Over the course of a year or so I've accumulated 4 broken C@$!0 projectors and have subsequently pulled 4 diode banks from them. In this video my buddy and I fire up one and burn the $hit out of stuff sitting around. :D The plan is to put all 4 on a laser gun for nearly 200W (before optics) of output. In the final design we have the diodes running at 1.8A each. It would be nice if we could use the lasers to efficiently pump some other medium for nicer output, but even with a crappy beam, 200W will still be insane.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSpDhWoQlgI
For all the people that I've been in intermittent contact with...sorry for the delays. I've been doing a lot of traveling and I'm trying to fulfill my final bullsh*t requirements from my university so I can graduate. You'll be seeing a lot of me this summer though!! I have accumulated some CRAZY stuff recently, and have big plans for big lasers. Plus after a decade in this hobby, I can finally understand enough of the laser physics to create some new stuff. :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSpDhWoQlgI
For all the people that I've been in intermittent contact with...sorry for the delays. I've been doing a lot of traveling and I'm trying to fulfill my final bullsh*t requirements from my university so I can graduate. You'll be seeing a lot of me this summer though!! I have accumulated some CRAZY stuff recently, and have big plans for big lasers. Plus after a decade in this hobby, I can finally understand enough of the laser physics to create some new stuff. :D