Welcome to Laser Pointer Forums - discuss green laser pointers, blue laser pointers, and all types of lasers
Buy Site Supporter Role (remove some ads) | LPF Donations
Links below open in new window
FrozenGate by Avery
Lava Micro FlexDrive Driver (lavadrive2) fits pens
- Thread starter drlava
- Start date
- Status
- Joined
- Mar 25, 2008
- Messages
- 215
- Points
- 0
Re: Lava Micro FlexDrive Driver (lavadrive2) fits
Recieved mine today!
*Runs off to build Blu-Ray laser*
Recieved mine today!
*Runs off to build Blu-Ray laser*
- Joined
- Mar 25, 2008
- Messages
- 215
- Points
- 0
Life just isn't fair :'(
Now this sucks...
Hooked everything up, was running fine. Adjusted the pot a few times, worked fine. Then I adjusted some more, slipped just a tiny bit and BAM, there goes the diode :'(
I probably came in contact with one of those resistors(?) just next to the pot. Is there any chance the diode might still be alive? I've tried changing the pot, and the power seems to change, but it just won't lase
EDIT: Might there be something wrong with the lavadrive? I recently played around with the pot to see what would happen, and after a minute, maybe, I felt on the DX module and it was quite warm! I didn't burn myself on it, but I got a bit worried about the heat. A guesstimate of the temperature would be around 40-50 degrees celsius.
Now this sucks...
Hooked everything up, was running fine. Adjusted the pot a few times, worked fine. Then I adjusted some more, slipped just a tiny bit and BAM, there goes the diode :'(
I probably came in contact with one of those resistors(?) just next to the pot. Is there any chance the diode might still be alive? I've tried changing the pot, and the power seems to change, but it just won't lase
EDIT: Might there be something wrong with the lavadrive? I recently played around with the pot to see what would happen, and after a minute, maybe, I felt on the DX module and it was quite warm! I didn't burn myself on it, but I got a bit worried about the heat. A guesstimate of the temperature would be around 40-50 degrees celsius.
- Joined
- Feb 28, 2008
- Messages
- 1,809
- Points
- 0
Re: Life just isn't fair :'(
you should be using a [link=http://rkcstr.googlepages.com/LPF]test load[/link] and measure the current before putting your [link=http://www.hightechdealz.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=3&products_id=50]blu ray diodes[/link] on, this would have prevented you from having to adjust the pot while diode was in place.
and also, you probably shouldn't have been adjusting the pot while the laser was on... just asking for the diode to die.
sounds like a dead diode...Snytbaggen said:Now this sucks...
Hooked everything up, was running fine. Adjusted the pot a few times, worked fine. Then I adjusted some more, slipped just a tiny bit and BAM, there goes the diode :'(
I probably came in contact with one of those resistors(?) just next to the pot. Is there any chance the diode might still be alive? I've tried changing the pot, and the power seems to change, but it just won't lase
you should be using a [link=http://rkcstr.googlepages.com/LPF]test load[/link] and measure the current before putting your [link=http://www.hightechdealz.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=3&products_id=50]blu ray diodes[/link] on, this would have prevented you from having to adjust the pot while diode was in place.
and also, you probably shouldn't have been adjusting the pot while the laser was on... just asking for the diode to die.
- Joined
- Mar 25, 2008
- Messages
- 215
- Points
- 0
Re: Life just isn't fair :'(
you should be using a [link=http://rkcstr.googlepages.com/LPF]test load[/link] and measure the current before putting your [link=http://www.hightechdealz.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=3&products_id=50]blu ray diodes[/link] on, this would have prevented you from having to adjust the pot while diode was in place.
and also, you probably shouldn't have been adjusting the pot while the laser was on... just asking for the diode to die.[/quote]
Yeah, I know, but I quote Dr. Lava and me:
Yes, that's pretty much exactly what that range was meant for.[/quote]
And the problem was not setting the pot too high, but slipping while adjusting it and short-circuiting the drive.
sounds like a dead diode...sk8er4514 said:[quote author=Snytbaggen link=1209418066/320#322 date=1219072149]Now this sucks...
Hooked everything up, was running fine. Adjusted the pot a few times, worked fine. Then I adjusted some more, slipped just a tiny bit and BAM, there goes the diode :'(
I probably came in contact with one of those resistors(?) just next to the pot. Is there any chance the diode might still be alive? I've tried changing the pot, and the power seems to change, but it just won't lase
you should be using a [link=http://rkcstr.googlepages.com/LPF]test load[/link] and measure the current before putting your [link=http://www.hightechdealz.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=3&products_id=50]blu ray diodes[/link] on, this would have prevented you from having to adjust the pot while diode was in place.
and also, you probably shouldn't have been adjusting the pot while the laser was on... just asking for the diode to die.[/quote]
Yeah, I know, but I quote Dr. Lava and me:
drlava said:
Yes, that's pretty much exactly what that range was meant for.[/quote]
And the problem was not setting the pot too high, but slipping while adjusting it and short-circuiting the drive.
