Hi,
Finished up the case and wired everything up, however I'm having an issue now with the Laserwave green. I'm hoping it's something simple I overlooked.
I'm getting very low output when modulated (I don't have a power meter yet, but yellow is now orange, white is purple) Output is visually very low.
The case ac ground was tied to ilda ground as shown in Pangolin's projector wiring page, but previously during testing was not. I disconnected it temporarily just in case it was causing the trouble, but there no change.
When the analog line is unplugged and the driver is set to cw, the output appears to be more powerful, though still seems to fall way short of what it did. While it's far from an accurate test, the poor man's power meter (a piece of black plastic) would previously start emitting smoke at about 3 seconds, now doesn't appear to mark the surface at all for any duration on cw.
I'm curious what can cause such a power drop, and if it's something I can troubleshoot ? What can cause this ? I've been very careful to always make sure it's properly heatsinked and it never seems to even get warm. Roughly it's been powered for about 30 hours max.
Thanks for any advice,
Miles