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Title says it all, how many have turned into very expensive LEDs? Any of particular stupidity/ingeniousness? Any special memories?
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Me personally, I'm a very low-volume laser maker, and pretty lucky. I've made exactly 3 DIY lasers: a Blu-Ray from psxboy sled, and 2 Senkat 16x reds in fairly nice flashlight hosts, and I'm batting 1.000 so far. I'm a huge believer in reading a ton and going super slow in making these things. I sit down and do it all at once for 1 laser, but I'm extremely slow and careful. And after preparing by reading everything on here, I've yet to make any costly mistakes (I did get fairly lucky though, snapped a pin off one of the red diodes. Luckily, it was the ground pin, and I rigged something up for it). I'm sure I will though, it's only a matter of time. But it's also kind of essential for me: on my student budget, I am budgeting myself 2 lasers per semester, and I can't afford to blow my budget by doing something avoidable and killing a diode. How about you guys?
Discuss
Me personally, I'm a very low-volume laser maker, and pretty lucky. I've made exactly 3 DIY lasers: a Blu-Ray from psxboy sled, and 2 Senkat 16x reds in fairly nice flashlight hosts, and I'm batting 1.000 so far. I'm a huge believer in reading a ton and going super slow in making these things. I sit down and do it all at once for 1 laser, but I'm extremely slow and careful. And after preparing by reading everything on here, I've yet to make any costly mistakes (I did get fairly lucky though, snapped a pin off one of the red diodes. Luckily, it was the ground pin, and I rigged something up for it). I'm sure I will though, it's only a matter of time. But it's also kind of essential for me: on my student budget, I am budgeting myself 2 lasers per semester, and I can't afford to blow my budget by doing something avoidable and killing a diode. How about you guys?
