Keep any politics out of the comments please, this is a technical review and not a political discussion video. There are many places on other channels to post those sort of comments, please go there and $hitpost...
@project-326 so no bashing on the German engineering of the big yellow paperweight 😢 or is it not political since no one in the chat should be in the wrong and like it 🤣 Keep up the great videos and im glad I'm the first person to watch it and comment (i should buy a lottery ticket or something)
I hope you licence this or gets a GoFundme going to find subcontractors to manufacture in the free market. You have about six months before China gets their sh1t together. I respect your the skill and the professional work that went into this device but don't think for one minute you will make money in a 'Closed market'. Licence it allowing $, as Bitcoin will be subject to problems like the Rubble ?. Excellent work consider your future elsewhere. I wish you well and have a good year.
Awesome little device, simple but effective. I love the work of some of these little hobbyists, they can imagine and innovate in a way that commercial industry cannot hope to achieve. Great review as always.
Nice to see that it works with that tiny Geiger Muller tube. I feel sorry for anyone that develops a good product now a days since there will be a cheap Asian knock-off of it within months. Very nice review, keep it up.
Very informative video again! This counter seems worth buying... I would be curious about it's reaction time, how long does it register a count while in your pocket when walking pass a hot spot? We can't expect much given the size but it could be useful in power plant since our ED aren't very fast...happy new year!!
Very interesting device! It's very clever to use the RGB LED to intuitively indicate the radiation level. During tests, you can see the little flashing LED go from green to blue and then to red (ohhh I'm in danger!). 😉
Quite unrelated but I was wondering if you could test out the DIY CERN beta detector and alpha spectrometer? They’re quite easy to put together with soldering and all. Definitely interested to seeing those results and if they’re reliable at all.
This looks a very cool little device that I would love to add to my radiation detector collection! :D It ofc sucks that this device is quite difficult to obtain right now :/ Thanks for this review as always!
A fantastic review, you are without a doubt the best radiophile channel on youtube, keep up the good work, finally a little machine that works, it looks very well built, the only one so far ive got that works in this tiny form is the Biri-1, mine sounds amazing becuese its little pulse coil ferrite speaker has come loose & makes a really tragic squeaky warbling ascending & descending comical manic beeping which alters frequency dramatically when it gets near a source which really gives it some character. i would like to try & acquire one of these little mashines in your video for my collection but ive never used crypto before so ime not keen on messing about with that.
thanks for the feedback, I hope the counter keeps up the warbling for a long service life! I was just guessing abut the crypto and Kazakhstan, if you send the guy an email, perhaps there is an easy way?
I think it is coincidence, the Radtus device has been round for longer than the Radiacode devices, and the Radiacode models have just incremented the numbers and now reached 103... But the 'G' suffix is also interesting, RC103G represents the GAGG crystal, but again the Radtus used it first. Spooky... I saw that the Radtus creator is making comments, perhaps he can help answer this better than me.
@project-326 Thanks for the reply. Yea I had to buy the radiacode 103g as soon as it became available. Just a somewhat rare crystal to add to my scintillator family.
In fact, there is no letter G in the model designation of my device. There is a little confusion here. As for the close matches in the model designation with Radiacode, this is exactly a coincidence. And my device with such a designation was much earlier than Radiacode came to the same thing. We just had the same thoughts. Decoding the designation is simple - 1 is the model number, 03 is the revision number. I keep in touch with the Radiacode developers. We have already discussed this with them. :)
The low power consumption of the HV PSU is very impressive, as you say the case lets it down. The circuit layout and implementation is excellent. Occasionally something spectacular comes from the CCCP oooops Russia but like the superb Russian designed "Malahit" SDR, who's inventor lost a fortune in sales to the Chinese who flooded the market with substandard counterfeits called 'Malachite' SDR. Licences this device before you loose the market.
@Radtus-R103 I hope you licence this or gets a GoFundme going to find subcontractors to manufacture in the free market. You have about six months before China gets their sh1t together. I respect your the skill and the professional work that went into this device but don't think for one minute you will make money in a 'Closed market'. Licence it allowing $, as Bitcoin will be subject to problems like the Rubble ?. Excellent work consider your future elsewhere. I wish you well and have a good year.
