Recent content by LtKernelPanic

Thanks for the reply. Life got insane last week and I forgot about this until today. I didn't realize that 22600s were going out when I built these lasers way back when. For one of them the original flashlight used 3x AAA and I still have the holder in my parts box so I could use 3x10440s in...

I have a couple lasers I built years ago that use 22600s and noticed tonight when one wasn't working that the battery was starting to leak. (checked the other that uses the same battery and it was too) Figured no big deal I'll just go order a couple new ones. Seems they've stopped marking that...

Very cool. I really need to get my lasers out again and give them a run but I just don't have the room right now. The bad thing is I can't remember what voltages the one PSU is. You'd think I'd remember to label it as it's not the first time this has happened to me.

Dang that looks sweet. 612nm is the only HeNe I don't have in my collection.

I figured since we've been flirting with triple digits here (that's neat 40 for the metric folks) that I may's well fire up my bigger (rectangular) argon and as usual it fired right up on the first pulse after sitting idle for probably close to year. Once again I'm amazed at just how amazing...

In a shock to nobody my high mileage tube did not watch to fire last night. After warming 20 minutes it finally did but the output was severely degraded. At idle it output a whole 0.4mw according to the light meter on the controller. Ramping up to my usual 5.5A then 7A for a maintenance burn...

You're right about how robust these small argon lasers are as long as they're healthy. In all the years I've had my bigger one I can count the number of times it hasn't fired on the first pulse on one hand. I do have to admit I missed how amazing that laser is at full blast putting out 120mw of...

So it may have been a year *cough* or three :oops: *cough* since I know for sure I last fired up the argon twins. Much to my shock my rectangular head, as usual, fired on the first pulse. Guess I shouldn't be too shocked because i don't think it's ever taken more then three or four pulses to...

Wow! An Ar-Kr white light laser is on my personal bucket list. Amazing pics!

Sad to hear that. I've been in lurk mode around here lately but I was just looking at his shop a few minutes ago since I've been getting the itch to build a laser for the first time in years. If he's still shipping things I'll probable be ordering the diode from him in the near future.

I leave mine in my lasers all the time. Every few months I'll meter them and recharge as needed.

This popped up in my ebay watch list. No PSU and it's TEM01 instead of 00 but it's a decent price. https://www.ebay.com/itm/113727404273

Been way too long since either of mine have had a workout. I suspect my rectangular head will fire up easily but my cylindrical head will probably not fire at all or will be a class-1 %&%$ if it even fires. Need to run them sometime soon.

Yeah. IIRC it wasn't a traditional GB but there was a special coupon code or something that gave us a decent deal. It does have the DB-25 ILDA (and DMX) connector on the back. I even made an adapter to defeat the dagnabbed internlock on it.

Glad I saw this thread got bumped. I still have my sound card based DAC that I got from PL but getting it to work was always a bit tricky. What's the software of choice to use with it? I'd like something Mac based but I can dust off my old windows box if need be. I do have a copy of that pasta...