Does anyone else get the feeling that this is a 12x? A PHR would have been dead by now, and so would a 6x... and the threshold on a 12x is substantially low enough that it would make sense that it may not be able to burn things at 270mA... right?
My guess is that, if you truly are giving it 270mA and it's not dead, and it won't burn paper either, is that you have yourself a zombied 12x. Because any other blu-ray diode would be LED'd way before 270mA, and a 12x at 270mA should give almost 400mW of power. And if it can't even burn paper (easy for 200mW of blu-ray), then it is probably just a crappy 12x that is half-dead.
Well, I ASSUME its 270ma. Idk if I'm actually getting that much current. My DDL is set to that, but I'm powering off of a 9v so... they give that kind of current right?
NO. 9V batteries have VERY little current discharge capabilities. Get some li-ion batteries, THEN try it. Or, measure the current directly by putting your DMM (in current mode) in series between the driver and the diode.
It wasn't 13 dollars, it was part of a 35 dollar pack. But, the thing is, it wasn't on purpose. It was supposed to be a 300mw 650nm laser diode, not a blueray
Well yeah, but the point being, he would have noticed he is missing it from his stock. If he sent you a 12x, he probably would have contacted you about it... or not
Unless someone else out there got a red in place of their BR and they haven't hooked it up to see. (Or they did and it went >POOF< so they figure they did something wrong.)
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Or he might have a bunch of diodes that were sitting around? I mean, the thing it came in had zero markings on it, and the diode had zero markings, so it would have been easy to accidentally put it in the wrong place? I dunno, I'm throwing ideas into the wind now, lol. I hope he replies to my pm.