@@project-326 @Radtus-R103 I hope you licence this or gets a GoFundme going to find subcontractors to manufacture in the free market. You have about six months before China gets their sh1t together. I respect your the skill and the professional work that went into this device but don't think for one minute you will make money in a 'Closed market'. Licence it allowing $, as Bitcoin will be subject to problems like the Rubble ?. Excellent work consider your future elsewhere. I wish you well and have a good year.
@@project-326 I always understood it. But... All this costs quite a lot of money (for me at the moment). I simply don't have it. Besides, this device has at least one thing that is suitable for patenting. But again, in order to reliably protect some solution with patents, you need to get at least three patents - US, EU and Japan. All this together costs about 100,000 dollars. For me - it's completely unrealistic. And there is no point in patenting in Russia, since no one in the world recognizes Russian patents.
@@Radtus-R103 the only place I bother with patents these days is in China (with additional PCT filing), everything is made here anyway and the system here is good to protect IP if you have a local patent with first filing in CN. Even with my foreign name on the 19 or so patents that I have, not seen any infringement in China. Ironically, the only copying that has occurred with any of my IP was from a shitball UK company and an even shittier Canadian company (both of which had been clients of mine). In both cases the Chinese factory they went to get their products made at actually contacted me directly to let me know and stopped the project. A lot has changed in China in the last 10 to 15 years (but most people in the west don't know, or even want to know that). They now have a growing portfolio IP of their own to protect... What most people forget is that until WW2, the US was built on IP copied from Europe, after the war, the Japanese did it, then the Taiwanese, Koreans, even Hong Kong. Once they have something to lose of their own, things sort themselves out. If has been the basic pattern of intellectual property over the millennia. Fun fact, the vast majority of the 5G system patents are owned by Huawei, they basically pioneered the technology...
@@project-326 When I started developing the device, Bluetooth was still very bad. It was about 10 years ago. Besides, I wanted to make a stand-alone device. I never really liked devices that couldn't work without another device - a phone. But today - yes, there is BLE, which consumes a little energy, and therefore it is possible to make a device with Bluetooth. Moreover, it is always possible to make Bluetooth optionally disconnectable. There is one more nuance - such a small Geiger tube requires a lot of time to collect statistics in order to show adequate measurement results in accuracy, say, in uSv/h. And these data will always lag far behind the rapidly changing reality. For example, when walking at a fast pace. Thus, accurate measurements on such a small tube generally look like a dubious advantage. The purpose of the device is a quick response to changes in the radiation environment, although with a fairly rough estimate of the dose rate. (The user can set this dose rate themselves using a PC program and in accordance with the calibration table of the dependence of CPS on the dose rate.). I deliberately left the possibility for the user to calibrate the device to their needs in a sense. In general, the answer is that yes, it is possible to make a device with BLE. And it does not even require an extra 5 dollars. Simply replacing one microcontroller to another, wich will becosts approximately the same. But the question is - is it necessary? I still have doubts.
@gerarderloper then it doesnt make much sense as for approx. same money you can get a small scintillator detector which will use far more superior counter than sbm-21 tube that is used here
@@project-326 Okay so apparently google's announcing HL3 in a subtle way by creating this dystopian atmosphere or playing god a little too much. I see my comments disappear in 10 seconds even without mentioning anything offensive or sensitive.
Hey bro i have a idea for a video: You should do a video about how to find some radioactive stuff, because i have a br-6 for more than a year and i just found some rocks that emit 0.30 micro silverts
0:58 AAAHHHH if i wanted to watch X ra(y)ted content with scary bad pieces of trash i wouldve watched the video destroying the big yellow one on repeat 😂
Merci beaucoup c'est incroyable la puissance de cette isotope strontium 90 et il préfère la grande appareils de la petite et de meilleure qualité il détecte mieux les différentes sources alpha dur et gamma comme vous l'avez dit😮😅😅😅😅
Look for the video of a radiation accident on a public bus in Bolivia from the 'Plainly Difficult' channel. If even ONE of the bus passengers had this device on their keychain, the problem would have been noticed sooner. Nor should one say that something like this couldn't happen 'here': just look at the lost Cs-137 radiation source in Australia. There are certainly some people who always carry a RadiaCode or a RAYSID with them everywhere. But that's not really practical, because these devices have to be charged much more often - they are of course also more sensitive. But having a detector like that on your keychain that you always have with you is certainly not a bad idea. Please also take a look at the ATOM-SWIFT, which follows a similar concept and is powered by a button cell.
