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Gee, you just had to stress test it didn't you. Too big to roll over it, hmm, opps knocked it to the floor...

Glad to see it is still working. Maybe in a warmer room it has problems with running all the time. Could be you are shortening the run time.
 
Craig,

They probably sent you 2 cause they'd a had a bit of a look around your site and realised "gee, this guy is going to drop it and stuff, stomp on it....... give it a real test, damn.... better send him 2" lol " leave it on for 60 hrs" lol. Is it still kicking on craig or have you decided to giver her a little rest?
 
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DaFiend said:
Craig,

They probably sent you 2 cause they'd a had a bit of a look around your site and realised "gee, this guy is going to drop it and stuff, stomp on it....... give it a real test, damn.... better send him 2" lol " leave it on for 60 hrs" lol. Is it still kicking on craig or have you decided to giver her a little rest?

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It's *still* on; probably won't give the poor thing a rest until at least tomorrow.

I tend not to abuse lamps and other horse puckey that's designed to be put somewhere and then not {vulgar term for having had intercourse} with; perhaps they visited several pages about flashlights where I stomp on them, violently throw them, drown them in the toliet, slam them against a steel rod, run over them, etc. and did not visit web pages about lamps and laser products where I don't abuse them the same way. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
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PhotonWrangler said:
Cool. I wonder if the 4-hour spec is for the lasers or the LEDs?

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Both the LEDs (except for the violet one) and the diode lasers should have lifetimes of 50,000 hours or more, unless one, the other, or both are significantly overdriven.
Let's have a look at those current consumption values; I should be able to determine the current draw of the LEDs anyway...BRB...ok, the LEDs use ~43.3mA apiece.
So they are overdriven, but not horribly so.
That violet LED will whirl down the {vulgar term for toliet} pretty quickly, but the blue ones ought to last for at least several thosand hours before they become visibly dimmer.
 
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The_LED_Museum said:
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PhotonWrangler said:
Cool. I wonder if the 4-hour spec is for the lasers or the LEDs?

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Both the LEDs (except for the violet one) and the diode lasers should have lifetimes of 50,000 hours or more, unless one, the other, or both are significantly overdriven.
Let's have a look at those current consumption values; I should be able to determine the current draw of the LEDs anyway...BRB...ok, the LEDs use ~43.3mA apiece.
So they are overdriven, but not horribly so.
That violet LED will whirl down the {vulgar term for toliet} pretty quickly, but the blue ones ought to last for at least several thosand hours before they become visibly dimmer.

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Hmm... yeah, I agree that they're a little overdriven. Are they heatsinked? I wonder where the threshold for thermal runaway is for a non-heatsinked 5mm LED that's a little overdriven.

BTW, remember that 110v color-changing LED with the C-7 base? I was playing with a new style of C7 LED Christmas lights today, so I thought "hmm, must have internal regulation..." So like an idiot, I swapped one for a nearby string of regular C7 lights, and -BANG-
... a non-passive end-of-life characteristic. Or a noise-emitting diode (NED). /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif
 
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Here's the entire update I posted to my website this morning:

UPDATE: 11-08-04
Two updates to report this morning...first, the Laserpod has been left on for ~60 hours now, and I still have no failures or malfunctions to report...second, I somehow managed to knock the silly thing to the floor from a ~30" height, and did not cause it to fail or screw up. Still looks and works like the day I took it out of the box and plugged it in.
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I'll post another update tomorrow morning, then turn it off for awhile and give it a rest. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
Here's today's update:

UPDATE: 11-09-04
The Laserpod has been left on for ~84 hours now, and I think I can shut it off for awhile and let it rest. Let's take care of that right now...BRB...there, done.
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I still have no failures or malfunctions to report...
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Unless something unfortunate happens, I think we're looking at a Trophy Case placement here. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbsup.gif
 
Well, will maybe try to buy one at the start of the new year, think this is something I need to have a look at and pick apart for review purposes as well. Can't afford one right now though!

Thanks for the heads up!
 
Well, I typically don't try to disembowel products that I review. Now that I no longer have a lot of tools (my toolbox got left behind when I moved last month), I'm even less able to disassemble things. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/jpshakehead.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif
 
Hmmmm. Imagine that baby with a a few greenies tossed in there too.

Shame about the cost. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/broke.gif
 
Yep, the cost is too high. Compare this to other "light show" type devices. For example the things you would find in Spencer gifts. Most of those are around $40.
 
I decided to award the Laserpod 4 1/2 stars and add it to The Trophy Case on my website.
Yes, I apply final ratings to laser products a lot more quickly than I do for flashlights.

The very short expected lifetime of the violet LED is what knocked that last half a star off.

I emailed for the warranty information, and I'm sure it's at least 90 days, but more probably 1 year.
 
What is the expected lifetime? Is that to 50%?

The LED isn't replaceable, so we need to look at unit cost here. Which is high.

Lets see, if you ran it four hours each night on the weekend, you get 4x2x52=416 hours a week. So ten years at that rate would be 4160 hours. So if it can last 5000 hours then I would be OK with it. It would be a lot better if you could replace the LED, easily.
 
The expected halflife (to 50% intensity) of the violet LED driven at 40mA-45mA should be not much more than a couple of hundred hours.
Violet LEDs don't last very long anyway, even when they're driven within specifications, so when they're overdriven, their already short device halflife will be even shorter.

The blue LEDs (est. wavelength 470nm) should last considerably longer even when overdriven like this. No fewer than quite a few thousand hours anyway.
Just a guess here; I have no documentation with which to verify this.
 
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The_LED_Museum said:

I emailed for the warranty information, and I'm sure it's at least 90 days, but more probably 1 year.

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The Laserpod is guaranteed for 12 months from date of purchase.

Should any Laserpod become faulty in that time, then once contacted, we send a new replacement along with return postage so that you can send the faulty one back to us.
"At No Cost to You."

This helps us determine what the faults may be and improve upon the design when needed.

Hope that helps,

Doc
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Welcome to CPF. You will find we talk about flashlights the most here, but we also talk about Glow in the dark, lasers, and even knives amoung other things.

Hope you stay a while.

The laser pod looks great, really cool. Too pricey for me though. To give an idea though, I do have a plasma globe, a plasma tube, a huge triangle shaped lava lamp, a blue ball that has cloud shapes move accross it (like the shampoo effect), laser effect (lissajoules (SP?)), some candle light boxes (like with lenses, etc.), and some other light effects.
 
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GlowGadgets said:
The Laserpod is guaranteed for 12 months from date of purchase...

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Thank you very much for the information!!! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/happy14.gif
I'll go update my Laserpod evaluation web page at once!!! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

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There, done!!! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
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