USA Purchasers?

[gottaluvlasers]

hey everyone-

sorry if this has been covered, but its almost 2 AM and i honestly dont feel like searching through all of these threads right now.

couple questions-

1) any USA purchasers of these casio projectors?

2) If the above answer is no, any interest? I would be in!!

3) if this in *any way* screws with any other group buys or peoples plans on reimbursement i *will not* purchase one.

4) What are we *REALISTICALLY* expecting from these diodes? Under normal, properly powered and cooled diodes, what are we looking at for output? ~300-500mW??

5) Without any sort of corrective optics, are we looking at beams similar to 635/650 modules? Worse? Better? No idea?

6) any ideas of what optics will be needed to tame the beams?

7) what are we looking at for drivers?

Anything im missing?

-Marc

[sugeek]

Marc,

The janitor has you covered:
http://www.photonlexicon.com/forums/...ad.php?t=11371

Housing, TEC, and corrective optics are all planned... Dr.Lava also has a housing thread going which may be up your alley.

-Adam

[allthatwhichis]

1) any USA purchasers of these casio projectors?
7) what are we looking at for drivers?
Anything im missing?
-Marc

I got one... Not sure what to do with it yet.
Good "?"... Trying to get Mo motivated and waiting on the new flexys...
LASORBs

[DZ]

I have a pair of the 445's on the way from Admin. They are suppose to show up today. With any luck, I should also have a pair of Flexmod's arrive today as well. I'm going to be converting 2 dead Maxy modules. As part of the deal for the Maxy's, I'm going to be streaming/recording the conversion process so if anyone else wan't the do the same they'll have a video to reference. Or they can send them to me and I'll do the conversion for a small fee.

4) What are we *REALISTICALLY* expecting from these diodes? Under normal, properly powered and cooled diodes, what are we looking at for output? ~300-500mW??

I read somewhere that someone was pushing just over a watt out of one of these. Since the Maxy's aren't TEC cooled, I probably wont push more than 500-700mW. And when installed in my projector, I doubt I'll have it set to more than 150-200mW since it will be combined with a 473.

[dream beamz]

I have a pair of the 445's on the way from Admin. They are suppose to show up today. With any luck, I should also have a pair of Flexmod's arrive today as well. I'm going to be converting 2 dead Maxy modules. As part of the deal for the Maxy's, I'm going to be streaming/recording the conversion process so if anyone else wan't the do the same they'll have a video to reference. Or they can send them to me and I'll do the conversion for a small fee.



I read somewhere that someone was pushing just over a watt out of one of these. Since the Maxy's aren't TEC cooled, I probably wont push more than 500-700mW. And when installed in my projector, I doubt I'll have it set to more than 150-200mW since it will be combined with a 473.

I have been running on in an aixiz module and an aixiz mount with a dab of heat compound and a 4 inch fan for over 30 hours, running and its been sitting at 900mw. Doesnt even feel above room temp

[DZ]

I have been running on in an aixiz module and an aixiz mount with a dab of heat compound and a 4 inch fan for over 30 hours, running and its been sitting at 900mw. Doesnt even feel above room temp

Oh that's awesome to know. Thanks for sharing!

[ElektroFreak]

MAXYZ modules are good, but these from z-bolt have much more surface area:


They are bored for 12mm modules.

They stay extremely cool just mounted to a metal baseplate, (my 500mW 445 tops out around 35C in a warm room, much less in an air conditioned room) but if you wanted to get crazy you can set one on a TEC..

They can be purchased here. (they're the fourth item on the list in the middle of the page..)

[dsli_jon]

Hey Pat -

...these from z-bolt have much more surface area:...They can be purchased here.

Thanks for the link / ref - those are nice! I like that they've got an ideal spot for a 'fan', too, (if ever-needed... )

thx...
j

[jamesx1234]

Thank you so much for the link. That heatsink is only located a few miles from my house.

[mikkojay]

I bought a couple of those a while ago- I was happy with the quality.
One thing to watch out for though, at least 6 months or so ago, I noticed that their online order page was not secure (https, etc..) so I just called and ordered them the old fashioned way- they were really nice.
***edit, just went and looked & it looks like they have addressed the website security concerns. Just looking makes me want to buy a couple

-Mike