Is there any good reason why I shouldn’t make a gamma ray spectrometer from scratch? I mean, how hard could it be?
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Mark J. Blair
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That wasn’t a rhetorical question, by the way. How hard could it be?
@pixel Just a little bit. Maybe like 1E-6 fishy.
Indecision collapses
Pre-ordered the AlphaHound AB+G
Now the wait begins
Pre-ordered the AlphaHound AB+G
Now the wait begins
@revengeday @syndicate Ok, fine, I'll impulse-buy it.
Oh, neat. After leaving the unit turned on for a while, it began emitting bursts of clicks with increasing frequency. There's a faint orange glow inside the tube. It still doesn't respond to known-spicy items which it previously had strong opinions about.
@kimmy Needs a trigger warning spoiler! 🤣
I see some similar looking GM tubes on eBay from assorted eastern European countries, but priced around 1/3 the cost of a new mid-range RadiaCode scintillation detector.
I don't have the gumption to debug the Geiger counter more this weekend (I'm in the middle of a cold), but I think the most reasonable next step would be to remove the GM tube and see if it shows any sensitivity in a kludgy bench setup with my old HP 711A 0-500VDC power supply.
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