Just to answer the doctor: how am i going to put it back together ?
I won't !
Ok, i can reveal now what i tried. This was a 2.4W red module from RGB lasersystems.
When i bought it i didn't know JACK about lasers, i was told it was 600mW of 635.
I thought this was really good and high power.
The beams where relatively fat but not real real bad and good visible.
I felt a bit taken by the fact that after i bought it they told me it could do way more than 600 in "the good old days" like 1.8W orso.... basically i felt pushed over....buying of dying lasers.
(This was not from RGB lasersystems directly let me put that straight, those guys gave me a lot of info on how they built lasers so don't get me wrong, it was a company in Holland...)
I decided to take it apart and replace the 8 c-mounts for 8 DVD burner diodes to get like 1.6W or more out after optics. But the lenses are for multimode diodes and the dvd burner diodes are single mode i thought. At least i wasn't able to focus the open cans with those lenses.
At PLS in Frankfurt i talked to the nice fella's of RGB and they told me all this stuff.
I will now send them some pictures of the 8 channel driver and the promised to send me details on what each pot does (so i can use this 8 channel driver plus tec) in future projects.
The 2 pcb's are a bit big, but work.... and i might be able to split them up in a 4 channel with tec and a 4 channel without tec ;-)
So i basically demolished a slightly underpowered but working red laser ;-(
But do have some cool optics, i still want to try and place 8 Aixiz mounts with glass lenses in front of them and experiment, all the mirrors seem to be spot welded on the baseplate.
So if i manage to shine in 8 diodes after removing the multimode lenses i will have some kind of setup.
At this moment i will finish my 'selfbuilt' hobby red with 4 diodes first (really am scared if i will be able to align it....so keep pushin' it forward , tomorrow i will spent some time on it.
After that i want to built a CNC machine and finish the lifting of my red and green with 2 mm in my projector to match the blue to be perfect aligned for the UKLEM meeting ;-)
Thanks anyone who responded, i might take some pictures of the parts that will be on the shelf for the next hobby project ;-)
I didn't fail !
I just found out 10,000 ways that didn't work.