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Exploranium GR-256 @ Fugro Instruments


Detector Console specifications

- Mean access time from ADC : 24 uS
- Number of channels : 256
- Maximum count per channel : 65535
- Dead time correction : Automatic by sample period extension
- Sample Period : 1 to 999 seconds
- Number of energy windows (ROI) : 8
- ROI setting range : between channel 1 and 255 as required
- Internal Data Storage - Memory
- Memory Capacity : 4,000 measurement points or identifiers OR 62 complete 256 channel spectra
- Memory type : CMOS RAM, 32 Kilobytes with Lithium battery back-up
- Dimensions: 230 x 90 x 235 mm
- Weight:
-- Without Batteries - 2.8 Kg - 6 lbs.
-- With batteries - 3.5 Kg - 7.5 lbs
- Temperature:
-- Operating : -10 to +55 deg C
-- Storage : -20 to +70 deg C

 Exploranium GR-256 Specifications

The Exploranium GR-256 is a portable 256 channel spectrometer used to record and analyze the Gamma Ray Spectrum. The 256 channels are spread equally over the entire Gamma Ray Spectrum of interest, thus all discrete phenomena may be studied.

The GR-256 has been designed as a versatile tool for a wide range of applications including - ground radiometric surveys for uranium, portable vehicle surveys for hydrocarbon, small airborne survey systems, laboratory data analysis, core logging s ervices etc. The instrument is normally supplied with a 21 cubic inch detector (0.35L) but directly interfaces into 112 cubic inch and 256 cubic inch detectors. Via a special Exploranium interface a large variety of other multiple detectors, as well as such speciality units as borehole logging probes, may be used.

The GR-256 makes gain control essentially AUTOMATIC, a very critical feature for high accuracy Gamma Ray data analysis. It was the first spectrometer to internally store data conversion/correction constants to allow display of data in conventional counts/time period or directly in ppm eU, eTh and % K.

Previous instruments were limited to typically 4 windows, often permanently located in the spectrum, to record the natural isotopes of Uranium, Potassium and Thorium. The GR-256 allows selection of 8 windows which may be located anywhere in the spectrum with any channel width.

The instrument may also be connected directly to a CRT display for real time spectrum analysis. Stored spectra may be also be plotted on an analog chart recorder.

Specifications for the system are shown below:


DECTECTOR - GPS-21

Crystal Sodium Iodide (Thalium) [NaI (T1)] crystal detector with an integral bi-alkali photo-multiplier tube.

  • Resolution Better than 9.0 % FWIM for Cesium 137 at 662 KeV
  • High Voltage: 700 to 1000 Volts supply used to power the photomultiplier tube. Special electronics provide highly stable low-noise circuitry.
  • Output Pulses: Rise time 0.5 uS, fall time 22 uS. Maximum output level + 5 Volts. Gain setting 0.5 Volts typical for 662 KeV adjusted by internal 10-turn gain control. Output impedance 200 ohms.
  • Housing Aluminum cylinder with water resistant seals
  • Reference source is typically Cesium 137 - 15 Kbq (1 microcurie) housed in an externally accessible mount on the base of the detector.
  • Dimensions 4.5 ins. diameter by 16 ins. long and weight of 5 Kgs.
  • Temperature operating range, -10 to +60 deg C.


 
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