Recent content by Canuke

--> So after coming to an arrangement with the owner of LaserBTB, I sent it on its way to be replaced, only to find that through mistakes by both myself and the owner, that I sent it to an address that doesn't exist. <-- An LPF user, distraught at a burned out diode, packages it up for...

It's not hard, it's actually impossible. Laser sources sit right on the outer edge of the CiE chart, and well outside the gamut of any camera consumers can access. Because of this, the camera must approximate. And how each camera handles such extremely saturated light is a function of each...

515nm is closer to "traffic light green" than 532. That's still green to me, though. I'm awaiting two Kryton Grooves from B/S/T and will be looking for diodes and drivers for them soon; at least one is going to be one of these greens, would love a 515nm. My prediction for when I compare them...

I remember reading somewhere that the bonus Nichia gave to Shuji Nakamura for inventing the blue LED was something like $485. I can't imagine the strain he's going through right now just holding that grin.

If that 635nm C-6 is still around, I'll take it. PM inbound.

Re: Aquarius II 469nm Measured! PRICE DROPPED to 400 SHIPPED! If nobody's taken it yet, I will at that price. PM inbound.

micksterbs, thanks for the advice. I was thinking along similar lines for retention, by drilling and threading holes in the thicker ridged part of the host instead of the handle. I plan to look into this over the weekend. Regarding the negative driver input, the solder terminal (that ringed...

I had checked with jayrob before I began the installation, and he specifically said not to do that. As everything is working perfectly, I'll stick with this setup, and will probably use the nut-and-bolt solution for the driver negative wire connection to the case.

Hey Kevlar, Thanks for the pic, but the can pin was cut short on this diode, and Jayrob has already handled the wiring for the driver. All I need is a solution for the *mechanical* means of connecting the negative input to the aluminum cap. I'm currently thinking of locating a short bolt and...

After whetting my appetite with a repurposed Darcy Metal Gear build (that pulls so much from 3 AAA's that I had to track down some NiCD's to bear the brunt of it), I started looking at options for a 445 build. While Jayrob, Flaminpyro and others showed us plenty of host options, I decided that...

"Fade Out, an eye-catching visual display system developed by media artists Daito Manabe and Motoi Ishibashi, uses laser beams to "print" ephemeral glow-in-the-dark images on a wall-mounted screen coated with photoluminescent paint. After the computer receives and processes a digital image (in...

Don't you get yellow from 405nm's this way? I"ve never tried, but I've seen many references to that here and there. In this case, it's an LED below lasing, so the output band is going to be fatter.

While setting up my Microboost 1A 445nm unit last night, I was using a bench supply with current control. I found that I could feed in as little as 10mA (at 2.2V) into the Microboost and get what looks like as little as 1mW from the laser -- but it's still lasing. There is a PWM quality to it...

I think that how an individual classifies color is just one of several variables. The fact that you make the distinction of the "indigo" hue, to me reflects that you are a photographer or you otherwise deal with color more than most. This is the case with me, as I am very visually-oriented and...

Regarding perceived hue: I saw a comment somewhere that the difference between A130 and A140 diodes was wavelength -- that A130's were deeper blue at 445nm, while A140's were longer, more towards 450-455nm. Since longer means a brighter and purer blue, the A140's were binned for the more...