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Hi guys!
Some days ago I found the new 1,6W 445nm laser diode (DATASHEET) on Nichias site. I contacted them and got a reply today. For a single diode the price is JPY300000/each.
For more diodes there will be a large discount depending on quantity.
Anybody interested in? If so, we may start a group buy.
Alex
Hehe, I think a groupbuy is going to need to be in the 100K quantities to get any reasonable discount.
Interesting, it appears they have integrated lasorb..
I think the price can be droped to several hundred dollars for quantities of >50 diodes.
With the NDB7412 available for <$50 in single quantities I doubt you’re going to get 50 units sold for several hundreds. The integrated protection circuit (lasorb made under license or own technology?) and improved specifications look interesting. Specially the increased operating case temperature can be useful for video projectors ;)
I wonder when we are going to see projectors with these in them? LOL, maybe the 9mm diode housings I have sitting on the shelf might get a use after all!Quote:
Originally Posted by SrS
well dave, if you can't find any use for them, drill a 10,5 hole in them and fit a pointer core, for a mini green one :) :) :) :)
I agree. Unless they're in projectors its just to much money. But otherwise I would be all for it cause I love blue!!
I suspect that we are going to see projectors with them in soon :)
The price for a quantity of 50pcs is 216000JPY each. Not a discount I expeced.
The price will not go down even if you order 500. Nichia has strange price politics, I doubt that they sell any diode for these prices nowadays.
Are these diodes just more efficient?
Wow. Did you miss a decimal point there? 300KYen (I just made that up) is just slightly south of US$4,000. Can that possibly be right?Quote:
Originally Posted by lasertack
300kYen is correct.
I feel a group buy coming on! ;)
hehe dave and I bought two 500mw nichias back in the day for around 3K each.
yes, we would have maybe saved a few hundred dollars off each if we'd purchased like, hundreds of them.
Clearly Nichia are targetting moving these in the hundreds of thousands, as always.
I'm still waiting for the 460nm diode that Tonto told me about...
Nah, I think that if you're aex or a nasdaq noted company in medical or consumer products, getting free samples to your R&D will pose absolutely no problem.
The specs of this diode are more bad than the current "Beamy-Diodes".Watch the divergence.
I think its time to start groupbuys for the current version of the c...o beamer before they start to use these new,"better" diodes in their Beamers.
StarryEyed