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Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Cheap UV laser?

From: Alan King <alan@...>
Date: 2005-10-18

cristian wrote:

>It was me, Stevens. Here you are the calculations:
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I think he was talking past calculations for LEDs maybe, not your
laser calcs..

>My calculation is like this:
>For a board of 10x16 cm=160 cm2.
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But what market have you seen a useful low power UV laser used in?
High power cutting makes sense, low power has pretty low usefullness.
Low power is generally much cheaper with bulbs, and what might use a
lower power UV like a 3d prototyping machine is still a fairly expensive
niche product. Might be out there but I haven't seen much below $500ish
used cutting lasers for UV..

Alan