Diodes (LEDs) from Electronics! Something else to sell!

Hey just a heads up, when ever you are scrapping certain electronics such as Projectors or Computers/Laptops that contain DVD Burners and Blu-Ray Burners (Not CD Burners), if you are patient enough to take the time to remove the LED/Diode from them, they sell on ebay! One of my hobbies is Lasers - not the little red dot kind, which usually rate at about 5mw. The 2 watt kind that burn things A popular method of obtaining the Diodes that are used in Handheld/Portable Lasers is "murdering" a projector, DVD/Blu-Ray Burner, or a few other specialty items that contain them.

You don't need to actually dissect the diode, it's much more delicate and fragile like that. You can either sell the whole Burner drive, or just the middle chunk that contains it. The Burner drives contain TWO diodes, one for reading, one for writing. The reading one is NOT what people are after - it uses Infared, usually 800 nm + range. These are very dangerous and largely avoided (despite how many IR Lasers are for sale....) because not only are they powerful enough to permanently blind people with just a quick flash, but you CANNOT see the light - you do not even realise you are blinding yourself until it is too late. The only way to really tell them apart (aside from experience) is to atatch them to an independent power supply, which is a pain. So just sell the whole chunk that contains them. You reduce your risk of damaging them too.



Do an Ebay search on Blu-Ray / DVD Burner Diode to see how they are selling, they go up and down.