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Author: Subject: Recommendations for Geiger Counter or Scintillation Detector
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[*] posted on 15-3-2023 at 15:06



Geo Electronics on ebay has lots of interesting stuff.
I purchased a Ledlum from him years ago with alpha heads.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_dkr=1&iconV2Request=tru...

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[*] posted on 16-3-2023 at 08:49


Late January I got an SBT10A based counter from Lithuania (eBay) unfortunately it ceased functioning after a couple of days...
I first thought it was the battery since I had been playing forensics in my appartment for most of the weekend. I'll have to contact the seller and see if he cares that his unit broke down merely after days of usage.

But boy... that was scary and enlightening !

Three tritium vials put together: 92cpm 0.07µSv/h
The bottom of my bathtub: 294cpm 0.24µsV/h
"Cool" Uranium glass: 204cpm 0.16µSv/h
"Hot" Uranium glass: 6933 cpm 5.55µSv/h

The SBT10A tube is apparently very sensitive. I cant really explain the readings in my bathtub. I ended up in my bathroom looking for a place with the least background radiation. Imagine my surprise (and disbelief!) when I realized my bathtub is more radioactive than tritium vials !
I hope I can get this Geiger counter fixed easily, next place I'm taking it is 20 meters below Pierre and Marie Curie's old lab. I know they had a well where they would dump pechblende waste. I has been depoluted since but I'm curious how well the job was done :)




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