Re: Static discharge

[BRZGV@ccmail.ceco.com]

     Sounds like a potential case for a malfunctioning instrument and 
     possibly not static charge.  
     
     It could possibly be that the detector was "arcing" due to improper 
     voltage regulation and the person that entered supplied a ground, got 
     shocked, and shorted something.  I have seen proportional counters 
     behave in this way, but not a complete short of the instrument...Could 
     just be circuit differences or magnitude of the short.
     
     This is probably more credible than someone overloading a detector 
     circuit with a shot current of probably somewhere in the pico-amp or 
     less range.
     
     Glen Vickers
     HP, Nuclear Power Generation
     BRZGV@ccmail.ceco.com
     815-458-2801 ext. 2792
     
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Subject: Static discharge
Author:  radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu at INTERNET 
Date:    3/11/96 5:08 PM
     
     
Does anyone have the foggiest idea how great a static charge can be 
developed by a person?
     
I ask this because we had an individual discharge his static to a PCM-2 
and render it nonfunctional (he fried a board in it).  Our Radiation 
Protection Manager wants to know this before he will allow us to place the 
PCM-2s back in service.
     
Thanks.
     
     
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