So I just picked up that ALC 60X that was on ebay
http://www.photonlexicon.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=761
and talked about here
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=300046957832
Is there anything you guys can tell me before I power this thing up? I have a 4 day weekend coming up and this is the new toy
Yeah but where do I get the RF generator?The only real problem is blanking: You'll need an AOM (Acoustic-Optical Modulator) in order to blank it. (You can't modulate the power supply like you do with a diode or DPSS laser.) AOM's are available on the surplus market - read: E-bay - for around $100. They use an RF signal to set up a standing wave inside a crystal, which refracts the laser beam slightly. By switching the RF on and off you can alter the beam path ever so slightly - just enough to get it to pass through a pinhole and continue to the rest of the projector or to be blocked by the metal around the hole. They are *very* fast, but they can be tricky to set up and align. They work quite well, however.
That's exactly what I want to do :-DTo tell you the truth, if I were going to put a 60 X into a projector, I'd probably just put a slow set of scanners in there (15Kpps) and then add some solenoids in front of the galvo's to pick the beam off and sent it to various diffraction grating effects. I'd only use it for beam shows though... But that's just me.
One more before I go. I have an EasyLase it supports TTL beam switches. Can Mamba Use the TTL beam switches? I saw some doc on how to write a driver to use the TTL in Mamba but can't find out how to use it in a show?
Thanks
Myron