The MOD9 has arrived! - 9mm Aixis Clone

[rhd]

- Threaded to fit an aixiz lens
- Built to accept a 9mm diode
- Sized at 12mm to go wherever our aixiz modules go

It's the MOD9 - and I'm ecstatic to be able to say that they turned out perfectly. Everything fits like a glove.

 

[Helios]

These look awesome! Any promising 9mm diodes out there? I havent really looked into them since there are no 9mm....or were no 9mm modules.

 

[ndrew2505]

looks very nice! nice machine work. those done cnc or manual? im guessing cnc with the tight tolerances..

 

[rhd]

These look awesome! Any promising 9mm diodes out there? I havent really looked into them since there are no 9mm....or were no 9mm modules.

Not really. I have a bunch of IRs that I'm going to put in them - and if I ever save up $750 that I could blow on one diode, my dream red is a 9mm...

...in other words, nope

looks very nice! nice machine work. those done cnc or manual? im guessing cnc with the tight tolerances..

CNC all the way

 

[jcranmer]

Those looks awsome. Makes me want to do something with a 9mm diode now.

 

[Jufran88]

Nice rhd! Did you get those machined from that emachineshop website?

 

[532 with Envy]

These have some real potential for a nice IR handheld

 

[daguin]

Excellent outcome!

+1

Are you selling any of them?

Peace,
dave

 

[532 with Envy]

Excellent outcome!

+1

Are you selling any of them?

Peace,
dave

LOL....I just PM'd him the same thing. I can think of a couple of fun builds with these.

 

[Machro]

Awesome
Great for a 1W IR handheld
I hope you put them up for sale soon ...

 

[benmwv]

Those look really nice!

They are aluminum not nickel coated brass like axis modules right?

 

[rhd]

Thanks guys!

They're aluminium indeed, and I had my design made by eMachineShop. Very very happy with them, in fact, I couldn't be happier.

I tested about 50 diodes last night (from the huurersciences auction) and basically re-used that same 4 or 5 modules, pressing the diodes in, then using a normal aixiz diode removal press to take them out. The threading for the lens is perfect, the fit of the diode is perfect - I'm really astonished that the tolerances and everything just seemed to work exactly as I had planned, lenses screw in great, the diode fits snuggly, and takes about the same amount of pressure as a 5.6mm would to press into a regular aixiz. I hadn't really known what to expect, but I'm really happy.

I had always planned to sell a few. I needed to order 150 or more in order to get a price break, but I never thought I'd need that many. I'm not going to sell anything until the mail strike here in Canada is over though - but once it is, I'll setup a little thread.

I'm also going to list some on eBay, but if you're reading this, don't buy them from me on eBay, because I'll sell to LPF members for a lot less here.

 

[Wolfman29]

Ooo! Gonna want some of these too That was I can get a nice, 1W 808nm build!

 

[rhd]

Ooo! Gonna want some of these too That was I can get a nice, 1W 808nm build!

I've spent almost 8 hours this weekend so far, combing through the diodes I got from the Huurersciences auction, and testing their power output.

I think that by the end of the weekend (and after testing perhaps 100 diodes) I'll probably have a handful - maybe a dozen - IR diodes in the range of 850mW to 1,000mW that I'll toss up for sale, pressed into a module, at around $30 or $40 if anyone wants some.

I feel like a bit of a failure though - I've been testing a lot of this huurersciences stuff, and my approach to testing it has had one huge flaw that has probably been at fault for a lot of the diodes I've been killing. Specifically, I've been using acrylics aixiz lenses, since I had so many laying around.

Well - you know how we always say that acrylic lenses melt? Notwithstanding the fact that I had never actually seen that happen with 445s - it really DOES happen with multimode IRs. Specifically, the black plastic wall of the lenses gets some of the beam on it, and melts immensely. This produces a smoke inside the module that kills open can diodes.

None of this occurred to me until I reflected on my testing approach overnight, and then confirmed it this morning by removing the lens while testing. This morning, I adopted the approach of testing just the raw output of these diodes I have, with no lens, and I've been getting near 1W optical output, with very reasonable currents of between 1.2A and 1.5A.

Interested in seeing a photo of a melted Aixiz?

At any rate, I'm being very vigilant in my testing of this huurersciences stuff, and I'm tossing absolutely anything that I don't feel good about. Hopefully I'll have a handful of good quality IR diodes at the end that I can spread around on the board to anyone interest in purchasing one.

The only heads up I'll provide in advance, is that I'm also going to be very vigilant about not selling the handful of IRs to anyone who can't demonstrate to me that they own good IR blocking glasses. For some newer members, I may be really lame and ask them to show me a photo or a sales receipt if their glasses are on order. For vets, or anyone with a lot of rep, I may just ask them to confirm that they own IR glasses. But either way, I'm really not going to let that requirement slide. Apart from the indication on some of the diode packaging (which I don't entirely trust), it's difficult to know exactly what IR wavelength some of these diodes are - so good glasses that cover a broad spectrum of wavelengths (hehe) are going to be an absolute requirement.

 

[ndrew2505]

im really surprised no one thought of this earlier. this opens up using 9mm diodes in almost any host we use now. any aixiz module can now be switched out with one of these for different colors and powers..

+1

 

[Elektrotechniker]

Excellence! +1