Depends on how fast you want them to die...
Jesus...
Before my life got rudelly interrupted by a major disaster, i was upgrading my torture chamber for the diode race.
Man, i had everything set up. A cycler, to turn diodes ON and OFF for one minute each (to torture them even more, not to submit to a certain myth), all diodes on their own driver set to the same power (different currents), and all blasting against a photo-transistor triggering a counter. When a diode would die, the counter would stop counting, and i'd know exactly how long which diode made it.
But then all hell broke loose (it was even worse than the shape of the torture chamber in the middle of the upgrade), and i was unable to ever do the "race"..
But from the very beginning i immediatelly got the feeling, that the diode is weaker than a 6x. I got the feeling of degradation, very rapidly. And i knew that feeling very well. A feeling of uncertainty, but still a feeling that the power is dropping, even if it's barelly noticable at the start....
And this was a FRESH Nichia diode, degrading faster, than my good old 6x, which has been through hell almost worse than myself in the past few months...
I am pretty sure i mentioned this. They are for sure real, they are good diodes, but i don't think they are better than 6x's nor worth more.
Of course, my good old 6x could be a random super tough monster, and the Nichia by pure chance a weakling - only a testing of many of each would really proove anything for SURE. With just one diode to play with, it's a guessing game, and since i knew 6x's almost for a year at that time, i said i'd bet on the 6x's if i had to....
So... How many people actually bought this diode and what were the results?
Did anyone do real, hard testing, or at least use their laser heavily with this diode inside at a high power? 200mW or more?
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