My wife's device has been working on one battery for three years now. With recharging when it runs out completely. No tendency to bulge is visible yet. Although, of course, this does not provide a full guarantee. All lithium batteries tend to fail over time. But in this device, replacing the battery is very easy.
@@dvsur scinterlation detectors are far more sensitive but also more expensive and typically larger and more power hungry than this little device. My Radiacode devices last about 2 weeks on a charge, this will go for about a year.
yes, you are correct and the up-cost for that option represents half the price of this little detector. As you might have guessed, I'm not a fan of the gamma scout, I think it is very overpriced and they didn't make any changes to the fundamental parts of the product for nearly 30 years now.
High voltage in a pocket size device? Dunno but it seems dangerous to me. There are scintillators like BRS-02 with a super small CsI(Ti) crystal (0,4cm side cube), that has a simple PIN diode attached..
the HV supply is has less than 1uA of current available, so it will be barely noticeable. I know because I managed to touch the supply during the teardown process, several times in-fact. PIN diodes are not going to be sensitive enough to detect the single photon type events that is needed for a scintillation detector. I think that the BRS-02 uses a SiPM detector...
@@PatrickOnEngineering I should probably explain that better in these videos, the HV supply is really low energy, but I see your point - 400V in your pocket doesn't sound great right?
The case of the device is VERY durable. There was a case when a car drove over it, and the device not only did not fall apart, but continued to work. If you do not disassemble the device and do not touch the "largest" capacitor with your fingers, you will never be in any danger.
This gadget and this review are garbage. Retired Certified Professional Health-Physicist here. I've spent much of my career designing and calibrating truly high range detectors such as the 1 million R/hr detector which sits in the dome of the containment of every nuclear plant in the US. It is water and air-tight. It uses graded shielding which prevents any response to beta emitters, unlike the device under test (DUT). This device should not have responded AT ALL to the Sr-90 source. A graded shield is designed to prevent the detector from responding to very low radiation, too weak to deliver any dose but will provoke a gross over-response in an un-shielded detector. I've constructed a shield consisting of 8 tons of pre-war* cast lead. Without the graded shielding, an HpGe detector will still detect the ~78 keV lead fluorescence X-Rays emitting from the shield. A graded shield consisting of a 1 mm wrap of cadmium around the detector followed by a thick foil of copper completely eliminates this response. A thin sandwich, consisting of less than 3mm will stop all the low energy radiation. Thus, a high quality GM tube surrounded by the Cd-Cu shield will not respond AT ALL to the fluorescent X-rays the electrons emitted from the Sr-90 source as they impact the nearby materials. This device is not gas-tight. Thus if the amateur user stumbles into a puff of Kr-85 and/or Xe-133, as from a hospital radio-medicine department, The detector will over-range long after the pulse is gone. This is because the non-sealed instrument will have filled been by the gaseous isotopes. I have had to demonstrate this effect to industry health-physicists at various client sites who were skeptical. The only place I have NOT had to demonstrate this effect was at one of my best clients, Three Mile Island. The reason is that they experienced this effect with high range survey instruments sent into Unit 2 on robots shortly after the incident. They had not fully realized the consequences of letting the case Neoprene gaskets deteriorate because they' never had to deal with high concentrations of Xe-133 and Kr-85. I had the technicians replace all the seals and we tested them again. Not a bit of leakage and thus no upscale readings after I had captured all the noble gases from my bell jar. While the noble gases are inside the instrument, let's examine another aspect of high irradiation inside the case. Rapid damage to electronic parts, particularly the processor and memory. The gases in direct with the processor and battery-backed SRAM quickly discharged the data stored on insulated gates of NVRAM. A discharged memory cell reads OxFF. A charged cell has a charge on the gate which means that the gate has received no radiation exposure. Professional instruments have external shields which allows the HP tech to zoom in fairly rapidly to the source's location. None of the toy instruments have this capability. Thus, I can say with great confidence that none of these toys have any use whatsoever, other than as toys. This gadget and this review are garbage.
Actually, I didn't design my device to stick it into a working reactor with such a field intensity that the electronics themselves would crumble. And beta sensitivity was left in it on purpose. For what purpose? Try to guess. By the way, any detector, even the most tightly shielded from beta radiation, will react to Sr-90. Because of the braking X-rays that occur when electrons are slowed down in dense screen materials. End so on...
TLDR its for the average joe to understand if something is happening or not Its not for anything more than piece of mind and since your retired you clearly have time to get with the times 😂
@@gerarderloper :) Really -- no. To know that it's time to leave quickly or even run like hell. And it's possible to run away. In 95%-98% of possible cases.
