Re: FS: >110mW Blu-Rays - available
I should have named those pictures "Dead diodes at an angle"...
I tried to push the red in, and make it straight, but i bent my insertion tool. Only after taking it out, did i realize i never had a chance. There was some sort of glue under it! The modules weren't even cleaned! In fact, that glue didn't look like any i ever found in modules before. It looked like it was put there, or simply left on in between diode replacements, and then pushed between the diode and the module when a new diode was inserted.
Man, if i didn't know any better, i would think those two lasers were made to break. There was NOT ONE THING done right in there!
I could fill a thread with what was wrong with these. They are the perfect example of how NOT to make a laser. Complaining about any one of the problems just doesn't make sense anymore. This has nothing to do with quality. It's the most basic things - like actually soldering the wires to the driver, especially on the output side, where the connections have to be absolutelly permanent! Instead, the wires were just stuck through the holes in the driver, or at best some solder dabbed on the wire above and below the hole, creating a sort of rotating hinge!
The weird thing is, there were a few solder blobs (including one shorting a broken diode leg to the base), so the builder obviously doesn't fear soldering. So then why not solder the most important wires (if not all of them, and why not?!?) - at least the ones, that if not soldered, will kill the diode FOR SURE!?!
Now this just doesn't make sense anymore. At first i assumed, that the builder doesn't know how to solder, and/or doesn't care about doing it right. But could it be, that they really were made to break, just to make more money on repairs?
Whatever it was, i don't see how it was any better than scamming. This just upsets me. It's better you didn't tell me where you got these.
As much as it hurts me to tell you this, especially since i know, how much you already wasted on buying them and having them "repaired", what you got there was something worth less, than the sum of it's parts. That's because the parts were set up in a way, that made sure they would kill each other. Even the flexdrive could have been damaged, as it should never be operated without a load (or interrupting connections). Need to test it....
But you WILL get proper lasers out of it! DarkHorse did an amazing job with the heatsinks - they fit like a glove! This time the lasers won't fall appart, from trying to focus.
When you first contacted me and asked if i could reinforce them, i didn't quite understand what you want to have stronger.. That's why i insisted on full length heatsinks - i wanted to make sure everything would be stronger..
Now i see, that even tape would have reinforced these "builds"! But you can be glad DarkHorse was willing to take time to do these. Your lasers will now be like tanks!
