Radiation shielded Go-Pro camera sent through electron beam irradiator

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Digital camera sent through radiation-emitting machine.
A radiation-shielded go-pro camera was sent through an electron beam irradiator.

You can see the effects that the radiation has on the camera in the video.

I wonder how many rads it was exposed to.

 
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Interesting. What is the nature of the source? I'm sort of wondering if there might be something like a massive big transformer there providing intense magnetic field variation. Maybe the speckles just before the max exposure are radiation, and the complete grey-out is the amplifier in the camera getting overloaded by being beside a huge transformer. Just wildly guessing.
 
ElliotSmith said:
sent through an electron beam irradiator
In the atmosphere? What kind of e-beam source shoots across 1-2 meters in the atmosphere?
DEvens said:
I'm sort of wondering if there might be something like a massive big transformer there providing intense magnetic field variation. Maybe the speckles just before the max exposure are radiation, and the complete grey-out is the amplifier in the camera getting overloaded by being beside a huge transformer.
Agreed, it could be EM interference. I see that kind of response often in high-level EMI susceptibility testing. We use antennas and big power amplifiers to blast the test devices.

@ElliotSmith -- do you have any technical specs for this "radiation shielded" GoPro unit? What level of EN 61000-4-3 (radiated EMI immunity) has it been tested to?
 
berkeman said:
In the atmosphere? What kind of e-beam source shoots across 1-2 meters in the atmosphere?

Agreed, it could be EM interference. I see that kind of response often in high-level EMI susceptibility testing. We use antennas and big power amplifiers to blast the test devices.

@ElliotSmith -- do you have any technical specs for this "radiation shielded" GoPro unit? What level of EN 61000-4-3 (radiated EMI immunity) has it been tested to?

I don't know any technical details, try reading the video description.
 
ElliotSmith said:
I don't know any technical details, try reading the video description.
I have no idea what that means. Is there some secret symbol in the YouTube video that I'm supposed to click on to get to some "more details" page? And TBH, I don't appreciated you trying to put more work on me to try to figure out information that you should have posted in the first place...

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berkeman said:
I have no idea what that means. Is there some secret symbol in the YouTube video that I'm supposed to click on to get to some "more details" page? And TBH, I don't appreciated you trying to put more work on me to try to figure out information that you should have posted in the first place...

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There is a "read more" tab underneath the video. Anyone familiar with youtube knows this.
 

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ElliotSmith said:
Anyone familiar with youtube knows this.
I guess that's the fundamental problem. I'm out.
 
ElliotSmith said:
Anyone familiar with youtube knows this.

And anyone familiar with PF knows that, as @berkeman has already said, you don't ask other people to do work you should have done in the first place in order to help you.

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