{"id":488,"date":"2011-10-19T23:47:51","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T23:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/?p=488"},"modified":"2011-10-19T23:51:26","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T23:51:26","slug":"3-8mm-laser-diode-jammed-in-to-aixiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/3-8mm-laser-diode-jammed-in-to-aixiz\/","title":{"rendered":"3.8mm laser diode jammed in to aixiz 5.6mm module"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There doesn&#8217;t seem to be a laser housing available that will take a 4.8mm diode. So I was forced to jammed a 3.8mm diode in to a standard 5.6mm aixiz module. This isn&#8217;t entirely sensible, but we&#8217;re playing with burning laser ripped out of DVD drives, the train for sensible town left long ago my friend.<\/p>\n<p>I removed the 3.8mm diode from the drive but left it in it&#8217;s heatsink, I then cut away just enough of the heatsink so that it would fit in to the housing. I stuff some solder in the gaps just for good measure:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/38module1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/38module1-1024x661.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"38module1\" width=\"630\" height=\"406\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/38module1-1024x661.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/38module1-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/38module1.jpg 1216w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately the driver I&#8217;m using, an OFL144, doesn&#8217;t fit in the housing either, so I&#8217;ve clamped the whole thing in a bent piece of metal. Pretty aint it:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/38module2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/38module2-1024x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"38module2\" width=\"630\" height=\"369\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/38module2-1024x600.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/38module2-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/38module2.jpg 1887w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There doesn&#8217;t seem to be a laser housing available that will take a 4.8mm diode. So I was forced to jammed a 3.8mm diode in to a standard 5.6mm aixiz module. This isn&#8217;t entirely sensible, but we&#8217;re playing with burning laser ripped out of DVD drives, the train for sensible town left long ago my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-lasers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1RRoU-7S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions\/492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}