Tag: Geiger counter
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Simple Geiger-Mueller Tube driver
There are many different geiger counter boards. The most common blue board is pretty cheap to get but it has a ton of components on it. It is not very compact and without having measured it, I think the current draw makes it not efficient at all to use with batteries. My goal was to…
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Bicron Analyst Survey Meter Teardown
The Bicron Analyst ist unquestionably my favorite survey meter. I own this unit for about a half year now and I am very impressed. The deeper you go into the details of its build, the more fascinated you will be. This post is about the Bicron Analyst, not the Bicron Micro Analyst which is very…
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Homemade Professional Geiger Counter
I own several geiger counters. All of them miss a datalogger and a long lasting (rechargeable) battery. They can not be re-programmed for different tubes of for calibration and so on. That is why I have decided to build my own. The time elapsed from the start of the project to the current state is…
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Radiation Dose Datalogger
Upon a request of someone I have made a device that measures the backround radiation and transmits the measured values via USB to a PC or a Raspberry Pi. It will then be used to make a graph of the doserates and / or CPM. The unit is pretty much only a derivated type of…