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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.  

    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.

Thanks,
    Ben Smith

Benjamin E. Smith, Ph.D.
Samuel Roberts Noble Microscopy Laboratory
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