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So, I've been very busy at work in the last two weeks, with my assistant out due to a torn hamstring. Now, usually, I have the time to handle the sales and repair of the vacuums, and get plenty of time to work on lasers.
Of course, as soon as my assistant is out, we suddenly get bum-rushed with a million repairs, and with only myself to handle it.
On top of all this, I am in the process of building five lasers for clients, two for myself, and trying to fit in fixing a lens alignment issue. I had to hand polish all three Kryton hosts that I am selling, and my latest Kryton for a single-mode 638, and I decided I had to re-polish my other two Krytons because my Tungstun ring had lightly scratched my 405 and 450nm. That's six in all for those not counting.
I haven't yet mentioned having to tune and prep a 9mm @ 2.3A and a PL520 @ 300mA to fit into two of Sinner's MS-SSW hosts!
Yeah, I'm still waiting on the hosts as well.
So, to finish this diatribe, I was tuning four Blitzbucks and noticed I had the same problem with each one; I couldn't push more than 2.3A out of any of them. I really started to worry, as I want to ship these lasers!
As I sat down to email Wolfman about the malfunctioning drivers, it occurred to me that I had set my Vf on my test load at ~6.5V. I remembered that when I was direct driving the diodes that they were only pulling 5.7V from the PSU! So, I sat back down, reset my Vf on the test load, and BAM!! Wouldn't ya know it? Each driver worked fine, topped out @ 3.1A. I set them appropriately, and could breathe a little bit easier.
I guess things are catching up to me.
Be good, y'all!
Of course, as soon as my assistant is out, we suddenly get bum-rushed with a million repairs, and with only myself to handle it.
On top of all this, I am in the process of building five lasers for clients, two for myself, and trying to fit in fixing a lens alignment issue. I had to hand polish all three Kryton hosts that I am selling, and my latest Kryton for a single-mode 638, and I decided I had to re-polish my other two Krytons because my Tungstun ring had lightly scratched my 405 and 450nm. That's six in all for those not counting.
I haven't yet mentioned having to tune and prep a 9mm @ 2.3A and a PL520 @ 300mA to fit into two of Sinner's MS-SSW hosts!
Yeah, I'm still waiting on the hosts as well.
So, to finish this diatribe, I was tuning four Blitzbucks and noticed I had the same problem with each one; I couldn't push more than 2.3A out of any of them. I really started to worry, as I want to ship these lasers!
As I sat down to email Wolfman about the malfunctioning drivers, it occurred to me that I had set my Vf on my test load at ~6.5V. I remembered that when I was direct driving the diodes that they were only pulling 5.7V from the PSU! So, I sat back down, reset my Vf on the test load, and BAM!! Wouldn't ya know it? Each driver worked fine, topped out @ 3.1A. I set them appropriately, and could breathe a little bit easier.
I guess things are catching up to me.
Be good, y'all!