Argon....Blue is beautiful....tube pic

[vk2fro]

Yes there is a thread here somewhere (started by me) I think its called "Bens Argon Laser).

It has photographs of the innards of the laser physics, along with a run video

 

[Things]

Thanks

I've emailed TLL to see if he has any with bad tubes, or PSU's broken or anything. Fixing a switchmode PSU is gonna be a lot easier and cheaper than building one from scratch.

What's the tube current on these things?

Cheers,
Dan

 

[Cyparagon]

About 3-14A. It'll last like 20,000hrs at 3A and a few minutes at 14A. I'd recommend no more than 8A.

 

[snypr]

beautiful beam, might have to add one to my coll later...diodes have me hooked atm.