up, shorted the capacitor, and hooked the blu-ray up. I started turning the pot, and it was even more sensitive than the other one, I got to 30 mA and then I applied barely enough pressure for it to be noticeable, and the pot jumped up to 80 mA! I quickly turned it back down, and tried again. Same results. 2 more times, same results. now through all of this, the diode would not laze until it jumped to 80mA. And then at the 80mA, it looks like my other diode at 20mA. is the diode fried? or is it just a freak? I am thinking it is fried, even though that would mean that it would have had to been fried from before I even hooked it up to the circuit. When I hooked it up, the pot was set to a lowly 7mA, so I know it was not immediately fried.
I think it might be fried, but does anybody have any suggestions? comments?