Well good bye, It's been fun while it lasted....

[RedCowboy]

There's nothing like a fresh diode, I put a fresh 44 in one of my daily drivers and it's all tuned up and burning well.

What current are you driving at?

I run mostly at 4.5 amps but am thinking I might push these most recent 44-81 diodes up to 4.75 amps.

I have run at 5.0 before but not in a while because the 44 diodes I have last a long time at 4.5a, but I can see a small bump in the burning ability at 5.0a , of course a big heat sink is a must.

 

[BobMc]

Glad you worked through everything and your Hammer is up and running. Time to buy a new ceiling fan.

 

[Accutronitis]

There's nothing like a fresh diode, I put a fresh 44 in one of my daily drivers and it's all tuned up and burning well.

What current are you driving at?

I run mostly at 4.5 amps but am thinking I might push these most recent 44-81 diodes up to 4.75 amps.

I have run at 5.0 before but not in a while because the 44 diodes I have last a long time at 4.5a, but I can see a small bump in the burning ability at 5.0a , of course a big heat sink is a must.

What ever DTR sets it at, I believe 4.5 amps ?

They make a tool for safely removing diodes from modules. It would seem you could benefit from one.

You know i have a tool but i still dented it somehow ? Or i should say "I" still dented it somehow......

 

[Andrew124C41]

If ever I find myself in the doldrums all I need to do is come here for some entertainment. You guys are hysterical. God Bless all of you!
I wish there was some simple way to align 10 NUBM44s in one heatsink, collimate them, and do some really nice damage! Dream on!

 

[RedCowboy]

It could be done, but it will be complex and expensive, you might as well just build a Co2 laser, they have good beam quality too.

I am waiting for the 1 big diode projector, the NBBD40 and NBBD60 as in n1ch1@ big blue diode 40w and 60w, I have cash in hand, bring them on already.

I can see my heat sink with a big cavity for the ice water because I going to push that bugger to the edge until it starts changing colors.

 

[Accutronitis]

NBBD40 and NBBD60 ?

 

[RedCowboy]

NBBD40 and NBBD60 ?

Yea, something like this in the 40,50,60 watt range.

 

[paul1598419]

Wow. A TO-3 blue. That would be something. Don't see it happening soon.

 

[RedCowboy]

What do you see next? A stacked array? 1 big diode would work well with a phosphor wheel. But what are your thoughts of what the 2018 units may contain ?

Possibly 4 dies in one diode like those mitsu 2 and 3 beam reds? Hell if they group well that could be cool.

 

[paul1598419]

I think the new exotic wavelengths at extremely reasonable prices are what we have to look forward to in the near future. For high power diodes, it's anybody's guess. I never can predict those....... they just show up.

 

[RedCowboy]

Well I know they want the highest possible efficiency as well as the wavelength that works the best with their phosphors to make green, eventually a 5000 lm projector may have a 5w green, 5w blue and 5w red but the green efficiency is still very bad.

I hope we get a big blue in place of the 16 and 32 nubm06 engines that pump phosphor, but once the green gap is fixed the big blues won't be needed.

 

[Accutronitis]

A 5 watt green would be so cool !

 

[Andrew124C41]

Redcowboy, keep the other fist open because my cash is ready for that dream diode. Burn baby burn.

 

[Ricker]

I pray everynight for a projector containing brand new 10 watt blues and 5 watt greens!!!

 

[paul1598419]

If/when they come, they won't be cheap. I guess prayer is as good as anything else you could do. Might want to buy a lottery ticket the day you get the first one.

 

[RedCowboy]

I for the moment am going to have to either grow more arms or put more diodes into each build, I have too many single diode builds and holding 1 in each hand seems to be my limit.

Here's a recent toy I added to my collection, not worth a thread of it's own so I will just add it in here if that's ok ?

I'm thinking my next build will be 2 nubm44 diodes with 6X cyl correction mounted side by side all close like kissing cousins so the beams will overlap as they diverge.