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Re: FS: >110mW Blu-Rays - available
Thank you, Electron, for making the graphs! I had no idea one number would one day mean so much to me!
Franco
The stability of power is the result of three things:
- The current delivered by my driver never changes more than 0.3mA, regardless of the battery voltage. On a completelly empty battery, the current is less than 0.3mA lower, than on a full battery. Basically, you get the exact "same" power (only influenced by ambient temperature) every time you turn the laser on, untill the very moment the battery shuts down.
- The all-in-one heatsink/module has threads on the outside, that allow it to screw directly into the head of the host, creating good thermal pathways into it, (especially, when fully tightened in) and making the entire body a secondary heatsink, that prevents the first one from saturating.
- The high efficiency of the driver means, that it creates no heat worth mentioning. The diode is the "only" source of heat, that has to be taken care of.
All three factors play a big role in making such a small laser stable, giving it a good duty cycle even at a high power.
I once left my 420mA open can in this build powered on for half an hour by accident, and it did not climb above body temp! It just stopped there...
The blu rays actually warm up faster from being held in your hand, than from being powered up!
Thank you, Electron, for making the graphs! I had no idea one number would one day mean so much to me!
Franco
The stability of power is the result of three things:
- The current delivered by my driver never changes more than 0.3mA, regardless of the battery voltage. On a completelly empty battery, the current is less than 0.3mA lower, than on a full battery. Basically, you get the exact "same" power (only influenced by ambient temperature) every time you turn the laser on, untill the very moment the battery shuts down.
- The all-in-one heatsink/module has threads on the outside, that allow it to screw directly into the head of the host, creating good thermal pathways into it, (especially, when fully tightened in) and making the entire body a secondary heatsink, that prevents the first one from saturating.
- The high efficiency of the driver means, that it creates no heat worth mentioning. The diode is the "only" source of heat, that has to be taken care of.
All three factors play a big role in making such a small laser stable, giving it a good duty cycle even at a high power.
I once left my 420mA open can in this build powered on for half an hour by accident, and it did not climb above body temp! It just stopped there...
The blu rays actually warm up faster from being held in your hand, than from being powered up!