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Re: 12x Blu-ray SLEDS GB! 450mW!! Sanyo 12x!!
I don't know if anyone even cares anymore, but...
My test 4x has by now survived over 112 hours!
Today it is doing anywhere between 140-151mW. It's dropping in and out of the kink, so the power goes up and down with temperature, meaning it degraded enough to roll down it's own slope and fall into a kink...
And......
My one and only 6x is dying, cos i set it higher in order to find out what the "6x" diodes from this GB would be safe to set to.... :'(
210mW (through a plastic lens = >260mW raw output) is NOT a safe long term power even for a 6x diode. Not if you actually use it. I'm sure a 6x would survive 200mA longer than any PHR would survive 150mA, but it's not actually a stable power. But then again, that only makes sense, if you consider the raw output at 200mA.... Even at 198mA it degraded...
We are expecting way too much from these diodes, resulting in lasers with a life in tens of hours at best.. I don't even remember how many <20 hour PHR lasers i made for myself..
I don't know if anyone even cares anymore, but...
My test 4x has by now survived over 112 hours!
Today it is doing anywhere between 140-151mW. It's dropping in and out of the kink, so the power goes up and down with temperature, meaning it degraded enough to roll down it's own slope and fall into a kink...
And......
My one and only 6x is dying, cos i set it higher in order to find out what the "6x" diodes from this GB would be safe to set to.... :'(
210mW (through a plastic lens = >260mW raw output) is NOT a safe long term power even for a 6x diode. Not if you actually use it. I'm sure a 6x would survive 200mA longer than any PHR would survive 150mA, but it's not actually a stable power. But then again, that only makes sense, if you consider the raw output at 200mA.... Even at 198mA it degraded...
We are expecting way too much from these diodes, resulting in lasers with a life in tens of hours at best.. I don't even remember how many <20 hour PHR lasers i made for myself..