Your argument appears to be that because this piece of equipment does not meet your standards of measurement accuracy, the general public should not have access to it, we should rely upon the large wealthy institutions, that can make the huge equipment investments, for our own personal safety, because of accuracy issues... Those detectors that you worked on, how much did they cost? Even the little dosimeter you wore when on-site, is a very costly piece of kit when viewed from the perspective of the general public. "Time, Distance & Shielding", a mantra you will know all too well. You can't minimize any of those if you are unaware that you are being exposed at all.
Thanks for the comment. Actually, everything in the video can legally be bought in Germany, the Cs-137 source is well below the legal activity level. Usually plutonium is is very highly controlled, but even then you often see old soviet smoke detectors that contain it being sold on ebay.
@project-326 I heard stories from people that had a lot of uranium minerals and got problems. Even the americium source would get you in trouble afaik....I know it's stupid but it's Germany....
Keep any politics out of the comments please, this is a technical review and not a political discussion video. There are many places on other channels to post those sort of comments, please go there and $hitpost...
@project-326 so no bashing on the German engineering of the big yellow paperweight 😢 or is it not political since no one in the chat should be in the wrong and like it 🤣
Keep up the great videos and im glad I'm the first person to watch it and comment (i should buy a lottery ticket or something)
AS AN AMERICAN.... I THINK IT IS A GOOD PRODUCT, AND WOULD TOTALLY BUY 3 OF THEM
@@The-One-and-Only100 just tell me your lucky numbers and I will buy a ticket for you ;-)
hopefully they are 3, 2 and 6
@@DailyDriverGarage As would I. I like to support the maker community, no matter what nation the individual is from.
@@project-326 wait there's other numbers than 326 in that order?
Must be fake news or something because 326 is the only real number 😂
Just found this channel and absolutely impressed by the rigor, deep knowledge, and humor. RUclips at its very finest.
Thanks for the feedback, I really appreciate it.
Thank you for another informative video!
You're welcome, glad you enjoyed it.
Friends, I am the author of this device. I have received a lot of mail and messages. I will gradually answer everyone. Please, just wait a little.
Awesome. You might be very busy soon.
Add a bit of code to measure the cumulative dose and indicate it using a series of beeps or flashes of the LED.❤
I hope you licence this or gets a GoFundme going to find subcontractors to manufacture in the free market. You have about six months before China gets their sh1t together.
I respect your the skill and the professional work that went into this device but don't think for one minute you will make money in a 'Closed market'. Licence it allowing $, as Bitcoin will be subject to problems like the Rubble ?. Excellent work consider your future elsewhere. I wish you well and have a good year.
@@christopherleubner6633 It is possible...
@@christopherleubner6633 Yes, it can be done.
Camera fund! Good work again!
thank you
Great one, I love when experts do it better than a whole company. Great content!
Thank you for the great videos! Hope you get the new camera soon!
Working on it!
@ Great! Also what is your opinion on the watches from Polimaster?
I love your channel, very nice information, and your english is easy to understand. Greetings from Lima, Peru. Happy New Year =)
Greetings from China, and thanks for the feedback!
Another great video!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Please also pay attention to Atom Swift scintillation device with the similar purpose.
Awesome little device, simple but effective. I love the work of some of these little hobbyists, they can imagine and innovate in a way that commercial industry cannot hope to achieve. Great review as always.
Couldn't agree more!
interesting review -- the PCB layout and assembly are very nice!
I am a professional electronic engineer. This is my profession.
Yeah, the design is really well thought out.
Thanks for the great review! I will just hang on to my old radiacode 101 for now! Peace!
Easily 100k subs incoming. Just keep going!!
aiming for 10K
Baby steps...
Nice to see that it works with that tiny Geiger Muller tube. I feel sorry for anyone that develops a good product now a days since there will be a cheap Asian knock-off of it within months. Very nice review, keep it up.
It looks like the creator did an excellent job creating this. It stinks that it is so hard to obtain quality devices due to geopolitical issues.
Very informative video again! This counter seems worth buying... I would be curious about it's reaction time, how long does it register a count while in your pocket when walking pass a hot spot? We can't expect much given the size but it could be useful in power plant since our ED aren't very fast...happy new year!!
The device's response speed to changes in the radiation environment is 1 second.
