Radiation Detection

Hi everybody,
I'm Emanuele from Italy. I'm a mechanical engineer but my spectrum of interest extends to other technical disciplines.
I'm interested in electronics and Arduino, nuclear physics and everithing is related to science and technology.
I would like to greet Tom from iRad where I bought my first gamma scintillator and of course Steve.

My equipment and radioactive samples:
Ludlum model 3 with Bicron NaI(Tl) scintillator (bought from iRad)
Medcom Inspector Alert+ GM (2" pancake)
An old Russian Prypyat GM counter
A self buid Theremino based spectroscopy driver
Gamma Spectacular GS-1100PRO with GS-2812 NaI(Tl) scintillation probe
A lead caste for
My favourite MCA software is Beqmoni but I'm using also Fitzpeaks.

My radioactive samples:
Spark gap tube with Cs137
Some old tubes containing Ra-226
Thorium welding rod and other stuff containing Th-232
Uranium glass
Pure Potassium Chloride (K40)
Tririum betalights
Smoke detector source containing Am-241
Uranium ores..

About gamma spectroscopy I've some ongoing projects that I'll be glad to discuss within this forum:
A 2.5" x 2.5" NaI(Tl) probe from my gamma spectroscopy lab
A solid state radiation detector based on First Sensor X100-7, Arduino and OLED display
A new lead castle for my gamma spectroscopy lab

PS: I've already started some of the above discussion; find it in the old forum.
http://www.gammaspectacular.com/index.p ... t&path=713

Some of my experiments are on:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbIomy ... qEb2xv9GHQ

Best regards to all,
Emanuele

Emanuele,

Welcome to the forum and thanks for the nice intro..

I am interested in your experiments with the first sensor solid state detector, have you found a circuit that works?

I bought some X-100-7 as well, but have not had much success with my circuits, so would love to discuss this in teh hardware forum.

Steven

Hi Emanuele,
Great to see you here!

Dear Steven,
sorry for my late answer but unfortunately I haven't so much time for my hobbies.
About my Geiger counter I have done some step forward with HW/SW (..I should say radiation detector since there is not GM tube..).
I will post some picture in the hardware forum.

Regards,
Emanuele