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I'm not sure if anybody would be interested in this or not, but I've got a Kimmon IK4123R-B Helium-Cadmium laser and matching power supply model IM120C-B. I need to get rid of this thing (it's big and my apartment is small) so I'm willing to donate it to a good home for only the cost of shipping.
The catch is that it doesn't work. I know exactly what the problem is (I wouldn't be much of a laser technician if I didn't). The cathode filament is physically broken, and without it the tube won't start. The filament is inside the glass tube making it essentially unrepairable without extremely expensive equipment. I've tried thinking of a bunch of different ways to get it going without the filament (or to repair it without opening the tube) but He-Cd lasers are extremely sensitive to voltage and temperature changes and there simply isn't any way for me to fix it. Kimmon tells me that the cost of a new tube for this laser, including all installation, is $6125 USD, and they refused to sell me just the tube without the installation.
Since I cannot justify the cost of repairing this laser I'm giving it away.
The laser itself was built in 1999 but it only has 572 hours on it. The laser head is in brand new condition with not even a single scratch or scuff on it. The power supply is a bit scratched and scuffed up but works great. All labels are completely intact and legible. The laser runs off of 120VAC. It's rated at 14mW CW of 441.6nm and comes with everything needed to power it up. The laser powers up and goes through the 30 second cathode warmup (which doesn't happen of course) and then the HV kicks on for a couple seconds. After the supply detects that the tube isn't starting an error light comes on and nothing else happens.
Full laser specs are here:
Spec Sheet for IK4123R-B
Some pictures of the system here:
http://i.imgur.com/nZxwo.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/VJ31r.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/d00bv.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/zfdsS.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/mFmH5.jpg
Again, I'm not sure if anybody is interested in a broken laser, but if you are reply here or send me a PM and I'll try to get a shipping estimate. Shipping will likely be on the order of a few hundred dollars to North America, and probably prohibitively expensive to anywhere overseas. It will most likely ship from Laserglow Technologies because I get to take unfair advantage of the shipping department here and we get a UPS discount, but keep in mind of course that the laser and the transaction have nothing to do with Laserglow and the company cannot be held responsible if something goes horribly wrong during shipping (like if the laser falls off the back of a truck, gets run over by three cars, falls off a bridge and lands directly in a volcano).
The catch is that it doesn't work. I know exactly what the problem is (I wouldn't be much of a laser technician if I didn't). The cathode filament is physically broken, and without it the tube won't start. The filament is inside the glass tube making it essentially unrepairable without extremely expensive equipment. I've tried thinking of a bunch of different ways to get it going without the filament (or to repair it without opening the tube) but He-Cd lasers are extremely sensitive to voltage and temperature changes and there simply isn't any way for me to fix it. Kimmon tells me that the cost of a new tube for this laser, including all installation, is $6125 USD, and they refused to sell me just the tube without the installation.
Since I cannot justify the cost of repairing this laser I'm giving it away.
The laser itself was built in 1999 but it only has 572 hours on it. The laser head is in brand new condition with not even a single scratch or scuff on it. The power supply is a bit scratched and scuffed up but works great. All labels are completely intact and legible. The laser runs off of 120VAC. It's rated at 14mW CW of 441.6nm and comes with everything needed to power it up. The laser powers up and goes through the 30 second cathode warmup (which doesn't happen of course) and then the HV kicks on for a couple seconds. After the supply detects that the tube isn't starting an error light comes on and nothing else happens.
Full laser specs are here:
Spec Sheet for IK4123R-B
Some pictures of the system here:
http://i.imgur.com/nZxwo.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/VJ31r.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/d00bv.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/zfdsS.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/mFmH5.jpg
Again, I'm not sure if anybody is interested in a broken laser, but if you are reply here or send me a PM and I'll try to get a shipping estimate. Shipping will likely be on the order of a few hundred dollars to North America, and probably prohibitively expensive to anywhere overseas. It will most likely ship from Laserglow Technologies because I get to take unfair advantage of the shipping department here and we get a UPS discount, but keep in mind of course that the laser and the transaction have nothing to do with Laserglow and the company cannot be held responsible if something goes horribly wrong during shipping (like if the laser falls off the back of a truck, gets run over by three cars, falls off a bridge and lands directly in a volcano).