Very interesting device! It's very clever to use the RGB LED to intuitively indicate the radiation level. During tests, you can see the little flashing LED go from green to blue and then to red (ohhh I'm in danger!). 😉
Yes, the color change is a nice touch.
For new camera
Thank you very much Sir!
Good find! Nice teardown. Shout out for the outro, and the sentiments toward YT! 😏
Thanks for watching!
Quite unrelated but I was wondering if you could test out the DIY CERN beta detector and alpha spectrometer? They’re quite easy to put together with soldering and all. Definitely interested to seeing those results and if they’re reliable at all.
That is an interesting idea - I will have a look at how to build that!
Great video alwayes fun to watch and something to learn
Glad you enjoyed it
"Very Nice" As always a very interesting video!
Thank you!
What would you think the results would be if you swapped out the metal tube with the larger glass tube for testing purposes? Better sensitivity?
Sensitivity would increase. Everything else would remain the same. Including operating time.
This looks a very cool little device that I would love to add to my radiation detector collection! :D
It ofc sucks that this device is quite difficult to obtain right now :/
Thanks for this review as always!
I guess you could always buy some shares in a Kazakh horse using crypto... :-)
@project-326 I guess 😂
Where does the thorium sample come from? Looks like a fragment of a glazed brick?
I've been wanting one of these for years but can't get it
you will probably need to buy shares in a Kazakh donkey using crypto to get one...
Thank you for the movie and information provided. With regards Antonio Constantin
Thank you Sir!!!!! iam subscriber in your channel almost a year now and i am amazed from your fantastic channel!! Greetings from Greece!!!!!
Greetings from China and thank you for your continued support of this channel!
@@project-326 You welcome Sir!!!!!! You have my full Support!!!
If only it was USB-C, I would buy one.
If only this channel didn't use a robot voice, I would give a thumbs up.
It is USB-C...
As for the TTS, we are both foreigners living in China and we can chose our own levels of anonymity, I have chosen mine.
From the beginning of 2024, devices are supplied only with USB-C.
Hola, donde puedo comprar esto en argentina,saludos.
A fantastic review, you are without a doubt the best radiophile channel on youtube, keep up the good work, finally a little machine that works, it looks very well built, the only one so far ive got that works in this tiny form is the Biri-1,
mine sounds amazing becuese its little pulse coil ferrite speaker has come loose & makes a really tragic squeaky warbling ascending & descending comical manic beeping which alters frequency dramatically when it gets near a source which really gives it some character.
i would like to try & acquire one of these little mashines in your video for my collection but ive never used crypto before so ime not keen on messing about with that.
thanks for the feedback, I hope the counter keeps up the warbling for a long service life!
I was just guessing abut the crypto and Kazakhstan, if you send the guy an email, perhaps there is an easy way?
Is the model number a reference to the radiacode 103g or just a big coincidence?
I think it is coincidence, the Radtus device has been round for longer than the Radiacode devices, and the Radiacode models have just incremented the numbers and now reached 103...
But the 'G' suffix is also interesting, RC103G represents the GAGG crystal, but again the Radtus used it first. Spooky...
I saw that the Radtus creator is making comments, perhaps he can help answer this better than me.
@project-326 Thanks for the reply. Yea I had to buy the radiacode 103g as soon as it became available. Just a somewhat rare crystal to add to my scintillator family.
In fact, there is no letter G in the model designation of my device. There is a little confusion here.
As for the close matches in the model designation with Radiacode, this is exactly a coincidence. And my device with such a designation was much earlier than Radiacode came to the same thing. We just had the same thoughts. Decoding the designation is simple - 1 is the model number, 03 is the revision number. I keep in touch with the Radiacode developers. We have already discussed this with them. :)
Good review
Thank you for watching!
The low power consumption of the HV PSU is very impressive, as you say the case lets it down. The circuit layout and implementation is excellent. Occasionally something spectacular comes from the CCCP oooops Russia but like the superb Russian designed "Malahit" SDR, who's inventor lost a fortune in sales to the Chinese who flooded the market with substandard counterfeits called 'Malachite' SDR. Licences this device before you loose the market.
Good advice, hopefully @Radtus-R103 can get the message!
@Radtus-R103 I hope you licence this or gets a GoFundme going to find subcontractors to manufacture in the free market. You have about six months before China gets their sh1t together.
