Re: FS: >110mW Blu-Rays - available
Hehe, well, i have a 200mW 6x diode which cost me $350 to get (with help from GooeyGus, who has my eternal gratitude for getting me hooked), in this exact same build. It's doing just fine..
The Sanyo diode would be a good thing to have, but imagine the current that has to take. My build can support an open can, and i left one on for half an hour once, and it did not climb above body temp. This means the PHR blu rays have a practically unlimited duty cycle in this build.. My 6x running at 200mA warms up a bit more, dissipating almost as much heat as an open can. But the 450mW Sanyo diode...
I have some new heatsinks on the way, that will maximise aluminum mass and maintain a good heatsink to host contact.. Those will be better for an open can in this tiny host.. They MAY be able to support a higher power blu ray. But there a duty cycle really would be required..
I will need to test the new heatsinks, and compare them to my all-in-one heatsink/module, to see if they are any better. I'm hoping they will provide even more stability for an open can red. If so, this tiny host may even be capable of supporting a high power futuristic blu ray diode. Thanks god my driver can handle 1.5A and boosting to 25V.. With the PHRs it doesn't even break a sweat, in fact, it could power four of them in series. But a 450mW blu ray would probably give it a good workout..
But seriously.. That thing is so far in the future and will be so expensive, that just thinking about it is torture..
Oh, you asked me why in some pictures the beams look fat and thin in others.. Some of it is from the axis from which the beam is seen, as you saw yourself now.. But a part of it is, that in some pictures, you see a PHR and my 6x side by side.. The 6x has a rounder and a fatter beam, compared to the PHR.