I received my customer dichro from Adam today. Thank you Sir! This was a long group buy; mainly in getting people together to get the discount. I feel it has been very smooth, especially once the order was made. Maybe not for Adam at the Post Office.
I forgot to take a picture of it outside of the mount but there is small black layer around the "rim" of the filter, with an arrow that I hope means transmit this way.
This is not a review, almost a rant. It was NOT easy to get everything aligned. That 4th laser's a Bitch... alignment(hard)^4; I am glad I have my blue last; adding 405 might not be that hard. I have red last and have to align with the 660. This new dichro likes specific angles, which I have found it... challanging to perfect. I am still getting loss on the 660/635 dichro but I am tired of moving stuff. I have that particular mount on another swivel mount and will try to get the perfect angle for the 660 transmission. I have the 635 reflect fairly good. Just getting the 660 through all three dichros and onto the galvos was the hard part. then finding a place to put the 635 that didn't block the green... which I positioned to get the least loss on it's bounce, and the blue, which has also had it's dichro optimised for the least loss on the green. I can't see any blue going through it's dichro. And I did say layouts will be interesting using this pricey piece of glass...
I am edging the blue around the green mirror holder by a few mm.
The 660 I am using is the 120mW TTL Maxyz. For some reason it blanks opposite from the 635 so I cannot use the same color channel. Which means I need to solder a lead to ILDA plug for a 4th channel. Did I mention something about that 4th laser...
I still need to tweek the angles. I also see I am losing a decent amount of red off the green dichro. I wish I had a big optical table and a meter to find the best angles for each laser on each dichro... O, and a week off from work, paid, to work the angles out.