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505nm and 480nm diode RESULTS

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ZRaffleticket said:
Well. Friday I managed to kill all of my drivers on hand trying to set up for my 480nm diode... I'd like to blame that on a bad soldering iron/setup. Ordered a nano driver from DTR so hopefully next weekend I can have something to show.

I've shipped out all of the diodes I sold to my buyers. There's still one more person I'm waiting on, but I'm not sure he'll follow up or not. I'll make a thread in the B/S/T for the remaining diodes when I know what his deal is (or next Saturday. Whatever comes first)
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Man, that's though, Zach. I hope to have mine up and running today. Since the supply for the "480nm" diodes has dried up, you should have no problem selling that last diode.
 





Damn! I was going to try to get 350 mA out of my nano driver, but I didn't have the resistor I needed to do it after all. So, I decided to set it to the 500 mA range and see where it came out to. But, after adding the short across the two SMD resistors it goes to 149 mA and then starts to cycle. The IC gets hot fast. I'm really depressed now. I followed the directions exactly too. I wonder if Jordan can look at it and tell what happened. I went over it with a microscope, but couldn't find a problem with my soldering. :( At least I didn't connect my diode to it.
 
You must have the worst luck I have seen of anyone on here. Or you and 480 just aren't meant to be with one another. That makes 3 drivers so far? Are you using a test load to set the current or just a multimeter?

EDIT:To avoid further confusion, i got him mixed up with zraffleticket while replying from my phone..
 
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CynicalBrad said:
You must have the worst luck I have seen of anyone on here. Or you and 480 just aren't meant to be with one another. That makes 3 drivers so far? Are you using a test load to set the current or just a multimeter?
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You've got to be kidding. I've been doing this for years with few problems at all. The only two I've had are the solder splash on a driver from Flamingpyro and this driver. I've been using lasers since the early 1980s and have built my own drivers as well as purchasing ones from others. How do these two drivers account for the worst luck. I can't say what you've experienced. I have more test equipment than most people who are members on this forum. I have many dummy loads and always use them prior to using them for a diode. What have you built in your many years here?
 
Absolutely no offense intended. I mixed up you and ZRaffleticket and his luck with drivers. Oops. I know he killed two drivers and I could have sworn it was him that killed a third. No reason to go nuclear over an honest mixup. Guess this is what I get for being the idiot that dares make a post from a phone where I can't see path the post and who posted at the same time without scrolling sideways.
 
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No problem. That one driver I got from Flamingpyro had a solder splash on it when it got here and I PMed him to tell him about it before I did anything to try to rectify it. He was very nice and told me to see if I could get it to work, which I did. Problem solved. Now this one failed and it was while it was on a dummy load. Other than that, I've had few if any problems. Actually pretty lucky as people destroy diodes and drivers all the time around here. It is from pushing diodes as hard as they can be.
 
Actually my count is up to three. I had an extra sitting around from I don't know when :o

In general though, this batch of diodes seems to have little to no luck at all associated with them.

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Also, I'll let you know what's up with the diodes in question. I do have the 508, 509, and a 474.5 not yet spoken for. The ones in question are the 476.4 @200mA which is pressed, and the 474.6 at threshold which is not pressed. Not sure which one he wants of the two, if any.
 
Man, I was sooo very much counting on having that 477nm built today and take some beam shots. I am depressed now. :(
 
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Same here for Friday night. Breaking the one was within my expectations but not both... I'm hoping the nano driver goes well. Not gonna bridge anything. Just running it at the stock 275mA, only need to solder the leads and then stay the heck away from everything else.
 
ZRaffleticket said:
Same here for Friday night. Breaking the one was within my expectations but not both... I'm hoping the nano driver goes well. Not gonna bridge anything. Just running it at the stock 275mA, only need to solder the leads and then stay the heck away from everything else.
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Some good advice I wish I had taken. I'd have a running blue laser right now. Sure looks like you're going to beat me to it.
 
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Well that would depend on two things: when my driver ships, and when my battery spacer ships. I'm waiting until either this weekend or the next to get one of these built... I really hope it is this weekend. I can probably make my own spacer if I had to... but I would really prefer not to. My spare host is a 2x 18650 and the nano takes only 1x. That said, everything IS ordered at the very least... so fingers crossed.

Also, it really sucks having to work away from home. At the apartment I just moved into I do not have room to safely work with static-sensitive electronics work, so I've been going home-home on the weekends. Everything is brand new high carpet (a static electricity nightmare) except the bathroom and kitchen up there, and I don't have a flat porch outside. Or table for that matter... So everything I do just waits until the weekends when I can drive home.

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Edit: Well is not dry on the 480nm diodes... https://www.lasertack.com/en/480nm-en
 
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That may be a source, but the price is 80 pounds sterling. I don't know the exchange rate, but it is over $1.00. I think these may sell for $90.00 to $95.00 each plus shipping and tax, if it's applicable.

At, 275 mA you should get at the very least 100 mW out.
 
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No problem, I have a few G2 lenses around. I just tend to avoid them because usually they make the dot look crappy.
Did you notice if the G2 had any detrimental effect on the beam divergence/format/artifacts?
 
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