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Lead foil bags, such as the ones we used to use for protecting film from X-rays in airports, wrapped around the PMTs should solve this problem. Don't know, but maybe even the lighter electrostatic protective bags for EZ Pass, circuit boards, etc. would work.
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Subject: Re: Possible cell phone interference with hybrid detectors
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Ben
We have a similar array of detectors on an SP5: we DO get cell phone (when they work..) interference and Leica got us some 'no cell' stickers/warnings to be placed in the room, right when we had the system installed.
Best,
Renato
Renato Mortara
EPM-UNIFESP
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2013/7/9 Smith, Benjamin E. <[log in to unmask]>
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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
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> Benjamin E. Smith, Ph.D.
> Samuel Roberts Noble Microscopy Laboratory Research Scientist II
> University of Oklahoma Norman, OK 73019
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