qumefox
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Ill be opening my 4th box after im done with the last few in my tray.
Ok i'll be quiet.
I just see people jump on their high horse all the time over an opinion with no real experience to back it up. Which is why I asked before thinking about taking a side.
Though since I haven't seen any posts or -rep on pontiacg5 saying the diodes are crap and don't buy from him.. I can only assume no harm came from his little 'experiment'.
On the subject of GB's.. I think the mitsu 635's are a bad comparison. For one, $40 isn't nearly as painful to 'eat' as $210. Second, that GB is for raw diodes. These are already mounted wired, heatsinked and are being powered at a rate casio says they'll last for 20k hours at. Someone playing with the 635's would involve them doing a lot more to the diodes that would likely kill them than Pontiacg5 just sitting the casio diode block to one side.
Would I have done this with something paid for by other peoples money? Probably not. Do I think he did it thinking there was a possibility of harming any of the diodes? Probably not. I also don't think there really was much danger either. The actual diodes were far enough away and behind enough optics that any back reflections to diode windows would be tenths of mw's, if that, and airflow over the optics side of the block is very minimal, so I see it unlikely much, if any particulate made its way in there, and any that did would be no different from normal dust.
Probably wasn't a smart thing to be doing with other people's money, but I think the chance of it actually causing any damage is <.001%
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