Blinky's Lab

November 2018

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    SBT-10A GM tube destroyed!
    Archived from radmon.org - originally posted 15/11/2018 A very strange one here. I'm looking for answers but after scouring the internet I doubt I'll find any. My SBT-10A tube has been destroyed for some reason unbeknown to myself. The mica window has completely shattered. I have no idea why. In the pictures you can see the damage. It appears that the mica has either reacted with something or it has catastrophically degraded. The last time I used this was on 20/10/2018 (so less than a month ago) when I decided to setup a reasonably controlled comparison of all my sources (I'll post about that