I respect your the skill and the professional work that went into this device but don't think for one minute you will make money in a 'Closed market'. Licence it allowing $, as Bitcoin will be subject to problems like the Rubble ?. Excellent work consider your future elsewhere. I wish you well and have a good year.
@@project-326 @Radtus-R103 I hope you licence this or gets a GoFundme going to find subcontractors to manufacture in the free market. You have about six months before China gets their sh1t together.
I respect your the skill and the professional work that went into this device but don't think for one minute you will make money in a 'Closed market'. Licence it allowing $, as Bitcoin will be subject to problems like the Rubble ?. Excellent work consider your future elsewhere. I wish you well and have a good year.
@@project-326 I always understood it. But...
All this costs quite a lot of money (for me at the moment). I simply don't have it. Besides, this device has at least one thing that is suitable for patenting. But again, in order to reliably protect some solution with patents, you need to get at least three patents - US, EU and Japan. All this together costs about 100,000 dollars. For me - it's completely unrealistic. And there is no point in patenting in Russia, since no one in the world recognizes Russian patents.
@@Radtus-R103 the only place I bother with patents these days is in China (with additional PCT filing), everything is made here anyway and the system here is good to protect IP if you have a local patent with first filing in CN. Even with my foreign name on the 19 or so patents that I have, not seen any infringement in China. Ironically, the only copying that has occurred with any of my IP was from a shitball UK company and an even shittier Canadian company (both of which had been clients of mine). In both cases the Chinese factory they went to get their products made at actually contacted me directly to let me know and stopped the project. A lot has changed in China in the last 10 to 15 years (but most people in the west don't know, or even want to know that). They now have a growing portfolio IP of their own to protect...
What most people forget is that until WW2, the US was built on IP copied from Europe, after the war, the Japanese did it, then the Taiwanese, Koreans, even Hong Kong. Once they have something to lose of their own, things sort themselves out. If has been the basic pattern of intellectual property over the millennia.
Fun fact, the vast majority of the 5G system patents are owned by Huawei, they basically pioneered the technology...
12:45 It's not that simple unfortunately because the self discharge rate of this battery is much higher.
For another five dollars in bom cost they could have added bluetooth and let the community make an app
yup, I fully agree!
@@project-326 now that I think of it that might have a large impact on battery life. Bluetooth low energy might work.
@@FennecTECH @Radtus-R103, what do you think of adding BLE to your product?
@@project-326 When I started developing the device, Bluetooth was still very bad. It was about 10 years ago. Besides, I wanted to make a stand-alone device. I never really liked devices that couldn't work without another device - a phone.
But today - yes, there is BLE, which consumes a little energy, and therefore it is possible to make a device with Bluetooth. Moreover, it is always possible to make Bluetooth optionally disconnectable.
There is one more nuance - such a small Geiger tube requires a lot of time to collect statistics in order to show adequate measurement results in accuracy, say, in uSv/h. And these data will always lag far behind the rapidly changing reality. For example, when walking at a fast pace. Thus, accurate measurements on such a small tube generally look like a dubious advantage. The purpose of the device is a quick response to changes in the radiation environment, although with a fairly rough estimate of the dose rate. (The user can set this dose rate themselves using a PC program and in accordance with the calibration table of the dependence of CPS on the dose rate.). I deliberately left the possibility for the user to calibrate the device to their needs in a sense.
In general, the answer is that yes, it is possible to make a device with BLE. And it does not even require an extra 5 dollars. Simply replacing one microcontroller to another, wich will becosts approximately the same. But the question is - is it necessary? I still have doubts.
How much does it cost?
guessing around 200USD.. (based on comments suggesting its half price of gamma scout) however inflation hitting harder every year who knows .
@gerarderloper then it doesnt make much sense as for approx. same money you can get a small scintillator detector which will use far more superior counter than sbm-21 tube that is used here
$90
Half the price of the NukAlert...
Hey there! Did you get my email reply or did the server swallow it as spam?
I just checked and no, I didn't receive anything yet...
@project-326 Weird. It's in sent and no undeliveries. I'll try again.
@@project-326 Weird
@@project-326 Okay so apparently google's announcing HL3 in a subtle way by creating this dystopian atmosphere or playing god a little too much. I see my comments disappear in 10 seconds even without mentioning anything offensive or sensitive.
@@yunodiewtf I just got your latest email.
Hey bro i have a idea for a video: You should do a video about how to find some radioactive stuff, because i have a br-6 for more than a year and i just found some rocks that emit 0.30 micro silverts
Thanks for the comment. If you look on the channel page, there are a couple of videos about searching for radioactive rocks.
