Happy Birthday! Man, that He-Ne is awesome! I am on the lookout for Brewster version but they are so many $$$!

You had me at "polychromatic acousto-optic modulator."

@Zenodilodon

Жыл бұрын

About time I was able to shoot a white light ion through it :P

Those projector arrays are insane... I powered one up for fun, 6 must have been CRAZY lol Take a TV fresnel lens and focus that bad boy :)

59:50 Real Genius reference, niiiiiice. Ohh and Happy Birthday man!

@Zenodilodon

Жыл бұрын

What Laser Enthusiast hasn't seen that movie?! It's a timeless classic that one. Thanks for the Birthday wishes.

Bro, it really was Great having you visit! You're always welcome to visit again if time allows otherwise, i'll see you next time i visit the Waukesha area! (Best lighting B-Day ever!)

Hey, Happy birthday man! Looks like a fun trip.

@Zenodilodon

Жыл бұрын

It was a whole week of fun, I have to make it out to the west coast to see you and other laserists I know. So many people I have to visit in my life.

LOL "do not pass go do not collect $200" im using that

Miss you, my dear brother, and I can't wait to see you again

@Zenodilodon

Жыл бұрын

I'll get over to your place again one of these days, months, years... I have been up to my eyeballs in tasks. So many things are remaining ignored at this point >.

This vid is right up my alley, cheers!

@Zenodilodon

Жыл бұрын

You must love lumens too! Thanks for dropping by and watching.

Happy Birthday Dude!

@Zenodilodon

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Sweet vid Z happy birthdays!

@Zenodilodon

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Wow, your video was over 90 minutes long! Very entertaining, it felt like 30 minutes. Happy birthday by the way!

@Zenodilodon

Жыл бұрын

The trip was a week long and it also somehow felt like 30 mins hahaha, that's the trouble with fun times! Thanks!

Cool videos. 13:00 that's the "real" color. It's hard for him to focus on it for the same reasons blue LEDs appear weird - very few cones in the retina able to detect this wavelength, low spatial resolution. I think your finger is white because YOU are fluorescing! I will never understand the black magic of putting magnets along the side of a HeNe tube to suppress the IR lines.... All those rocks you found are some variant of biogenic calcite, typically Mn 2+ is the fluorescence / phosphorescence activator species. Can you put links to the other guy's channels in the description? If you are coming to Western NY for some reason in the future lmk and I'll give you a tour of the 60 terawatt OMEGA and 2 petawatt OMEGA EP lasers.

congratulations and a happy birthday

@Zenodilodon

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I hope all is well on your end.

@martijn4740

Жыл бұрын

@@Zenodilodon thanks all is great almost starting summer holliday

Mmmmmm...... a morning of Zen & friends. Nothing else like it. Thanks for sharing. Lovely aunt. Does she have a boyfriend? She could spin my yarn any day.😎

@Zenodilodon

Жыл бұрын

The adventure was the best expenditure of fossil fuels I have done, glad you enjoyed the recap. Yes, my aunt is quite the women isn't she! She is married but I am sure she'd get a laugh out of your comment.

@TheOleHermit

Жыл бұрын

@@Zenodilodon lol! Darn! Story of my life. All the best ones were already taken. Lucky uncle. But, just kiddin', of course. Thought she might get a giggle out of it.. Mission accomplished.😎

Cool video and happy late birthday man! I'm new to your channel and came here from JoinTheTechnicians. I was wondering if you could answer some questions on the High Voltage Wand you made. I am trying to build one myself and am having trouble tracing down the correct fast diodes and choke to use. I've seen that a 50uH choke is good for larger ZVS drivers but your inductor looks smaller on the video and of course I would like everything to be as compact as possible. The diode I currently have chosen is an 8A 40V SBD fast switch based on the peak tank voltage, but I am suspecting this can be sized down too in current specs. Thanks for any help!

@Zenodilodon

Жыл бұрын

I wasn't the main developer of the wand, that was more so my friend. We had to often wind the inductor choke and transformers ourselves. This can get extremely tricky to optimize. I generally go for something like the inductors from multi-phase DC-DC converters on motherboards and have good luck. Not having an inductance meter I can't measure those :/ You selected diodes with a pretty high current rating, this is surprising as they are more or less just used for signal switching in a ZVS. I did a video on ZVS configurations and testing what changes what, that is on my YT, it's 3 hours of semi-helpful nonsense but it's the extent of my experience on the matter if I may be honest. There is another circuit that JP my friend developed and it's given us better performance overall. If you contact me through email I will send over that schema. I wish I could help more, it's not exactly my specialty of a subject though. Let me know if there is anything else I could possibly help nail down, you can also contact JP on his new page Exotic Propulsion kzread.info/dron/q-59pQr56IrKHPXv63hRcQ.html

@ginnis_14

Жыл бұрын

@@Zenodilodon I may or may not wind my own. It depends on the inductance needed. If it needs like 50uH I wont be able to get that out of winding my own using the cores I have that are small enough and wire large enough for primary circuit currents. Looking at the circuit schematic again I was misunderstanding it. I was under the impression that the fast switching diodes were for the primary circuit, but now I see it just deals with the signal side. I will shoot you an email.

