I was building a laser and I was opening a laptop DVD rw drive. I've done this before but his time instead of finding. A 3 pin diode, I found a 12 pin one.
Would the power be any different assuming it's the same read write speed? Also what's the wire up like?
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I gutted a cd burner that had died of mine. It had one of these in it.
It seams to have 3 emitters in it, only one seams to be usable tho.
What i think you have got on your hands is something similar to this.
In this case the other pins are passive. you can apply power to them, but there will be no return, they are not designed to emit light, but are photosensors. at least the one i have holds up to that assumption.
On any note, with a driver i can get around 300uW out of it max, than mine begins to over drive.
Dylan Sukha wrote:
I was building a laser and I was opening a laptop DVD rw drive. I've done this before but his time instead of finding. A 3 pin diode, I found a 12 pin one. Would the power be any different assuming…
I gutted a cd burner that had died of mine. It had one of these in it.
It seams to have 3 emitters in it, only one seams to be usable tho.
What i think you have got on your hands is something similar to this.
In this case the other pins are passive. you can apply power to them, but there will be no return, they are not designed to emit light, but are photosensors. at least the one i have holds up to that assumption.
On any note, with a driver i can get around 300uW out of it max, than mine begins to over drive.
Dylan Sukha wrote:
I was building a laser and I was opening a laptop DVD rw drive. I've done this before but his time instead of finding. A 3 pin diode, I found a 12 pin one. Would the power be any different assuming…