0:58 AAAHHHH if i wanted to watch X ra(y)ted content with scary bad pieces of trash i wouldve watched the video destroying the big yellow one on repeat 😂
I'm going to use that "X Ra(y)ted content" line in a video fairly soon! tks
@project-326 thats RAD I would love a shout-out so I can flex on all my friends
Merci beaucoup c'est incroyable la puissance de cette isotope strontium 90 et il préfère la grande appareils de la petite et de meilleure qualité il détecte mieux les différentes sources alpha dur et gamma comme vous l'avez dit😮😅😅😅😅
Look for the video of a radiation accident on a public bus in Bolivia from the 'Plainly Difficult' channel. If even ONE of the bus passengers had this device on their keychain, the problem would have been noticed sooner. Nor should one say that something like this couldn't happen 'here': just look at the lost Cs-137 radiation source in Australia. There are certainly some people who always carry a RadiaCode or a RAYSID with them everywhere. But that's not really practical, because these devices have to be charged much more often - they are of course also more sensitive. But having a detector like that on your keychain that you always have with you is certainly not a bad idea. Please also take a look at the ATOM-SWIFT, which follows a similar concept and is powered by a button cell.
I might reach out to those guys, perhaps they would be interested in having a review made of their product...
I actually watched that video just a week ago, small world...
Hey Arthur, maybe one day you could give us an intro to your human owner?
He is just another boring human meat bag, easily damaged but just as easily replaced...
Borat approves this video 😅.
niiiiiiice
@project-326 😅
The size of the GM tube is not as important as rhe quality of its construction.
I agree. One thing I did not explain in the video is that the whole PCB has been conformal coated.
At the very least, even more useful than NukAlert. And he seems like a cool guy too. GeigerLog should support this one too.
the sensitivity reminds me of the GC-01 when it is fitted with the crappy tube option, so not too bad for a keychain device!
@@project-326 That's a powerful little SBM tube. Finally, An actually usable background monitoring device in the size of a keyfob! :O
I think it would be better to charge and discharge the battery at least twice a year else it will bulgde and loose capacity very soon.
My wife's device has been working on one battery for three years now. With recharging when it runs out completely. No tendency to bulge is visible yet. Although, of course, this does not provide a full guarantee. All lithium batteries tend to fail over time. But in this device, replacing the battery is very easy.
I got a nuke alert in 2001 from a friend who was in the government. Thank God it never went off
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@project-326 I seen a crystal is used in the radiacode what are the difference between those?
@@dvsur scinterlation detectors are far more sensitive but also more expensive and typically larger and more power hungry than this little device. My Radiacode devices last about 2 weeks on a charge, this will go for about a year.
@project-326 ah thank you, nice to know 👌😇
My Gamma Scout does have a rechargeable LiIon Battery. Was a bit more expensive though.
yes, you are correct and the up-cost for that option represents half the price of this little detector. As you might have guessed, I'm not a fan of the gamma scout, I think it is very overpriced and they didn't make any changes to the fundamental parts of the product for nearly 30 years now.
High voltage in a pocket size device? Dunno but it seems dangerous to me. There are scintillators like BRS-02 with a super small CsI(Ti) crystal (0,4cm side cube), that has a simple PIN diode attached..
the HV supply is has less than 1uA of current available, so it will be barely noticeable. I know because I managed to touch the supply during the teardown process, several times in-fact. PIN diodes are not going to be sensitive enough to detect the single photon type events that is needed for a scintillation detector. I think that the BRS-02 uses a SiPM detector...
@ cool, thanks for the explanation!
@@PatrickOnEngineering I should probably explain that better in these videos, the HV supply is really low energy, but I see your point - 400V in your pocket doesn't sound great right?
The case of the device is VERY durable. There was a case when a car drove over it, and the device not only did not fall apart, but continued to work.
If you do not disassemble the device and do not touch the "largest" capacitor with your fingers, you will never be in any danger.
@@Radtus-R103 I'm not a mechanical engineer, never worked on CE certification, just thinking out loud. Thanks for the advise ;)
Please get a better ai voice, we in 2025 now, TTS is something of the past 💀💀💀
I'm rather fond of my TTS voice, it reminds me of my manufacturing date!
I guess I'm just a retro kind of guy, and just think that robots should sound like robots.
But anyway, thanks for the feedback!
