Buliding a burning laser. Please help.

[ishareman]

Hi here i'm new to this forum. I'm very interested in laser and after searching for the information for a few days and i'm start buliding my first laser pointer. Now i want to build a burning laser using my old dvd-rw diode. i was refered to the instrustion video on youtube and i have successfully remove it from my dvd. It seem that the diode need a circuit to drive. Can i simply replace the diode of the cheap red laser pointer with my dvd-rw diode. i was wondering if it work on my diode and i'm afraid my diode will "gone".

Thanks for your helping.

 

[john_lawson]

no you'll need a better driver -an aixis housing well a crap load of things

1) diode -bluray or red it depends on what you want

2) driver  homemade rkcstr or a dr lava flexdrive

3) look in buy sell trade area for these

4) you havent read enough here if your asking these noob questions
not dissing you you need a bit more reading though  ;D

START HERE

http://www.laserpointerforums.com/forums/YaBB.pl?num=1218324818

 

[ishareman]

Hi john thanks so much for your quick respond. Yes i know i need a housing but i'm not going to buy one because:

1. i have a few spare of cheap red laser pointer and i want to reuse them.
2. i am from hong kong and it may be some trouble for me to purchase here.

i see that there are a circuit board behind my cheap red laser pointer so i'm asking if i can use it for my 16x dvd-rw diode. thanks

 

[john_lawson]

CHINA dude thats laser heaven CNI Viasho just a few

 

[daguin]

Hi john thanks so much for your quick respond. Yes i know i need a housing but i'm not going to buy one because:

1. i have a few spare of cheap red laser pointer and i want to reuse them.
2. i am from hong kong and it may be some trouble for me to purchase here.

[highlight]i see that there are a circuit board behind my cheap red laser pointer so i'm asking if i can use it for my 16x dvd-rw diode.[/highlight] thanks

No

Peace,
dave

 

[Deleted member 8382]

Lol you are from hong kong and you say you may have problems getting laser parts?

Hillarious that we are all buying 99% HongKong made parts.

HongKong is the cheap laser house lol

 

[ishareman]

No i mean have problems buying housing at stonetek.org. Anyway thanks for all your help and i think i really need to spend some money on the driver and housing

 

[spaceman_hux]

you cannot use the housing in your cheap red pointers unless it accepts standard diodes or you modify it to. Even then focusing would be hard. Its better to buy a module from hightechdealz or stonetek.

good luck

 

[ishareman]

HI i'm refering to kipkay's "Laser Flashlight Hack!" on youtube to build my own burning laser. The aixiz housing introduced in the video seem to have a circuit (a driver??). i was wondering if that housing is the $5.99 one stonetek.org selling. If so am i still need a dirver to run the diode?

 

[hydrogenman15]

HI i'm refering to kipkay's "Laser Flashlight Hack!" on youtube to build my own burning laser. The aixiz housing introduced in the video seem to have a circuit (a driver??). i was wondering if that housing is the $5.99 one stonetek.org selling. If so am i still need a dirver to run the diode?

Please don't hook your diode directly like he did to the batteries. I think the driver in the axiz housings uses a photo diode to control the output and I don't think you can use it on a burner diode.

--hydro15