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    I just wanted to say hi and do a quick introduction about my self. I found you guys when doing some research on a cheap ilda galvo set i got from ebay. my name is chris and i am from mid Michigan, I am an electronics service tech and love anything laser. my first laser i bought was from i think MWK industeries that i think is no longer around, it was a 5 miliwatt HeNe built into a tool box to make it portable, at that age i also found out why you cant run a HeNe on ac current and ruined a nice Siemens laser, even though that was over 20 years ago i still have the first working system, I am 39 now and have a hoard of stuff laying around. Unlike other fourms i hope to gain knowlage from you guys. i still need to find a DAC for that galvo. i am going to use a lower powered crysalaser brand dpss greenie. i can mod them to output about 50-80 milliwatts but i think it stresses the diode a bit. one of them has an odd over voltage problem, a number of years ago i had a chance to buy 6 of them
    but anyway thanks for having me

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    Welcome to PL. Good to have more midwest laser folks here.

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    Welcome, good luck on your project!

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    If you like to tinker and really get to the bones of do-it-yourself, you might want to make a sound card DAC.

    You can follow a good design schematic or I have kits available.

    I'm not far away from you in Akron, Ohio.

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    I would love to try and build one, i am good at building from plans and good at the hardware side of things, it's software that i have problems, a sound card dac sounds like a neat idea, i would love to take a crack at that!

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    Look here:

    http://laserboy.org/forum/index.php?topic=561.0

    LaserBoy is a nice place to start. It makes wave files of ILDA frame sets.

    Plus it does a lot of other neat things!

    It's free.

    You can also use a sound card DAC with many other applications that support it.

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    Welcome to PL! You will find lots of folks doing all sorts of different things with lasers here... don't hesitate to ask if you get stuck on a project.

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    Welcome to PL. You'll find that this a very helpful forum. The people here are very intelligent and have considerable technical expertise. Tons of information already in the past threads.

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    Hey welcome to the magical world that is PL!
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