Ive stumbled across a circuit simulator while on my quest to understand how to build a dang driver.
(I would just ask "Help me build X to power X at X" but I dont want to look like someone who doesn't search :) )
Circuit Simulator Applet
But yeah.
Im just fiddling around with adding...
I just got a 275mW 650nm from him today. Deceptively small. He even made sure to leave me written instructions for the battery.
The lil dust cap is a nice touch :). He even made it signature required to protect his end and full tracking and delivery confirmation. No problems at all! and its a...
I do. I know enough to be a good consumer and "buy this driver for this diode".
But I really have no idea how they work. Well..Ok I know how they work..but information is so vague and lacking on what you can and cannot do. It seems almost assumed by people with obviously greater electrical...
Ive been seeing the I7 heat sinks in a lot of builds! and it looks so cool I want to do a build with one ^_^. But in such a way I will never be tempted for it to leave the house ;) and have plenty of room to upgrade as diodes improve.
Im thinking of a 1 watt 445nM module pressed into the I7...
And how LPM's actually calculate the CW power.
Obviously with a pulsed configuration you can accurately say "it produces X for X period of time" and thats it..it delivered X energy to the target. Simple.
But with continuous wave it is a cumulative effect...so if I wanted to determine how much...
This might sound odd. Im thinking of actually doing something "useful" with a high power laser in the future.
I play around cars a lot and it seems having a laser would be very handy for precision cutting of light materials such as plastics for various things on a small scale. And its much...
I still have this ole 50mW greenie I bought a while back.
its been sitting for a while but I fired it up again and the beam has become much more divergent than it used to be, very thick dot (2 inches at 20 feet) and less visible beam. its a "production" laser, not one I made..i can shake the...
Just ordered my first green laser from http://www.ledshoppe.com/Product/ledp/LP1076.htm
Its listed as 50mW
I was wondering if there are any steps to increase the power output to 100mW+ while preserving safe/reliable operation?