FS: Laserman532 OCTOMOM 8 Diode Beam Combiner!

[Laserman532]

Wow! Very nice Pat! I must admit I'm a little confused on how it works too.

Maybe...

BINGO!!! You win a baby's arm holding an apple!

[ElektroFreak]

From those perspectives you can't really see the difference in elevation of the diode mounts. Once you take that into account, it makes perfect sense.

[300EVIL]

The mounts are not in the correct alignment for output. That is a perfect picture of the mounts. Angles can be adjusted... I don't volunteer for testing, I nominate 300evil...

I'm in!

sort of adam, carefully look the holders closest to the flexmods are raised by .125" higher than the holders next to the PBS cube. The mirrors (which are custom cut to length ready to install) are flush to the top of the red mounts (closest to the pbs cube) and the mirrors are raised .125" above the surface of the red mounts closest to the flex mods. It produces two beams on top of each other for each aixis.

Beam diameters have EVERYTHING to do with "careful shimming" to get the beams edge to edge without clipping.

Current setup works with beam diameters up to .16".

Its all there

Ah! Now I see... Yeah that looks pretty damn good. I may just have to buy one of those. Looks like fun!

[Laserman532]

From those perspectives you can't really see the difference in elevation of the diode mounts. Once you take that into account, it makes perfect sense.

look carefully for the shim stock below the holders. 300evil has the pattern, the 4 diodes closest to the flexmods are raised above the 4 diodes closest to the routing mirror and PBS.

[Doc]

Fkn sweet by the way!

[Doc]

Just one ickle suggestion; if the mounting holes for the drivers were moved slightly inboard of the the main baseplate fixing screw centre line, it would allow the fitting of a dust proof enclosure over the whole assembly (plexi of course, that thing is a work of art!).

Ian

[andy_con]

2 drivers for 8 diodes! an improvement needs to be made there.

also what size beam are you expecting out of this? its going to be massive

[rfourt]

2 drivers for 8 diodes! an improvement needs to be made there.

also what size beam are you expecting out of this? its going to be massive

2 Drivers?
If im not missing something here. i think i remember correctly that DrLava told me that only one Driver would be needed to run atleast 10 x 405nm.

im very interested in this setup. altough him building one myself but not anyway near this nicely build. Great work.

ANy price idea?

[Doc]

2 drivers for 8 diodes! an improvement needs to be made there.

also what size beam are you expecting out of this? its going to be massive

Using some Lens 27's it should be possible to have a 4x4mm beam.

[andy_con]

2 Drivers?
If im not missing something here. i think i remember correctly that DrLava told me that only one Driver would be needed to run atleast 10 x 405nm.

im very interested in this setup. altough him building one myself but not anyway near this nicely build. Great work.

ANy price idea?

yeah im sure the driver will, but with no diode being the same i would rather have more drivers.

Using some Lens 27's it should be possible to have a 4x4mm beam.

i know them lens are good, but i will believe it when i see it on a setup like this