Recent content by DragonSoulSong

Indeed I am open to suggestions, and I do rather enjoy mixing my avi up slightly from time-to-time. :3 I might see about it, now that you mention it. ^_^ DA is indeed quite a source for all things eye candy, as well as thought-provoking things such as poetry and the like, and right there are...

No offense taken. ^_^ I appreciate honesty of opinion when it is given in a respectful manner. :) Trust me, I know quite well that ponies aren't for everyone, and I respect that completely. That being said, I'm not too terribly afraid to show in at least a few ways that I like the show myself...

Hmm...I've been using DragonSoulSong and its abbreviations as my online alias at most locations on the Internet that I've stopped by for several years ever since I originally got a little sick of what I started out with a couple of years prior to that..."ExcimerSunSoftware"... The original name...

I agree that the project could stand to be stopped, for safety reasons, but as for the concern about the safety of it based on the appearance of the beams, it seems that fog may very well have been used for those photos. If not...oh dear indeed! Dragon/Cody

Iirc, a passive cooling system essentially means any method of cooling the diode that doesn't require the cooling medium to "do" anything. Passive cooling for lasers is exceptionally common in hand-held lasers, where a mass of thermally conductive material, generally Aluminum, Copper, or Brass...

Man, I've been gone for a few days and I came back, read through this thread from what I last saw in it, and I must say, exciting results so far! If these little guys can consistently manage 100mW+, that's simply incredible! :D

XD Indeed, one can always hope. It would be nice to see one of these churn out upwards of 80mW or more, but if they all seem to sit pretty at ~50mW, I'm sure that most of us can live with that for a direct-diode green. ^_^

Oh, good point. I didn't think about that when I was posting above. Multi-mode blue would make for a much more dirty white beam than otherwise...so one would likely want to stick with the single-mode 405nm or 450nm diodes anyways for the sake of the quality of the mixed beam. Dragon/Cody

I'm uncertain, to be honest, and I would likely not be the best person to answer that question. My bet would be that you'd have a hard time driving a 445nm diode, such as an M140 or an A140, low enough to not find yourself wanting for more power in your 650nm and 532nm as well. The lowest that I...

I believe that he's recommending 405nm diodes on the combined basis of price and power. With 405nm, you could achieve a fairly nice white-light laser for less than with a 445nm diode, on top of the fact that most 445nm diodes are going to be much more powerful than a 405nm diode, meaning that...

The only trick with that one would be that, while it claims to be a <5mW laser, this is an ebay pen that we're talking about, so it could easily be overspec, which would kind of defeat the presumable purpose of having a "safe", "<5mW" 450nm. That's just my take on it. I could be wrong, it could...

Well...it seems that I'm a little late to the proverbial party, thanks to the way that my time has worked out today, but in any case, payment sent. ^_^

I'm willing to help. Make that $10 from me. :)

I could not agree more with both of those statements. :D Personally, coming onto LPF and seeing ponies around every corner quite literally made my day. ^_^ If it had been Hello Kitty...I may have wept a little... XD Dragon/Cody

Hmm...curious... I don't think that I have that issue myself, but I'll wait on a picture of it before I can fully confirm or deny that. Indeed. :) This has easily become my favorite laser out of my limited collection at the moment. The wavelength itself is gorgeous, imo, and single-mode is...