old DVD player

[paperboy421]

I just harvested the diode from an old DVD player(not burner) lying around. It was originally from my computer but I upgraded to better ones. I connected the + to one of the pins and - to ground. Nothing happened, am I doing something wrong? Or is it IR and I can't see it?

I'm practicing on this so when I have a spare dvd burner i'll know what to do

 

[o_DEATH_ANG3L_o]

If nothing happened you more than likely killed your diode. You can't just hook up power to the diode. If you did, your diode is probably dead. A DVD player diode wont do anything.

 

[paperboy421]

aww, really? but is it supposed to power up if it wasn't dead? because i went on http://felesmagus.com/pages/lasers-howto.html and it seemed like he did the same thing.

 

[Kenom]

You will stil get light if the diode is working. Use a multimeter and check the thing with a diode checker. it provides enough current to make the medium glow but not lase. so you'll see red and not enough to blind you. Although with just a dvd player laser your only looking at maybe 5mw MAX.

 

[Deleted member 13229]

aww, really? but is it supposed to power up if it wasn't dead? because i went on http://felesmagus.com/pages/lasers-howto.html and it seemed like he did the same thing.

I'm pretty sure in that page it hooks that batteries up to the diode without any regulation, and thats a burner too. So with a player you will no matter what kill a player diode if you hook up 2 AA's to it. Oh yeah actually a girl wrote that page, so you have to refer to the author as 'her' instead of 'him'

 

[paperboy421]

i just took apart a cd writer from an used computer. will this give me better results? if not 2 AA batteries, then what? And as for the wiring, is it basically any kind of metal wire will do? I just took 2 wires i found within the player and taped it to the battery.

 

[Gazoo]

i just took apart a cd writer from an used computer. will this give me better results? if not 2 AA batteries, then what? And as for the wiring, is it basically any kind of metal wire will do? I just took 2 wires i found within the player and taped it to the battery.

Be careful!!! A cd writer is infrared...you will barely be able to see it.....it is easy to damage your eyes on account of this.

 

[paperboy421]

infrared? aww darn, is that true for all cd writers? so is a dvd burner the only one that can produce red?

 

[Gazoo]

infrared? aww darn, is that true for all cd writers? so is a dvd burner the only one that can produce red?

Yup..

 

[o_DEATH_ANG3L_o]

i just took apart a cd writer from an used computer. will this give me better results? if not 2 AA batteries, then what? And as for the wiring, is it basically any kind of metal wire will do? I just took 2 wires i found within the player and taped it to the battery.

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