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Peace to you guys too

Tariff barriers will cause mutual harm *DZ

I feel sorry for him too. Hope everything settles down soon.

Tariff policies are changing all the time, and customers have to recalculate their costs all the time

Hi Adam, yes tariffs are very crazy. All the products that should have been exported to the United States are now staying here. American customers are waiting for a “NEW” policy to pay less tariffs.

YES. I am wondering whether laser lights are "electronics". :confused:

We have several orders from the United States, and the customers have already paid. Now the customers are hesitating about when to ship to avoid high tariffs.

The news said 245%.........

I feel both sad and powerless regarding the people who indulge in this type of self dis-regulation, rudeness, and who relish hurtfulness. Doubly so when it appears they are representing Canada. Honor and respect from this Canadian to my American friends, as always.

Lenny Henzel passed away December 14th. He introduced me to Quickshow at TEXLEM in San Antonio and SELEM . Sadness. We should remember him at SELEM this year.

... I'm from Germany -- here the trend, to avoid all sorts of "made in USA" products, gets a pretty big momentum :rolleyes:

I've been losing interest in the latest news nowadays but I do check up on it once and awhile. It can cause a lot of stress. A guy I know had a friend in canada who he knew for over 4 years suddenly just turn on him because he's in america. He's been going around giving death threats to anyone...

Yeah, that's the one! :) Wasn't sure if they carried that through all of the Melles Griot line, or if it was exclusive to the DPSS greens that were so ubiquitous on the MoboLaser ML-10's back in the day. From what you're saying though, it sounds like that software won't help in this case. Bummer....

Payment sent. 1 XL Polo, 1 XL Tee See you in AUGUST!!!!

Adam, I don't think the YCA's had eeprom's in them. Do you mean the Melles Griot DPSS lasers with the larger heads on air cooled heatsinks? There is old software to adjust the lasing parameters, but you needed the 'magic' password to get access the parameters. -George

Hi I can help, send me a message and I can email you the user manual. -George

He did two^H^H^H three things. First, he put a 90 day pause on all reciprocal tariffs except for China. Then a few days later, me made a HUGE exception for 'electronics' from China (see: https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USDHSCBP/bulletins/3db9e55) But then a couple of days ago,...

I seem to recall Melles Griot had some sort of serial-number matching scheme in place between the head and the PSU for these lasers, and if there was a miss-match, you'd get that head read error and the PSU would not even try to power the pump diode. I know George Mack had a pile of...

I thought he suspended the tariffs on Chinese goods for 90 days? Or was that only for cell phones and electronics? Honestly, it's been so crazy lately that I've actively avoided looking for details, because the more I read, the more upset I get. And that's before we even start talking about...

LOL! Your comment reminded me of a Christmas show I did with Jeff (rgb-gas) years ago in Kentucky. He had some Kvant 6 watt RGB projectors that used 532 nm for green. It was so cold outside that we started to lose the green in the projectors! (Yeah, the KTP was getting cold enough to kill the...

Depends on the class of product and it's homologation code. For instance, broadly 'electronics' were exempted, but not all 'electronics'.

I have an extra MG YCA-020 controller if you want it. Just pay shipping. Also, the contact I had at MG/Idex was a guy named Amir. I have his contact info, but last I spoke to him was many years ago... -George

QUOTE "hobby lobby is.... problematic. Yeah, but my usual industrial optics and camera shop sources were out of the size I needed, holiday weekend, and sometimes you got to do what you got to do. Getting snow in the galvos is unpleasant. The projector in question needed a big, oblong, window....

no one knows... tariffs are changing hourly by an insane angry man and all his idiot friends.

why not edmund optical? https://www.edmundoptics.com/f/high-efficiency-anti-reflection-hear-coated-windows/12261/ hobby lobby is.... problematic.

An easy source of Antireflection Coated Float Glass in the US is Hobby Lobby of all places. They charge a cutting fee (not cheap) and X$ per square inch, back in the framing department. They will have an artistic name for it like "museum grade" glass. Be aware that it reflects near UV, so might...

I do recommend installing the window on an angle so the back reflection can’t find the scanners a second time and make a ghost. Ask me how I know……

... my last info was about 145% :confused2: