I got my two last Thursday. Thanks Daedal! I built out one pointer so far and it's been going strong for 3 days now! I'm lovein it! Merry Christmas to you!
That was my blueray that died using the 7805 setup, but in my post I did explain that I set it to 47ma's instead of 1-2 ma's past lazing threashold. I'm sure I overdrove that one. I have 2 more diodes on order and I plan to still use the 7805 setup, but I will tune them better this time.
Re: DONE *** BluRays again ;) *** DONE
I agree with Sparks, I'll be sending some more cash to cover losses. I tried the whole salvage thing with the blues and I was glad to see you offer it on your latest GBs.
These guys seem real pushy to me. That's a bit of a turn off for me consumer wise. Daedel is a busy guy on this forum running with several projects right now. I'm sure he will get to this when he can.
Here's my contribution. I did these in photoshop. You can request free sample laser labels from www.onlinelabels.com. I requested 3 sheets of metalic silver bar code size labels for mine. They sent them within 3 days. Pretty cool company. They also have free downloadeable templates for every...
That's an excellent suggestion! I fear that the plastic may melt if we try to solder to it but if we could salvage the connector the ribbon plugs into we may have something!
LOL Man, that does suck! Sorry to hear about your mishap. Yeah, I didn't realize that the connection ribbon was actually a small circuit board soldered to the back of the diode so I tried to press it into the module with that still attached. It smashed all my pins together but I was able to use...