{"id":1701,"date":"2009-06-30T20:54:32","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T00:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=1701"},"modified":"2009-06-30T20:54:32","modified_gmt":"2009-07-01T00:54:32","slug":"this-laser-does-not-lase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/30\/this-laser-does-not-lase\/","title":{"rendered":"This Laser Does Not Lase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=1>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"black\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/acquired_stuff\/IMG_3872.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/83688-2\/IMG_3872.jpg\" height=427 width=640 border=0 title=\"Front of a Spectra Physics 060-4 laser tube.\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I acquired a Spectra Physics 155 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Laser\">laser<\/a>, which contains a 060-4 Helium Neon (HeNe) laser tube. Unfortunately, it doesn&#8217;t work. I have a feeling that I&#8217;ll be throwing it away. The power supply seems okay, although I don&#8217;t have the required power resistors to properly test it. I suspect that air leaked into the tube and now it doesn&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a couple more photos of the tube: <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/acquired_stuff\/IMG_3876.jpg.html\">Front (Alt. Angle)<\/a> &middot; <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/acquired_stuff\/IMG_3873.jpg.html\">Model Number Sticker<\/a> &middot; <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/acquired_stuff\/IMG_3878.jpg.html\">Rear<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I acquired a Spectra Physics 155 laser, which contains a 060-4 Helium Neon (HeNe) laser tube. Unfortunately, it doesn&#8217;t work. I have a feeling&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/30\/this-laser-does-not-lase\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This Laser Does Not Lase<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acquired-things","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1702,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701\/revisions\/1702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}