Murder fund for 16x M-DISC burner? (BW-16D1HT)

[rhd]

There's some basis for thinking the diode is more powerful than the standard 16X BluRay diode.

mDisc Review: A Thousand Years of Storage - Information Week » The M-DISC?
"Millenniata’s rock-like composite allows for more durable and long-lasting laser etching of data on disc. A hotter laser is required — all mDiscs need a proprietary mWrite drive for recording. "

The BW-16D1HT is a 16x bluray burner with M-Disc burning capability.

If there's interest, we could do a real murder fund (max output to death).

FUNDED!

1: PAID rhd
2: PAID rydordie277
3: PAID pman
4: PAID crazyspaz
5: PAID chaoslord
6: PAID the lightning stalker
7: PAID atomicrox
8: PAYDAY laserbeak
9: PAID laser project
10: PAID reign

THE HARVEST:

Scale can be difficult to identify from photos. What you're looking at is a 5.6mm diode in a fairly standard heatsink. The heatsink was fairly similar to those I've encountered in other sleds, and it was easily removed from the sled. The heatsink itself was also relatively easy to open.

Now for the important part.... the testing. Testing was conducted with a G9 lens.....

150 mA 210 mW
300 mA 430 mW
400 mA 575 mW
500 mA 715 mW
600 mA 825 mW
650 mA 865 mW
700 mA 900 mW
750 mA 935 mW
800 mA 955 mW
850 mA 920 mW
875 mA LED

Here's a quick graph:

In short, this seems like a relatively standard 12x/16x diode. 955 mW is not too shabby, but it's also clearly not an improvement on the diodes we already have access to. It's also interesting to note that there was a clear "kink" here. It wasn't a long lasting kink like we see on multi-modes, but it also wasn't the immediate LED'ing that we used to see on ultra sensitive 405s.

However, on the whole, there's nothing to write home about here The 16x diode DTR currently sells is still the best option out there.

 

[rhd]

I am also curious what diode is used, googling I find this:

The laser diode powers we require to burn the M-Disc DVD are less than the power required to burn a regular DVD at 16X speed, so the diode power is well within the capability of the standard hardware. What is true is that the laser power used to burn an M-Disc DVD at 4X is higher than that used for a typical DVD at 4X, but most DVD’s now burn at higher speeds, so the actual power levels used in burning a disc are not that different. The read power is not significantly different from that used for any other DVD. It is true that the Laser Diode is typically the first failure point in a drive, and that a drive that experiences a lot of high power usage will fail faster, but the M-Disc is not the highest-power use that is common with a DVD drive.

Edit: You edited the post to another burner, not the 12X LG manufactured one you posted about earlier with the same questions. The above applied to that burner, I don't know if it does for the 16X model you just changed the post to be about.

OK I will add 10 bucks to start, if you get enough to throw in on it I will be happy to help.

Also, the above applies to DVD MDISC burning. There is now BLURAY MDISC burning, which is what the 16x bluray drive I posted is.

 

[RYDorDIE278]

Is $10USD going to be the standard input? ill chip in 10USD for this drive, does it have to die poor lil fella

 

[rhd]

Is $10USD going to be the standard input? ill chip in 10USD for this drive, does it have to die poor lil fella

Ya, I think so. Otherwise what happens is that some of our generous members may chip in larger portions. That's always very kind, but I think there's also something cool about the idea of equal contribution amounts, so that everyone knows their contribution was important.

 

[RYDorDIE278]

cool, Well im in So update the OP! im always in for murder funds and diode testing

 

[Alaskan]

Also, the above applies to DVD MDISC burning. There is now BLURAY MDISC burning, which is what the 16x bluray drive I posted is.

Isn't this the Bluray Mdisk burner you had originally started this thread about?

http://www.amazon.com/LG-Electronics-WH12LS39K-Internal-Rewriter/dp/B00632U162

The 16X would probably be higher power than the 12X with that multi-burner. Good luck with your project looking forward to the murder, if it must be done.

 

[Pman]

For the sake of all our members I would commit to a $10 spot if this is going to go through.

 

[crazyspaz]

Sure I can chuck in 10$. Kill the sucker! Spectro readings will be done as well, I assume?

 

[ChaosLord]

I'm in for $10 as well. Very intrigued to see what this diode can do.

 

[rhd]

Cool, half way there

 

[rhd]

Sure I can chuck in 10$. Kill the sucker! Spectro readings will be done as well, I assume?

Probably not. I have to recalibrate (physically) my spectro to test the 405 range, and that's a several hour process. Nothing strange has ever really shown up down there, so I'm not sure of the value of knowing whether it's 403, or 408, etc. Plus, testing two things at once is more challenging, so I'm going to focus on power.

 

[Reiign]

So how does this work exactly? Do you get a bunch of the drives and extract the diodes and send them out? I will grab 2 tho happy to send the money now if you wish

 

[rhd]

So how does this work exactly? Do you get a bunch of the drives and extract the diodes and send them out? I will grab 2 tho happy to send the money now if you wish

Lol, nope.

When we get the target amount of money pledged, and the murder fund is full, everyone sends their money, I order one drive, it arrives, I extract the diode, and then the diode gets tested at successively higher currents while output power is metered on an Ophir, to the point of death.

That's it.

PS - it's a murder fund, not a group buy.

 

[Reiign]

ah yeh sweet. Well ill still throw in money lol If its 20 or so short ill chuck that in

 

[rhd]

ah yeh sweet. Well ill still throw in money lol If its 20 or so short ill chuck that in

Thanks for your generous offer! I won't let you toss in that much (20), but I'll put you down for 10 if that's cool?

 

[Reiign]

yeh for sure man i normally just buy ebay pens and over power them till they blow up for fun. This would be really cool