Hello, beware the galvnometer contains radium paint. It is clearly visible on the value points and on the needle. Do not breathe the dust of this painting. Have a nice day ;)
An interesting and sturdy piece of tech, definitely well designed and built. It uses high reliability military electrolytics - C11, C15 etc. Worth restoring IMO. You could make a plugin piezo speaker to use with this counter instead of the headphone.
Thats a nice heavy duty die cast aluminium case. Unusual looking components, solid looking. I also thought that big TO3 cased transistor was the main part in an oscillator to provide a high voltage. NPN perhaps?
In the RBGT-62, all 3 transistors are actually PNP. For some reason, the oldest transistors were always PNP. But the newer version RBGT-62A contains 1x PNP and 3x NPN.
Great explanation . This device was very interesting . I have one geiger counter made by Radiometer Copenhagen but it was a simple Alpha/Beta particle counter , with a simple chamber made by a golden wire into a large rounded box . I collect some device used into Hospitals about 50 years ago and more. Ur geiger tube was very strange and it's a ugly new thing for me.
Is there a schematic online anywhere for your geiger tube tester? I like the outer casing.... it sounds like a cow-bell. Interesting construction on the inside. It's somewhere in between point-to-point construction and PCB.
Interesting system that three way level adjustent. I have vintage Finnish Wallac Geiger counter which has similar battery compartment and as robust construction but it has a handle where to carry it and it has a speaker as well. I have a small radioactive mineral which I use when coarse calibrating these and checking if they are working. I remember that it has Mullard tube. I wonder if your instrument has Phosphorescent paint as it looks similar. Have you measured the scale? It deteriorates quite fast and the radiation may be small now.
This one doesn't have any handle because soldiers used to carry it in a leather case. (it originally came with a case). This one has a phosphorescent scale, but it's not radioactive. It glows just for some time after exposed to light. There's no Ra in it.
I am trying to repair an rbgt-62a. The output voltage is too low and the needle can't reach K.N. I tried moving the black circular potentiometer beside the voltage stabilizer tube. It moved the needle past K.N but the humming sound stayed at the same volume.
It can be a lot of things. Bad battery or poor battery contacts. Poor contact in a pot or switch. It can be damaged transisor in the inverter or damaged diode. It can be faulty regulation tube (the glow voltage regulator). Don't measure this voltage with multimeter, it will make the voltage go lower. The internal resistance of the inverter is very high. The voltage should be 400V, but the voltmeter won't show this. If the needle is at K.N., the voltage is ok.
"This one would be still working if the Geiger tube wasn't stolen from this one." This one sounded really funny for some reason. Also, how sensitive such tools are? Will they react to direct sunlight, or radon in the basement?
This doesn't react to sunlight. The tube is made of metal and so the visible / IR / UV light can't get in. The STS-5 tube is sensitive to gamma and beta. I have never tried to detect radon. Maybe an alpha sensitive tube would be needed. Maybe a ionisating chamber would be better. I'm also not sure if the level of radon radiation would be detectable. It is possible that for proper detection you need to absorb the radon (or likely some elements in its decay chain) into some material (carbon?) and then measure the material (carbon).
Well, sun emits some gamma (tiny amounts, to be honest, more with flares), but i guess it's not enough for most tools to notice. Radon, while relatively abundant, have alpha decay, so it basically directly ionizes surrounding air without any noticeable penetration - so, by measuring ionization levels radon amounts can be measured indirectly. And ionization levels can be measured with some kind of magnetic field geterator which will force charged particles from recombining by pulling them in opposite directions - towards some kind of ion detector, probably just grounded probe with ampermeter, and quite possibly some amplifiers in between. But then, noises will most likely just obliterate currents caused by charged particle movement. I guess some other ion detector is needed.
Those are uranium glass balls/marbles/beads. Those are legally sold and by law they contain less than 1% of uranium, but usually just about 0.1 or 0.2%. They are a safe Geiger counter test source :).
I think nothing happens if you put that probe into ~220V power outlet - it is just a capacitor filled with inert gas and working with 450V so 220 AC should do no harm to it. On the other hand what happen if you put finger in that probe socket ? :)
The headphone plug is simmilar to a mains plug, not the probe plug. The probe socket has 400VDC in it, but it is hard to put a finger into it and there's a very high value resistor in series (I think 10M) anyway. This would only result in 0.04mA through your body. You wont even notice such current.
What if electroBOOM and diodegonewild made a calibration
Collaboration actually
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*collaboration
More saaaaaaaalt, probably, xDD
Is there anything this guy doesn't know???!!! Genius and brilliant to watch. Uranium glass marbles though...BLOODY HELL!!!
Damn im learning a lot with ur videos...
Hello, beware the galvnometer contains radium paint. It is clearly visible on the value points and on the needle. Do not breathe the dust of this painting. Have a nice day ;)
Thank you for sharing this. Love this
An interesting and sturdy piece of tech, definitely well designed and built. It uses high reliability military electrolytics - C11, C15 etc. Worth restoring IMO. You could make a plugin piezo speaker to use with this counter instead of the headphone.
mmmm-hmm.......i would not mind getting my hands on that!
i love that old-school tech!!!
Thats a nice heavy duty die cast aluminium case.
Unusual looking components, solid looking.