- Joined
- Apr 29, 2008
- Messages
- 1,562
- Points
- 48
Re: Life just isn't fair :'(
you should be using a [link=http://rkcstr.googlepages.com/LPF]test load[/link] and measure the current before putting your [link=http://www.hightechdealz.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=3&products_id=50]blu ray diodes[/link] on, this would have prevented you from having to adjust the pot while diode was in place.
and also, you probably shouldn't have been adjusting the pot while the laser was on... just asking for the diode to die.[/quote]
Yeah, I know, but I quote Dr. Lava and me:
Yes, that's pretty much exactly what that range was meant for.[/quote]
And the problem was not setting the pot too high, but slipping while adjusting it and short-circuiting the drive.[/quote]
Same thing happened to me when i was cutting a wire on my DDL driver :'(
I feel your pain.
sounds like a dead diode...Snytbaggen said:[quote author=sk8er4514 link=1209418066/320#324 date=1219072999][quote author=Snytbaggen link=1209418066/320#322 date=1219072149]Now this sucks...
Hooked everything up, was running fine. Adjusted the pot a few times, worked fine. Then I adjusted some more, slipped just a tiny bit and BAM, there goes the diode :'(
I probably came in contact with one of those resistors(?) just next to the pot. Is there any chance the diode might still be alive? I've tried changing the pot, and the power seems to change, but it just won't lase
you should be using a [link=http://rkcstr.googlepages.com/LPF]test load[/link] and measure the current before putting your [link=http://www.hightechdealz.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=3&products_id=50]blu ray diodes[/link] on, this would have prevented you from having to adjust the pot while diode was in place.
and also, you probably shouldn't have been adjusting the pot while the laser was on... just asking for the diode to die.[/quote]
Yeah, I know, but I quote Dr. Lava and me:
drlava said:
Yes, that's pretty much exactly what that range was meant for.[/quote]
And the problem was not setting the pot too high, but slipping while adjusting it and short-circuiting the drive.[/quote]
Same thing happened to me when i was cutting a wire on my DDL driver :'(
I feel your pain.
daguin
0
- Joined
- Mar 29, 2008
- Messages
- 15,989
- Points
- 113
Re: Life just isn't fair :'(
You were cutting a wire while the diode was powered up?
Peace,
dave
Jimmymcjimthejim said:
You were cutting a wire while the diode was powered up?
Peace,
dave
- Joined
- May 31, 2008
- Messages
- 24
- Points
- 1
Re: Lava Micro FlexDrive Driver (lavadrive2) fits
Received mine thank you very much this thing is the bomb
Received mine thank you very much this thing is the bomb
- Joined
- Apr 29, 2008
- Messages
- 1,562
- Points
- 48
Re: Life just isn't fair :'(
You were cutting a wire while the diode was powered up?
Peace,
dave[/quote]
Lol, no.
I was putting in a switch for my driver (Before you had to take the 9v battery out to turn it off). So I put the switch in, got all the connections ready, (The switch was turned off). And this ONE wire was sticking out.. So I cut it, and while doing so I shorted the positive end of the driver with the wire cutters (LOL) and 9v went directly into the diode..
daguin said:
You were cutting a wire while the diode was powered up?
Peace,
dave[/quote]
Lol, no.
I was putting in a switch for my driver (Before you had to take the 9v battery out to turn it off). So I put the switch in, got all the connections ready, (The switch was turned off). And this ONE wire was sticking out.. So I cut it, and while doing so I shorted the positive end of the driver with the wire cutters (LOL) and 9v went directly into the diode..
daguin
0
- Joined
- Mar 29, 2008
- Messages
- 15,989
- Points
- 113
Re: Life just isn't fair :'(
OK. You had me scared there. I thought WE had really screwed up if somebody thought that it was OK to do that kind of work with the laser powered up :-/
Luckily I've never screwed up anything by doing some "quick" thing to save a step. [smiley=engel017.gif]
Peace,
dave
Jimmymcjimthejim said:
OK. You had me scared there. I thought WE had really screwed up if somebody thought that it was OK to do that kind of work with the laser powered up :-/
Luckily I've never screwed up anything by doing some "quick" thing to save a step. [smiley=engel017.gif]
Peace,
dave
- Joined
- Feb 28, 2008
- Messages
- 1,809
- Points
- 0
Re: Life just isn't fair :'(
You were cutting a wire while the diode was powered up?
Peace,
dave[/quote]
Lol, no.
