Epic CVL Projector Build Thread

[clandestiny]

Your missing the OC eh? interesting, - is the front window still on the tube ? or are you at air?

[Xytrell]

I just would have thought that the potential temperature of tens of Watts of pulsed CVL from a few inches would have led to the carbon burning or being gradually vaporised and eroded through.

But it's more or less for emergency purposes only, right?

[Laserman532]

I have this to contribute to your project if it will be of any help. Is this the kind of regulator you need

and you can borrow what is in the other picture after FLEM.

[clandestiny]

and you can borrow what is in the other picture after FLEM.

Ha haaaa, ha ha ha ha ha haaaa, excellent

[Laser Ben]

Wow! That is going to be a hell of a projector! Perhaps you could split up the beam and go to two pairs of scanners!

I think he needs a very low pressure regulator Pat.

[madgadget]

I found this...

Pink Floyd are using two Model ACL-45 lasers. The laser heads are 2.526 meters (99.4") long by 28.2 cm (11.1") by 37.0 cm (14.6") and weigh 145 Kg (651 lbs.); the power supply units are 67.5 cm (26.6") by 65.2 cm (25.7") by 75.9 cm (29.8") high (including the wheels) and weighs 230 Kg (506 lbs.) These units give 45 watts of laser output each from only about 7Kw of electrical power. This output is split between the green and yellow lines at about a 1.5 to 1 ratio. The dye laser operates at about 30% efficiency to give up to 15 watts of red.

OMG thats utterly insane hahaha!!!! Respect is due for such a crazy project like that...

[mixedgas]

Nice project.

Won't carbon burn though when used as a shutter? I'd have though ceramic would have been the way to go.

I got him a block of pyrolytic graphite. Makes great beam stops for pulsed lasers. Good heat conductor and very nicely black. However it is a pain in the neck to cut because it is such a lubricant. Its one of the few things you can melt glass in. It took five minutes with a sawz-all to cut that off the main block.

I gotta back to changing the bulb in my spectrophometer.

I want to see the look on Amanda's face when she sells him that big chunk of dichro....

Steve

[300EVIL]

"The laser heads are 2.526 meters (99.4") long by 28.2 cm (11.1") by 37.0 cm (14.6") and weigh 145 Kg (651 lbs.)"

Crikey! I would have never guessed it weighed that much when Platinum and I lifted it up to put in the van. Guess I'm stronger than I thought!

[White-Light]

"The laser heads are 2.526 meters (99.4") long by 28.2 cm (11.1") by 37.0 cm (14.6") and weigh 145 Kg (651 lbs.)"

Crikey! I would have never guessed it weighed that much when Platinum and I lifted it up to put in the van. Guess I'm stronger than I thought!

Isn't it 2.2lbs to a KG in which case it would be 319lbs.

Still no mean feat.

[madgadget]

The figures did seem a bit off, but I didn't really notice as I work in KG lol