Re: DONE *** Feb. 9, 2008 NEW BluRay GB... *** D
Well, 6mA more wouldn't really be dangerous, maybe even 10.. But you can not be 100% sure.
As i said, i had one like yours and a good one, and after seeing the good one, i pushed the first one to 70mA to get any real brightness at all.
Unfortunatelly, during one of the tests at 70mA it suddenly dropped in output even lower, than it was before, and turned into a zombie. It's not really dead, but it's also not alive..
I can still see the beam with lots of fog, but it needs 220mA to do it right now. And it's probably <5mW at this current, so you can imagine how much it heats up.
But for some reason, it doesn't get any worse... I can reliably get the few mW of blue with 220-280mA of current.
The good one became the same during the first test, because i went to reposition it, and when i touched it i felt a shock, and the power dropped to 1/4 immediatelly.
From then on, i only use battery power for driving LDs. A PSU powering a driver provides a path to the ground for the ESD. I haven't lost a single LD ever since.
