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thehesiod Posted - 02/27/2019 : 23:23:02
So I just got my new counter, and at first things seemed good. Was getting ~20 CPM background, some tiles where hitting 35. The smoke detector was ~50. So I had it against a green bag of Late July Jalapeno Lime chips, and it was hovering around 30, and then all of a sudden the things starts going crazy and gets up to 1400 CPM and everything is beeping. See video: https://photos.app.goo.gl/k68Hhc4GTwSJ6vrQ7

I was really stating to freak out. What's weird is that I returned it back to that tile that was 35 and it started to die down to ~50.

Is this a bad sensor or do I have some kind of radiation issue in my place?

freaked out
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EmfDev Posted - 03/01/2019 : 09:31:26
It was a chance. It wasn't because of the bags of chips. It probably just a noise from the tube.
thehesiod Posted - 02/28/2019 : 20:52:10
so I reset it to factory settings, and now it's not going crazy with that same bag of chips, strange.
thehesiod Posted - 02/28/2019 : 17:00:04
cool, can't wait to get the replacement. I was reading that the tube needs to be periodically quenched, perhaps that's the part that's not working?
EmfDev Posted - 02/28/2019 : 13:08:46
Yeah looks like a tube issue. They shouldn't go crazy like that.
thehesiod Posted - 02/28/2019 : 12:56:14
I was in fact able to reproduce it twice.

If I set it against the bag like in the video after resetting it, it reads normal, around 50 ish. Then after a minute or so it goes off the chart like in the video.

I contacted support and they said they'd exchange it, lets see if it happens again with a replaced unit
EmfDev Posted - 02/28/2019 : 09:55:41
If you can repeat the reading few times, then it could be real reading. But if it only happened once, it could be a tube issue.

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