RE: X-RAYS

Found a detector that works for X-Rays above 40KeV...

http://www.seintl.com/mon4.htm and there is a kit form available. Still it
seems not a lot of use for most of us unless we work on monitors all day
long...

John :-#)#

At 01:11 PM 27/05/2003 -0400, James J. Hagen wrote:

>Last year I brought home a Geiger meter from work. Found normal background
>readings at both the television and the uprights, measured in front and
>behind the tubes.
>
>James Hagen
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-vectorlist@synthcom.com
> > [mailto:owner-vectorlist@synthcom.com]On Behalf Of Christopher X.
> > Candreva
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 10:40 AM
> > To: vectorlist@synthcom.com
> > Subject: Re: VECTOR: X-RAYS
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 25 May 2003, John Robertson wrote:
> >
> > > And a better representation of the other article I posted previously:
> > >
> > > http://www.belljar.net/xray.htm
> >
> > I found this line particularly interesting:
> >
> > Before turnng on the power, make sure that you have an operating x-ray
> > monitor. This will be needed for checking tubes for output as
> > well as for
> > checking the effectiveness of the shielding. Bob uses a simple Geiger
> > counter circuit which was provided as a kit from Electronic
> > Goldmine (P.O.
> > Box 5408, Scottsdale, AZ 85261).
> >
> > If a Geiger counter will detect X-rays, then that would be a
> > fairly easy way
> > to test the monitors.
> >
> > Except I don't see that kit at Goldmine, and a Google search
> > isn't bringing
> > up anything less than $150.
> >
> > Another simple way, if you know a dentist, would be to borrow
> > some of those
> > small X-ray films he has you put in your mouth, stick them near
> > the monitor
> > for a while, and have him develop them.
> >
> > My cousin happens to be a dentist -- and I happen to have helped
> > him buy his
> > Ms. Pac Man machine, so I may try this. I asked him this weekend
> > if and how
> > he tested his machine. He said he had put films around the exam room when
> > he first opened, left them there for a few weeks, and they showed nothing.
> >
> >
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