Opportunity knocks, or perhaps "ticks"

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VoodooMojo

Joined Nov 28, 2009
505
now is the time for entrepreneuring spirit to start mass producing Geiger Counters/Radiation Detectors.
Anybody got good proven design schematics? ;)
 

Wendy

Joined Mar 24, 2008
23,429
I'd like to find a solid state equivalent to a geiger tube myself. I have some other projects I'd like to try out sometime.
 

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VoodooMojo

Joined Nov 28, 2009
505
I just did a search for "geiger counter" on ebay.
the bid counts are getting interesting.
A couple weeks ago you could not give the things away!
 

beenthere

Joined Apr 20, 2004
15,819
If somebody gets a GC with a messed up adjustment that causes a very high count, watch out for heavy traffic over the Sierras! Without a cal sticker, you have no idea of what and how much you are registering. The window in the tube can be transparent to only gammas, or let you count alphas.

I suspect most people would just hear some clicks and start running.
 

retched

Joined Dec 5, 2009
5,207
I suspect most people would just hear some clicks and start running.
I tell you what! If I turned one on and it started "talking" I would be rather alarmed at first. Especially if there were no test sample around.

Calibration would likely be the culprit, but I am expecting the worst. ;)
 

Kermit2

Joined Feb 5, 2010
4,162
Hold a banana up to one and see what it tells ya! :)

examine a piece of pink granite in the courthouse downtown, and try not gasp!

Radiation is EVERYWHERE. THere is No pLace to hIDe. BWAHAHAHahahahaa!

;)
 
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