3rd station in Grimsby UK.

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9 years 9 months ago #757 by magoo²
Hi,
I have been running an RH Electronics Arduino IDE Geiger kit with an SBM-20 tube, for a few months now and intend to get on-line very soon using a Raspberry Pi solar powered set up.
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Matt.
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9 years 7 months ago #1067 by Bert490
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Hi Matt:
Your existing station was running quite hot on the 10th and the 14th, then stopped sending (currently showing the last reading of 99 CPM). Were you experimenting?

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9 years 7 months ago - 9 years 7 months ago #1068 by mw0uzo
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Yes good question, I've been looking at those graphs with interest!
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9 years 7 months ago #1069 by magoo²
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Not sure what's going on there! No experiments by me. The pollution has been high around here this week but not sure if that makes a difference. The wifi dongle is only a nano one so keeps dropping the signal due to distance so i have to keep rebooting so that explains why it keeps going off. I will be sorting that problem this week with a different dongle.

Matt.

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9 years 7 months ago #1071 by mw0uzo
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Is the unit outside or indoors? It really does look like something is being detected, but what? What sort of PSU is the MyGeiger running from? If you're running from a RPi with small PSU - can you run the MyGeiger off a PC for a while to try and exclude weird PSU effects that have been seen before?

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9 years 7 months ago #1084 by magoo²
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The unit is housed inside a shed. The Geiger is powered from the rpi which has a 12 volt to 5 volt power adapter. I put it onto a 240 volt to 5 volt adapter the other day but it stayed the same. A friend of mine is fetching his portable unit to my house so we can sweep the shed/fence/roof etc to see what we find as all the high readings started after a heavy downpour of dirty rain from the sahara. Could be a voltage thing so if the sweep turns up nothing i will swap the pi out and see what that does.
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