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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 8, 2016, at 6:29 PM, Anthony, Neil <<a href="mailto:nantho2@EMORY.EDU" class="">nantho2@EMORY.EDU</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">Hi Monika<br class=""><br class="">I haven't looked into the details, but thought this kind of thing would be super low cost, and fun too:<br class=""><a href="http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-Laser-Shutter/" class="">http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-Laser-Shutter/</a><br class="">With some thinking you might even be able to control it using the TTL (I believe 3V) from a serial LPT port if you have one.<br class=""><br class="">Neil<br class=""><br class="">-----Original Message-----<br class="">From: openspim-bounces@openspim.org [mailto:openspim-bounces@openspim.org] On Behalf Of Monika Pawlowska<br class="">Sent: Monday, February 08, 2016 6:36 AM<br class="">To: openspim@openspim.org<br class="">Subject: [OpenSPIM] what shutter would you recommend?<br class=""><br class="">Hi,<br class=""><br class="">I am using an argon laser that only has a manual shutter, and so I'm having problems with photobleaching. Could anybody recommend a low-cost shutter that I could use to reduce bleaching in between stacks?<br class=""><br class="">Best regards,<br class="">--<br class="">Dr Monika Pawłowska<br class="">Nencki Institute<br class="">02-093 Warsaw<br class="">Pasteura 3<br class="">Poland<br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">OpenSPIM mailing list<br class="">OpenSPIM@openspim.org<br class="">http://openspim.org/mailman/listinfo/openspim<br class=""><br class="">________________________________<br class=""><br class="">This e-mail message (including any attachments) is for the sole use of<br class="">the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged<br class="">information. If the reader of this message is not the intended<br class="">recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution<br class="">or copying of this message (including any attachments) is strictly<br class="">prohibited.<br class=""><br class="">If you have received this message in error, please contact<br class="">the sender by reply e-mail message and destroy all copies of the<br class="">original message (including attachments).<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">OpenSPIM mailing list<br class="">OpenSPIM@openspim.org<br class="">http://openspim.org/mailman/listinfo/openspim<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>