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laser drivers with diode and wire sockets for sale

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Sockets do make perfect sense with a lab driver with over voltage protection, you can easy swap diodes and should a connection be a bit loose, the OVP kicks in and the driver cuts off the power.
 





Bluefan said:
Sockets do make perfect sense with a lab driver with over voltage protection, you can easy swap diodes and should a connection be a bit loose, the OVP kicks in and the driver cuts off the power.
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Although we certainly do not preclude discussion about these types of lasers, this is definitely NOT the focus of this forum though, is it?

Remember, it is called Laser Pointer Forums.

Most NooB's and neophytes are looking to build pointers using one of the existing tutorials herein.

The OP even tried to justify their use by implying he had a hand-held ("I dropped it") that was working. His offered product most certainly does NOT fit into your described usage of the sockets

Remember, probability over possibility

Using these sockets in hand-held DIY lasers is bad juju. :tsk:

Peace,
dave
 
Agreed, I blew an 8x using a laser diode socket, when I was a noob to the forum!
Now I know it all! lol just kidden

-Sarge
 
Flaminpyro said:
Sorry I don't mean to knock your product but I agree with everone else so far sockets on laser diods is just plain bad, it dosn't matter that they were made for laser diodes that realy dosn't make them safe it just makes the manufacture of them more money if he puts that label on them. and again even if there were no problem with the contacts, as Dave said the extra space the socket takes up will through it out of fitting in a lot of the common hosts we use. wish it wasn't so sockets would be the bomb but they are just to chancy.
Happy Holidays
Pyro...
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its not a product I'm making, its just that I am cleaning out mi room and i had 2 I'm not using
 
also if i want to run the PHR-803T diode on 6 volts how mant mA would it need to be run on
 
lazerman121 said:
its not a product I'm making, its just that I am cleaning out mi room and i had 2 I'm not using
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I love it when they just keep talking . . . .

So you had a couple of these "extra" sitting around. You decided to "clean" your room. You saw these things you weren't using and thought, . . . .

"I should try to squeeze an extra $40-$50 or so out of the forum."

Does that about sum it up?

Peace,
dave
 
lazerman121 said:
also if i want to run the PHR-803T diode on 6 volts how mant mA would it need to be run on
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generally PHRs don't like more than around 90mA or so for longevity, but that info is around the forum and very easy to find. Please try to look before you ask those kinds of questions. You're new here, you'll get the hang of it..
 
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You guys are very critical of a socket that is most likely a mil-spec design.

The only ones I've seen, are white very high quality Teflon material,
with gold-plated formed contacts. $7 is a little high, but if you think it is too high, then don't buy it.

I have blown diodes with intermittent connections like the rest of you.
But that is no reason to say these sockets wont work.

Many hi-tech electronic devices use quality sockets,
with higher reliability than we obtain from our construction methods.

LarryDFW
 
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That may be, but I wouldn't trust my diode to anything other than a solder joint or LOCKING connector. My issue has nothing to do with cost. I just like it when there are as few potential reasons for the diode to die as I can make it. I've had very good reliablility following that thought process. That's all I'm saying..


LarryDFW said:
You guys are very critical of a socket that is most likely a mil-spec design.

The only ones I've seen, are white very high quality Teflon material,
with plated formed contacts. $7 is a reasonable price. If you think it is too high, then don't buy it.

I have blown diodes with intermittent connections like the rest of you.
But that is no reason to say these sockets wont work.

Many hi-tech electronic devices use quality sockets,
with higher reliability than we obtain from our construction methods.

LarryDFW
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LarryDFW said:
You guys are very critical of a socket that is most likely a mil-spec design.
The only ones I've seen, are white very high quality Teflon material,
with gold-plated formed contacts. $7 is a little high, but if you think it is too high, then don't buy it.
I have blown diodes with intermittent connections like the rest of you.
But that is no reason to say these sockets wont work.
Many hi-tech electronic devices use quality sockets,
with higher reliability than we obtain from our construction methods.
LarryDFW
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Nobody said that they didn't work (or if they did, I missed it). We said that they were dangerous for laser diodes. This is especially true when used in a hand held laser built by someone looking for an easier way to do it because they are a neophyte and lack experience and confidence in their soldering ability.

I would ask you to keep this in context.

You are a knowledgeable and experienced builder. How many of your hand held lasers have you used these types of sockets in? How many of your lab style lasers have you used these sockets in? How many times have you recommended to a neophyte that they use these sockets to make their building a laser easier?

Peace,
dave
 
daguin said:
because they are a neophyte and lack experience and confidence in their soldering ability.
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I resemble that remark...

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these are high quality sockets are meant for low to high power diodes and the hold the diode so tight the do not loose connection
 
lazerman121 said:
these are high quality sockets are meant for low to high power diodes and the hold the diode so tight the do not loose connection
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:thinking: Hmmm...Trust a guy nobody knows, or trust people who work with lasers just about everyday for decades? :tinfoil:

"lasers
1 5mW green laser-elitelasers.com
many 5mW red
1 5mw violet(blue-ray) laser-eBay"

LMAO...I think the answer is simple.
 
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