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    Need help identifying useful LD in DVD-RW

    My friend donated me his DVD-RW 16x drive which I duely opened up to extract the diodes. Just to be sure though, is the useful diode, the one on the right? The heatsink goes over the back of the diode. The top diode is still stuck within the mount/heatsink.
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    My first red laser diode emits light!

    Thx to all the guides from this forum, i managed to assemble my own DDL circuit on a breadboard and harvested my first dvd-rw LD :). Unfortunately, I couldnt figure out how to remove it from the mount, so now my LD is still stuck in this iron-material-like chamber. On my first try, I had to...


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