Hello everyone.
I come to you today with my first laser (beyond those 5mW toy lasers)
I figured if I will go anywhere, I might as well go big so I purchases a second hand greenlight medical laser system. It employs a 100W (110W?) flash pumped laser.
The unit I purchased had it's screen smashed, leaving me to suspect the rest of it could well be ok! :thinking:
Before you start worrying or having concerns about a 'newbie' with such a laser. I have read quite a lot of the safety pointers here and I have 2 pairs of greenlight glasses that game with the unit for eye protection (though I'd still treat the laser as if I didn't have them in terms of safety)
I have yet to fix the cooling system up however I ran the unit on startup and it seems to fault out on the self-test for the flash lamp.... :(
Having opened up the unit, I have attached pictures of the lot, including the flash bulb. (Don't worry. I have not touched it, just held it by the plastic holder. To me the tube looks fine? al-bit the connectors on each end are a little corroded....
It does have a Q-Switch and some very fancy looking water cooled optics under the black cover (that I probibly shouldn't have removed?)
Judging by the electronics. I have a feeling I will need to work out exactly how this whole thing works and redesign the control board as there is a lot of complex functions on it that I can't / won't use. (broken display unit etc.)
I'm rather excited to get this I hope I can fix it but all is not lost if I can't (it was 'only' £260) I wonder if I could Diode pump it if all goes wrong with the flash pumping circuit.
I'm hoping to build a laser cutter of sorts... or something else. What would you guys recommend?
I come to you today with my first laser (beyond those 5mW toy lasers)
I figured if I will go anywhere, I might as well go big so I purchases a second hand greenlight medical laser system. It employs a 100W (110W?) flash pumped laser.
The unit I purchased had it's screen smashed, leaving me to suspect the rest of it could well be ok! :thinking:
Before you start worrying or having concerns about a 'newbie' with such a laser. I have read quite a lot of the safety pointers here and I have 2 pairs of greenlight glasses that game with the unit for eye protection (though I'd still treat the laser as if I didn't have them in terms of safety)
I have yet to fix the cooling system up however I ran the unit on startup and it seems to fault out on the self-test for the flash lamp.... :(
Having opened up the unit, I have attached pictures of the lot, including the flash bulb. (Don't worry. I have not touched it, just held it by the plastic holder. To me the tube looks fine? al-bit the connectors on each end are a little corroded....
It does have a Q-Switch and some very fancy looking water cooled optics under the black cover (that I probibly shouldn't have removed?)
Judging by the electronics. I have a feeling I will need to work out exactly how this whole thing works and redesign the control board as there is a lot of complex functions on it that I can't / won't use. (broken display unit etc.)
I'm rather excited to get this I hope I can fix it but all is not lost if I can't (it was 'only' £260) I wonder if I could Diode pump it if all goes wrong with the flash pumping circuit.
I'm hoping to build a laser cutter of sorts... or something else. What would you guys recommend?