I also thought that big TO3 cased transistor was the main part in an oscillator to provide a high voltage.
NPN perhaps?
In the RBGT-62, all 3 transistors are actually PNP. For some reason, the oldest transistors were always PNP. But the newer version RBGT-62A contains 1x PNP and 3x NPN.
You are goood taecher i love your electronic teaching
Beautiful object !
Great explanation . This device was very interesting . I have one geiger counter made by Radiometer Copenhagen but it was a simple Alpha/Beta particle counter , with a simple chamber made by a golden wire into a large rounded box . I collect some device used into Hospitals about 50 years ago and more.
Ur geiger tube was very strange and it's a ugly new thing for me.
Is there a schematic online anywhere for your geiger tube tester?
I like the outer casing.... it sounds like a cow-bell. Interesting construction on the inside. It's somewhere in between point-to-point construction and PCB.
This is that device I have seen in Godzilla movie when the old sailor men is rescued in france by American army
Interesting system that three way level adjustent. I have vintage Finnish Wallac Geiger counter which has similar battery compartment and as robust construction but it has a handle where to carry it and it has a speaker as well. I have a small radioactive mineral which I use when coarse calibrating these and checking if they are working. I remember that it has Mullard tube. I wonder if your instrument has Phosphorescent paint as it looks similar. Have you measured the scale? It deteriorates quite fast and the radiation may be small now.
This one doesn't have any handle because soldiers used to carry it in a leather case. (it originally came with a case). This one has a phosphorescent scale, but it's not radioactive. It glows just for some time after exposed to light. There's no Ra in it.
Danyku?
Jo? :)
Have you ever tested the radiation of a common banana
I am trying to repair an rbgt-62a. The output voltage is too low and the needle can't reach K.N. I tried moving the black circular potentiometer beside the voltage stabilizer tube. It moved the needle past K.N but the humming sound stayed at the same volume.
The sound of the inverter in the earphone is probably normal. I also hear it in all of my pieces.
Ok, but why is the voltage too low?
It can be a lot of things. Bad battery or poor battery contacts. Poor contact in a pot or switch. It can be damaged transisor in the inverter or damaged diode. It can be faulty regulation tube (the glow voltage regulator). Don't measure this voltage with multimeter, it will make the voltage go lower. The internal resistance of the inverter is very high. The voltage should be 400V, but the voltmeter won't show this. If the needle is at K.N., the voltage is ok.
At first the tube didn't glow , so I turned the black potentiometer. Now it glows, but only a little. The glow is very weak, is this ok?
The gas is probably not neon, so it doens't glow much. It is not designed to produce ligth. So it may be ok.
What is the main purpose for uranium beads?
They are radioactive?
Pls Make a video about how to make the tester
Note en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odrow%C4%85%C5%BC_family.
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Jak je mozne ze nekdo ukradl tu trubku?
my Russian Military DP-5V Geiger Counter or Ecotest terra-p
Here is a website where you can order the Geiger counter tube.www.goldmine-elec-products.com/prodinfo.asp?number=G21689
Danyku,zase jiná identita? :)
"This one would be still working if the Geiger tube wasn't stolen from this one." This one sounded really funny for some reason. Also, how sensitive such tools are? Will they react to direct sunlight, or radon in the basement?
This doesn't react to sunlight. The tube is made of metal and so the visible / IR / UV light can't get in. The STS-5 tube is sensitive to gamma and beta. I have never tried to detect radon. Maybe an alpha sensitive tube would be needed. Maybe a ionisating chamber would be better. I'm also not sure if the level of radon radiation would be detectable. It is possible that for proper detection you need to absorb the radon (or likely some elements in its decay chain) into some material (carbon?) and then measure the material (carbon).
Well, sun emits some gamma (tiny amounts, to be honest, more with flares), but i guess it's not enough for most tools to notice. Radon, while relatively abundant, have alpha decay, so it basically directly ionizes surrounding air without any noticeable penetration - so, by measuring ionization levels radon amounts can be measured indirectly. And ionization levels can be measured with some kind of magnetic field geterator which will force charged particles from recombining by pulling them in opposite directions - towards some kind of ion detector, probably just grounded probe with ampermeter, and quite possibly some amplifiers in between. But then, noises will most likely just obliterate currents caused by charged particle movement. I guess some other ion detector is needed.
Even a alpha sensitive geiger counter will not detect radon in the air, because there are such small amounts.
Sensitivity is relative. We can ramp it up indefinitely if we can offset the noise.
wtf you have uranium in just plastic bag xD?
Those are uranium glass balls/marbles/beads. Those are legally sold and by law they contain less than 1% of uranium, but usually just about 0.1 or 0.2%. They are a safe Geiger counter test source :).
DP-5V Geiger Counter prob radioactive check source Strontium-90 ( Beta )
I think nothing happens if you put that probe into ~220V power outlet - it is just a capacitor filled with inert gas and working with 450V so 220 AC should do no harm to it. On the other hand what happen if you put finger in that probe socket ? :)
The headphone plug is simmilar to a mains plug, not the probe plug.
The probe socket has 400VDC in it, but it is hard to put a finger into it and there's a very high value resistor in series (I think 10M) anyway. This would only result in 0.04mA through your body. You wont even notice such current.
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