Re: FS: >110mW Blu-Rays - available
And a view of the insides. These are empty heatsinks, before assembly. When the heatsink/module is assembled and closed off by the contact board, the laser is pretty much finished.
The original v1 all-in-one heatsink module works very good - it can even support an open can red at 430mA with a practically unlimited duty cycle. But it takes very long to assemble it from several custom made parts.
These were an attempt to get the same performance out of a single piece heatsink, while keeping them just as self contained as the original they were based on.. Basically, they are a cross between the first all-in-one heatsink/module and the more traditional heatsink approach, but still with everything safelly hidden away inside, for protection.
In this picture, you can see the internal difference between the MM-FD (for open cans) and MM-MD (for Blu Rays) version of the heatsink/module.
The MM-FD has an enlarged room in the bottom, to hold a rounded off FlexDrive horizontally above the round contact board. Because the walls of the module are thinner there, the middle is made more massive, by barelly leaving enough room for two wires between the diode and the driver.
The MM-MD version has my constant current boost driver soldered on the diode directly. With this one a shortened botom of the AixiZ module is left inside for a bit more mass and better thermal transfer between the AixiZ and the heatsink/module.
Both were designed to occupy as much room as possible with aluminum mass, and they worked out great. They keep the temperature just as stable as the v1, but they make my work a lot easier..
