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> but they are highly sensitive to beta I’m not familiar with Geiger counter design/specs but would the considerable static electricity send some electrons int
by kloch 3y ago
> but they are highly sensitive to beta
I’m not familiar with Geiger counter design/specs but would the considerable static electricity send some electrons into the detector and cause a false positive beta hit?
- BetterGeiger 3y agoBeta particles are basically energetic electrons flying around, yes, but for a Geiger counter to detect them they have to be quite energetic in order to penetrate the Geiger tube itself (detection occurs essentially inside the tube, in the gas)... So I doubt that static field is generating electrons anywhere near that energy needed to be detected by a Geiger tube.
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- kloch 3y agoDryer static charges are probably a few keV at most so yeah that shouldn't make it through a metal envelope. However, I wonder how well shielded the electronics are. In a poor quality design even the static charge fields themselves might trigger a false hit.