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Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Cheap UV laser?

2005-10-18 by Alan King

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

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