510nm laser diodes within hobbiest hands

**chad** · 12-15-2011, 15:47

Originally Posted by Laser66

I am waiting for my new shipment of Diodes. It looks like I may not get them in time for December. Yes, the soft green is a great color!

Hi Will, Any guess on the price of the little buggers? We won't hold you to anything just looking for a ball park so I can start planning.

Thanks
chad

**Laser66** · 12-16-2011, 15:50

The diodes are $250 plus minimal value added feature: lens / housing or driver. Just waiting to re- stock.

**Displaser** · 12-16-2011, 15:58

Laser66,

Is anyone making 3.8mm mounts for these?

**logsquared** · 12-16-2011, 16:21

Anyone have a datasheet?

**chad** · 12-16-2011, 17:16

Originally Posted by logsquared

Anyone have a datasheet?

I second that, and thanks for the price.

Chad

**steve-o** · 12-16-2011, 17:23

Originally Posted by White-Light

Whilst there's no doubt because of modulation green diode is the future, I'm unsure about 510nm green. Looks great on its own but from those pics when its side by side with 532 I prefer the deeper colour of the 532. Just my personal preference though and I'm sure many will prefer it the other way.

To link one of Aryntha's photos (nice work Aryntha):

Yeh the 510 looks purtyer to my eyeball

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**Solarfire** · 12-17-2011, 02:07

Very interesting, has a near argon color.
Smells like sub miniature RGB material, great for monitoring purposes whilst creating shows.
3.8mm sucks though.
Hmm.. Any chance of getting the price down with a GB?

**steve-o** · 12-17-2011, 07:36

If it keeps going like this, diode projectors will have as many lines as a gas whitelight; 405, 445, 510, 532, 635, 642, 658-660 , not to mention the 488 and yellow diodes that are out there now, just terribly expensive and low-power at the moment. But we've definitely seen a lot in the past few years, almost nothing is too surprising anymore after that 1W 445 diode emerged.

**andy_con** · 12-17-2011, 07:52

Originally Posted by Laser66

The diodes are $250 plus minimal value added feature: lens / housing or driver. Just waiting to re- stock.

taken from LPF

Though I'll mention that their cost was not nearly in the range of what sample diodes like the exotic 488 and 473s cost. Think of this sort of like those 445s that started popping up a year or so before the KasEO diodes

not having a dig just caught my eye. casio diodes were lik £40-50 each

**Laser66** · 12-17-2011, 13:40

I'm not much on GB's as far as running them, but maybe I can do a feeler to see how many we could group together. I'm thinking 100 pcs.

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