I was putting in a switch for my driver (Before you had to take the 9v battery out to turn it off). So I put the switch in, got all the connections ready, (The switch was turned off). And this ONE wire was sticking out.. So I cut it, and while doing so I shorted the positive end of the driver with the wire cutters (LOL) and 9v went directly into the diode..[/quote]
now you know to take out the battery from the equation when doing any kind of work. I'd recommend taking out the battery to adjust the pot even. it sucks to have $20 mistakes.... i've had a lot.
Jimmymcjimthejim said:
You were cutting a wire while the diode was powered up?
Peace,
dave[/quote]
Lol, no.
I was putting in a switch for my driver (Before you had to take the 9v battery out to turn it off). So I put the switch in, got all the connections ready, (The switch was turned off). And this ONE wire was sticking out.. So I cut it, and while doing so I shorted the positive end of the driver with the wire cutters (LOL) and 9v went directly into the diode..[/quote]
now you know to take out the battery from the equation when doing any kind of work. I'd recommend taking out the battery to adjust the pot even. it sucks to have $20 mistakes.... i've had a lot.
- Joined
- Jan 12, 2008
- Messages
- 3,290
- Points
- 83
Re: Lava Micro FlexDrive Driver (lavadrive2) fits
I got mine today too.
But f damnit the diode didn't ever lase, just a faint led-glow. It's dead.
I did a good job with ESD, harvesting etc, but that wasn't enough.
Life sux..
Thanks anyway! It is an impressive driver, I get to use it some other time. [smiley=engel017.gif]
I got mine today too.
But f damnit the diode didn't ever lase, just a faint led-glow. It's dead.
I did a good job with ESD, harvesting etc, but that wasn't enough.
Life sux..
Thanks anyway! It is an impressive driver, I get to use it some other time. [smiley=engel017.gif]
- Joined
- Mar 25, 2008
- Messages
- 215
- Points
- 0
Re: Lava Micro FlexDrive Driver (lavadrive2) fits
It seems that he lavadrives hates Sweden!
Jokes aside, I know how you feel :-/ So since both our diodes went poof, and we both need a new one, I had a small idea of arranging a mini group buy to Sweden (one of us orders two diodes and sends one to the other) in the near future. I made some calculations, and it should be a few dollars cheaper than buying one alone. I'm not even sure if I can scramble up enough money to buy one in the near future, but PM me if interested.
A bit more on topic: Even though I failed, it's still an awesome driver you've made, Dr. Lava
FireMyLaser said:I got mine today too.
But f damnit the diode didn't ever lase, just a faint led-glow. It's dead.
I did a good job with ESD, harvesting etc, but that wasn't enough.
Life sux..
Thanks anyway! It is an impressive driver, I get to use it some other time. [smiley=engel017.gif]
It seems that he lavadrives hates Sweden!
Jokes aside, I know how you feel :-/ So since both our diodes went poof, and we both need a new one, I had a small idea of arranging a mini group buy to Sweden (one of us orders two diodes and sends one to the other) in the near future. I made some calculations, and it should be a few dollars cheaper than buying one alone. I'm not even sure if I can scramble up enough money to buy one in the near future, but PM me if interested.
A bit more on topic: Even though I failed, it's still an awesome driver you've made, Dr. Lava
- Joined
- Nov 24, 2007
- Messages
- 2,735
- Points
- 0
Re: Life just isn't fair :'(
You were cutting a wire while the diode was powered up?
Peace,
dave[/quote]
Lol, no.
I was putting in a switch for my driver (Before you had to take the 9v battery out to turn it off). So I put the switch in, got all the connections ready, (The switch was turned off). And this ONE wire was sticking out.. So I cut it, and while doing so I shorted the positive end of the driver with the wire cutters (LOL) and 9v went directly into the diode..[/quote]
now you know to take out the battery from the equation when doing any kind of work. I'd recommend taking out the battery to adjust the pot even. it sucks to have $20 mistakes.... i've had a lot.[/quote]
How do you set the current without voltage going through the driver :-?
sk8er4514 said:
You were cutting a wire while the diode was powered up?
Peace,
dave[/quote]
Lol, no.
I was putting in a switch for my driver (Before you had to take the 9v battery out to turn it off). So I put the switch in, got all the connections ready, (The switch was turned off). And this ONE wire was sticking out.. So I cut it, and while doing so I shorted the positive end of the driver with the wire cutters (LOL) and 9v went directly into the diode..[/quote]
now you know to take out the battery from the equation when doing any kind of work. I'd recommend taking out the battery to adjust the pot even. it sucks to have $20 mistakes.... i've had a lot.[/quote]
How do you set the current without voltage going through the driver :-?
daguin
0
- Joined
- Mar 29, 2008
- Messages
- 15,989
- Points
- 113
Re: Life just isn't fair :'(
You use a dummy load to set the current. THEN you solder the diode to the driver.
Peace,
dave
Spyderz20x6 said:
You use a dummy load to set the current. THEN you solder the diode to the driver.
Peace,
dave
- Status
