Uploaded October 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Selling a diode laser is a marketeer's dream. No cooling water, no beam alignment, no need to understand lenses, just buy it, build it and use it. It's as simple to use as a pencil. Hmm.... without creative and artistic skills, what can you do with a pencil? That's where the marketing challenge kicks in. With lots of professionally produced "items you can make" and copious techno lies and truth stetching, a naive entrant to laser technology can easily be parted from his cash.
I am not one of those "dream chasers". I bought this 40 watt head knowing that the specification and marketing BS was but a shadow of the true capabilities of the unit. I feel confident that despite it's failure to meet specifications in many key areas, I will be able to decode it's performance to extract maximum potential. Decoding means looking at all performance aspects in great detail and that is the aim of all following sessions
Spot size is a massive marketing lie that resides in the imagination rather than reality. So let's demonstrate that there is no such thing as a fixed spot size.
Selling a diode laser is a marketeer's dream. No cooling water, no beam alignment, no need to understand lenses, just buy it, build it and use it. It's as simple to use as a pencil. Hmm.... without creative and artistic skills, what can you do with a pencil? That's where the marketing challenge kicks in. With lots of professionally produced "items you can make" and copious techno lies and truth stetching, a naive entrant to laser technology can easily be parted from his cash.
I am not one of those "dream chasers". I bought this 40 watt head knowing that the specification and marketing BS was but a shadow of the true capabilities of the unit. I feel confident that despite it's failure to meet specifications in many key areas, I will be able to decode it's performance to extract maximum potential. Decoding means looking at all performance aspects in great detail and that is the aim of all following sessions
Spot size is a massive marketing lie that resides in the imagination rather than reality. So let's demonstrate that there is no such thing as a fixed spot size.
