In reply to Bill Antoni's message of Thu, 2 Dec 2021 23:47:50 +0100: Hi, [snip] >I tried a webcam/CCD/CMOS detector and while it seems to work for cosmic >muons, on the long term (unpowered cell) it appears to work like a very >insensitive Geiger counter (giving only a few hundred "events" per day),
If a measurable amount of energy is produced by the cell, and is of nuclear origin, then even an insensitive detector should pick up multiple counts / second. To test your detector, you can use an Americium based smoke detector. That's only about 1 micro Curie, and any significant energy production should produce much more than that. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk <mixent...@aussiebroadband.com.au>