Nice ambience ! It is great that you brought up the subject of rock test @01:33:00 because I have an idea in this domain and I want your opinion. The principle is to block completely the light on the camera lens then generate a pulse of light then cover the light source then immediately uncover the camera lens. Repeat this sequence rapidly . This can be done with a conveniently designed disk which rotates rapidly in front of the couple : camera lens + light source. With this setup the camera will not be dazzled with all the light and it will see only the fluorescent part. If this idea is not clear let me know and I will make an illustration. I have this idea a long time ago and I feel that it would be an interesting tool to see not only the fluorescence of rocks but also the reaction to light of any object.

@Zenodilodon

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Yes you could do this but you may need a global shutter for best effect. You could also use the LCD panels from an auto darkening welding helmet too. For light that is past 370nm you can place a vis block, UV pass filter which will knock out the unwanted visible secondary output bands. Oh hey, I bet you could hack a welding helmet with various flashing UV lights and get a cool UV viewing wearable.

@Muonium1

Жыл бұрын

It will work. You are essentially reinventing a modern version of the phosphoroscope of the 19th century!

@visualchallenge2413

Жыл бұрын

@@Muonium1 Thanks ! it is not the first time I rediscover already existing ideas ! the good side of it is that I don't have to build it :)

@visualchallenge2413

Жыл бұрын

@@Zenodilodon The idea exists already as mentioned by Muonium (see comment above).

😎😅👍

Wisconsin, the state nobody can ever remember! Does the fog not get into equipment l, I hope it doesn't cause problems (that photonic induction fellow doesn't live too far from me) There's a camera with yellow ability? Woaw, which 🤣 my brain lately has been telling me yellow doesn't exist Next birthday you'll have to come pond side! I wanted to make a tunable laser, sadly my green module is destroyeddddd (still saw the beam!) Which is the crystal that converts infrared into green? I want to mess with one

@Zenodilodon

Жыл бұрын

Yup, there are quad color CCDs but they are much rarer.Yellow does exist, it's composition colors like pink or brown which don't exist in a single band alone. The crystals are ND:YAG/ND:YVO4 and a second harmonic crystal which can be KTP, LBO, etc. The crystals need to be properly coated, pumped, aligned, and for best results temp stabilized.

@phonotical

Жыл бұрын

@@Zenodilodon play I think I'll skip the crystal part 😅 if I can't use it in my hand then it's top complex for me! I liked the beach trek, I thought of doing it here, now I know I'd need the right type of light too! Happy you had a gneiss time! 🤣

I had to swap over to view this on my browser rather than in-application, so much ads!

@Zenodilodon

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, but my friendship is free though :P

@phonotical

Жыл бұрын

@@Zenodilodon ❤️

Hlo sir how to make CD and DVD laser diode into invisible Infrared laser powerful burning laser

Are you the guy from join the technicians?

@Zenodilodon

Жыл бұрын

Yup, sadly JP and I went towards our own goals a bit more. He has gotten more devoted to his antigravitics woo and I went deeper into laser/optical engineering.

@theguywiththeglass300

Жыл бұрын

@@Zenodilodon is there any chance you guys might meet again and review the channel?

@Zenodilodon

Жыл бұрын

@@theguywiththeglass300 Join The Technicians is a dead channel. I can barely get him to return my calls TBH. I'll be holding the fort here on my channel, he did make a new one himself as well. kzread.info/dron/q-59pQr56IrKHPXv63hRcQ.html

@theguywiththeglass300

Жыл бұрын

@@Zenodilodon alright well its nice to at least have an answer

@Zenodilodon

Жыл бұрын

@@theguywiththeglass300 That it sure can be. I try to keep up with stuff as best as I can.

any reason why you arent at university? I like your personality a lot :-)

@Zenodilodon

Жыл бұрын

I'd be terrible at university lol, Between my ADHD and general do what I am going to do mindset I would distract the class and not do homework. I'm not about to waste their time. I think I'll give the higher education the maverick's go and see what happens! Thanks for the comment and I am glad you enjoyed the video!

@Suesses-Einhorn

Жыл бұрын

@@Zenodilodon I think you would waste YOUR time, because you would be pressed in a system which doesn't fit you. You need to learn at your own, stuff thats most interesting to you, at the right time, you will be much better of with it :-> There are people who doesn't have any interesting things to learn, they are bored, i feel pity for them. Maybe they had too much school :-> Or they don't have any "ADHS". I think you are very healthy, more healthy than normal people.

@Zenodilodon

Жыл бұрын

@@Suesses-Einhorn Quite possibly, At this point I know enough to figure out what mountain to climb to move forward in my own research. My book collection contains some decently heavy reading and the best part is none of them need to be returned. Currently I am doing pretty well though I have an unquenchable thirst to know and do more. I don't understand how anyone can be bored because holy heck is reality astonishing and amazing. As far as mental health, well I have been around along enough to know I am an idiot, been through enough to appreciate the small things without a disaster happening, and a solid grip on self-actualization. From what I can tell it's up to me to make the most of what I can wisely. Thanks for letting me know I cleared your bar of approval lol :P

@Suesses-Einhorn

Жыл бұрын

@@Zenodilodon thanks for your reply :-D

Hello, could you make a Discord Server?

@Zenodilodon

Жыл бұрын

I do have one, but it's completely dead because we are either in a pro laser/lighting server or all in StyroPyro's. You can send a message/add me Zenodilodon#8271