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drjohnny
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i just found out i could discharge my li-ion cr123a's by leaving them in the unplugged charger for a while.
i'm thinking it'll be ok to use li-ions in the spyder if i discharge them to 3.0v first... |
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retsam resal
Wicked Lasers God
Joined: 01 Apr 2006
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| Posted: 4/25/06, 10:14 PM Post subject: |
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Good idea. But, I guess ill sacrifice my Spyder as the guinnea pig for the full power rechargables experiment. I will let ya know if my Spyder starts to malfunction.
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drjohnny
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| Posted: 4/25/06, 10:17 PM Post subject: |
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| man, you have a lot of guts risking your $2k spyder! |
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anakata
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| Posted: 4/25/06, 10:23 PM Post subject: |
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i bet hes rich...
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retsam resal
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Hahahaha, yeah I wish. Honestly, it took me months to scrounge up dough for this thing. I am a full time student. I am too curious for my own good alot of the time. I disect anything I get my hands on..... Any way, I just put in a fresh batteries hot off the charger. They each read 4.1v. The laser frickin screeeeeeeeams. It beats out my modded aries hands down. Cuts tape in about half a sec. in one pass. Very, very hot beam. Im gonna leave it on for a while. I let you know what happens, if anything, to the Spyder.
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Spoz
Elite Laser
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| Posted: 4/25/06, 10:42 PM Post subject: |
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| Post some pictures/movies before you kill it. |
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retsam resal
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| Posted: 4/25/06, 10:46 PM Post subject: |
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Too late.........OMG!!
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anakata
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| Posted: 4/25/06, 10:54 PM Post subject: |
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please tell me you were joking and this is all funny
ill feel bad if my encouragment somehow lead to the destruction of soemthing so beautiful
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retsam resal
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I was just saying that I was too curious for my own good, and this proves it. The unit was over driven and fried the KTP crystal I assume. Well, I really asked for this so I cant be too pissed. Spyders cannot handle alot of stress. It beat my modded aries, but only briefly. The Aries is winner by default. Ill have to post the results in the Aries vs. Spyder topic.
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retsam resal
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| Posted: 4/25/06, 10:58 PM Post subject: |
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No, no joke. Ill post pics in the Aries vs. Spyder topic
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MacintoshMan
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| Posted: 4/25/06, 11:00 PM Post subject: |
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I really hope your joking about the spyder... Does wicked cover that?
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anakata
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| Posted: 4/25/06, 11:01 PM Post subject: |
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well do some tests and figure out exactly whats fried,
does any light come out at all?
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retsam resal
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Yeah, all the light comes out, there is a coherent beam along with a large protrusion off to one side and fuzzy spackling of light all over the place. Its bad.
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Athoul
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| Posted: 4/26/06, 12:22 AM Post subject: |
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Ouch man :/ I wish you had pm'd me first! I would have told you that rechargables are not to be used  The output of the Spyder without rechargables according to your pictures was already higher then your Aries, you didn't need to try to squeeze out any more. As is, the diodes are not being over driven, but they are being driven at spec so an increase in voltage will over drive them. The rechargables would be ok if they didn;t have that initial 3.9+ voltage after a fresh charge.
Though this is not supported by Wicked, perhaps it's possible to incorporate a resistor in the battery housing to reduce the voltage to about 3.2V or less. Just a thought, but definatley not something that is supported by Wicked, this is a try at your own risk kind of thing.
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TheGreatDane
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| Posted: 4/26/06, 12:27 AM Post subject: |
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| Athoul wrote: |
Ouch man :/ I wish you had pm'd me first! I would have told you that rechargables are not to be used The output of the Spyder without rechargables according to your pictures was already higher then your Aries, you didn't need to try to squeeze out any more. As is, the diodes are not being over driven, but they are being driven at spec so an increase in voltage will over drive them. The rechargables would be ok if they didn;t have that initial 3.9+ voltage after a fresh charge.
Though this is not supported by Wicked, perhaps it's possible to incorporate a resistor in the battery housing to reduce the voltage to about 3.2V or less. Just a thought, but definatley not something that is supported by Wicked, this is a try at your own risk kind of thing. |
So spyders are not to be powered by rechargeables???? (I'm soaking up all the info before I buy one in a couple of weeks)
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