Personally I love the AI voice !
It is fine as it is
I like the tts, it's neat!
Went to link - cannot just buy it? They can't just sell it? I have to start some message dialog?!?
WHY DID YOU EVEN REVIEW IT?!?
This gadget and this review are garbage.
Retired Certified Professional Health-Physicist here. I've spent much of my career designing and calibrating truly high range detectors such as the 1 million R/hr detector which sits in the dome of the containment of every nuclear plant in the US. It is water and air-tight. It uses graded shielding which prevents any response to beta emitters, unlike the device under test (DUT). This device should not have responded AT ALL to the Sr-90 source.
A graded shield is designed to prevent the detector from responding to very low radiation, too weak to deliver any dose but will provoke a gross over-response in an un-shielded detector. I've constructed a shield consisting of 8 tons of pre-war* cast lead.
Without the graded shielding, an HpGe detector will still detect the ~78 keV lead fluorescence X-Rays emitting from the shield. A graded shield consisting of a 1 mm wrap of cadmium around the detector followed by a thick foil of copper completely eliminates this response. A thin sandwich, consisting of less than 3mm will stop all the low energy radiation. Thus, a high quality GM tube surrounded by the Cd-Cu shield will not respond AT ALL to the fluorescent X-rays the electrons emitted from the Sr-90 source as they impact the nearby materials.
This device is not gas-tight. Thus if the amateur user stumbles into a puff of Kr-85 and/or Xe-133, as from a hospital radio-medicine department, The detector will over-range long after the pulse is gone. This is because the non-sealed instrument will have filled been by the gaseous isotopes.
I have had to demonstrate this effect to industry health-physicists at various client sites who were skeptical. The only place I have NOT had to demonstrate this effect was at one of my best clients, Three Mile Island. The reason is that they experienced this effect with high range survey instruments sent into Unit 2 on robots shortly after the incident. They had not fully realized the consequences of letting the case Neoprene gaskets deteriorate because they' never had to deal with high concentrations of Xe-133 and Kr-85.
I had the technicians replace all the seals and we tested them again. Not a bit of leakage and thus no upscale readings after I had captured all the noble gases from my bell jar.
While the noble gases are inside the instrument, let's examine another aspect of high irradiation inside the case. Rapid damage to electronic parts, particularly the processor and memory. The gases in direct with the processor and battery-backed SRAM quickly discharged the data stored on insulated gates of NVRAM. A discharged memory cell reads OxFF. A charged cell has a charge on the gate which means that the gate has received no radiation exposure.
Professional instruments have external shields which allows the HP tech to zoom in fairly rapidly to the source's location. None of the toy instruments have this capability.
Thus, I can say with great confidence that none of these toys have any use whatsoever, other than as toys. This gadget and this review are garbage.
Actually, I didn't design my device to stick it into a working reactor with such a field intensity that the electronics themselves would crumble. And beta sensitivity was left in it on purpose. For what purpose? Try to guess.
By the way, any detector, even the most tightly shielded from beta radiation, will react to Sr-90. Because of the braking X-rays that occur when electrons are slowed down in dense screen materials.
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TLDR its for the average joe to understand if something is happening or not
Its not for anything more than piece of mind and since your retired you clearly have time to get with the times 😂
Basically is so you know what killed you :)
@@gerarderloper :)
Really -- no. To know that it's time to leave quickly or even run like hell. And it's possible to run away. In 95%-98% of possible cases.
Your argument appears to be that because this piece of equipment does not meet your standards of measurement accuracy, the general public should not have access to it, we should rely upon the large wealthy institutions, that can make the huge equipment investments, for our own personal safety, because of accuracy issues...
Those detectors that you worked on, how much did they cost? Even the little dosimeter you wore when on-site, is a very costly piece of kit when viewed from the perspective of the general public.
"Time, Distance & Shielding", a mantra you will know all too well. You can't minimize any of those if you are unaware that you are being exposed at all.
Veeeery niice review 🥸! 😅
You own some elements that would promptly result in a house raid by a swat team in Germany
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Thanks for the comment. Actually, everything in the video can legally be bought in Germany, the Cs-137 source is well below the legal activity level. Usually plutonium is is very highly controlled, but even then you often see old soviet smoke detectors that contain it being sold on ebay.
@project-326 I heard stories from people that had a lot of uranium minerals and got problems. Even the americium source would get you in trouble afaik....I know it's stupid but it's Germany....