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so i got all of my goodies in the mail from stonetek yesterday..... got my sony 16x diode hooked up....was so very happy.... but after playing with it for a minute, it blinks a couple times and died (into a dim led light)........best i can figure, the LD from the diode to the driver came loose and it killed the diode...these tiny little mishaps are driving me crazy. danguin told me that a momentary disconnection between the driver and the diode causes curent to build up in the driver, and reconnected, it kills your diode.......isn't there a drive with some kind of safety feature to avoid this?
this is very discouraging, i've spent almost $200 dollars on crap in a little over a month....killed 4x sony diodes...i have another diode but it's not a sony......and the driver i have is fixed output and way too strong for it.... (it's the $10 red diode from heruurscience)
i also bought a test load and fusion driver from stonetek. the test load works fine...but the driver doesn't work.......must of done something wrong...who knows.
i think i'll attempt it one more time.....this time i'll solder on the diode, and then expoxy it to the driver to avoid any movement....
oh, the diode came disconnected from me messing with the lens..when i would turn the lens it was putting pressure on the solder points of the driver/diode.
so i think i'll give it one more shot.....
this is very discouraging, i've spent almost $200 dollars on crap in a little over a month....killed 4x sony diodes...i have another diode but it's not a sony......and the driver i have is fixed output and way too strong for it.... (it's the $10 red diode from heruurscience)
i also bought a test load and fusion driver from stonetek. the test load works fine...but the driver doesn't work.......must of done something wrong...who knows.
i think i'll attempt it one more time.....this time i'll solder on the diode, and then expoxy it to the driver to avoid any movement....
oh, the diode came disconnected from me messing with the lens..when i would turn the lens it was putting pressure on the solder points of the driver/diode.
so i think i'll give it one more shot.....