Re:Flipper Zero Geiger Counter
by dividedbyzero on Thursday September 18, 2025 @03:15PM
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Hypothetically speaking, how useful would something like that be in a nuclear weapon fallout scenario? Can such a contraption detect the important isotopes and give the user an accurate idea of the level of danger they're in, does that change over time as isotope composition changes through decay?
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Are you willing to bet your life on it?
Re:Flipper Zero Geiger Counter
by dividedbyzero on Thursday September 18, 2025 @05:35PM
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No, I'd be dead anyway. Still curious what these things can do, seeing as some people buy them for that purpose.
Re:Flipper Zero Geiger Counter
by BetterGeiger on Thursday September 18, 2025 @05:26PM
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tl;dr not useful. To make a long story short, max range is very important and these cheap tubes saturate easily, and they don't give energy-corrected dose rate. They also cannot do gamma spec (isotope identification), but that is not needed for a fallout scenario because fallout contains basically every isotope under the sun, no need to do any gamma spec. I have a very long detailed video about this topic on my youtube channel BetterGeiger