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Hi Ben,

We were warned by the Leica guys not to use cellphones anywhere near the 
scan head on the SP8 - in fact it has a great big picture of a cellphone 
with a line through it on the scanhead! - so I guess it is a well-known 
problem, not a special "feature" of your system.

Best wishes,
Alison

On 7/9/2013 5:13 PM, Smith, Benjamin E. wrote:
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> Hi all,
>      Our Leica SP8 has a pair of HyD detectors, and I've noticed recently that we will get a series of saturated lines during a scan at random, intermittent moments.  Judging by their appearance, my guess has been that the detectors were picking up cellular data transmissions.  Every time I saw them, someone had a cell phone on them, and having them move the cell phone to the far side of the room, or turning the cell phone off, stopped the lines from occurring.
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>      I was wondering if anyone else has noticed this with hybrid detectors, and whether this is normal behavior or something we need to have looked into.
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> Thanks,
>      Ben Smith
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