Re: Answers to Electronic Dosimetry Operability Checks

[Chuck Peper <peper@lanl.gov>]

MG readers will check for the chirp, but the reliablity of the hardware that
determines whether it chirped is really poor, you get about 10% false
reportings that the dosimeter did not chirp.  This makes the checking pretty
much useless in a production environment.  I stopped having the software
check for chirps, because 10% of the people couldn't get in the plant.


At 07:56 AM 9/24/96 -0500, you wrote:
>About a week ago I posted a request for information about how
>operability checks for electronic dosimetry are performed.  Specifically I
>wondered if the readers check the speaker function prior to entry.  I
>received two responses to my question.  One was from a user who
>agreed that the speaker function should be checked.  The second was
>from a vendor explaining that his product does not require a check
>because of the high reliability.
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