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I bought a Lasos argon laser from Chris awhile back. Lasos is not very available in the US, so it took me awhile to get a PSU for it. Then, the one I got was bad. I ended up blowing the photodiode board. I got a hacked Cyonics PSU to try to power it, but it wouldn't work with the blown board. The result was that I started looking for another Lasos laser for parts. I got one on eBay last week. I wasn't too worried about the condition of the laser because I had a working tube. I really just needed the photodiode board. Well the new laser came today. It looked to be in pretty good condition, but looks don't mean much with used gas lasers.
So here it is
It hasn't been run in a while, so it took a few "clicks" to get it going, but it lased
BOY did it lase!
Here -- Count them with me:
1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 6 -- 7 -- 8
EIGHT color lines!!!!!!!
The camera wouldn't show the more subtle differences in color, but you can see them . . . . .
All of this is at only 21mW I haven't got the PSU set up to work on current control. Once I get that working, I should be able to get this up to well over the 40mW rating, eh?
Needless to say, I will NOT be tearing this one apart to make the other (older) one work. Now it will be "parts."
Peace,
dave
So here it is
It hasn't been run in a while, so it took a few "clicks" to get it going, but it lased
BOY did it lase!
Here -- Count them with me:
1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 6 -- 7 -- 8
EIGHT color lines!!!!!!!
The camera wouldn't show the more subtle differences in color, but you can see them . . . . .
All of this is at only 21mW I haven't got the PSU set up to work on current control. Once I get that working, I should be able to get this up to well over the 40mW rating, eh?
Needless to say, I will NOT be tearing this one apart to make the other (older) one work. Now it will be "parts."
Peace,
dave