Part 1: Teardown of a Fujifilm FCR XG-1 x-ray image scanner / digitizer. Also known as Computerized Radiography (CR), it fulfills the job of scanning a x-ray exposed image plate with a laser beam and extract each pixel illumination with a photo multiplier tube setup. It can scan 72 plate per hour with a maximum […]
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Teardown of the photomultiplier tube assembly (PMT) and its high voltage power supply. The high voltage power supply and PMT is reverse-engineered. The PMT will be used as a cosmic ray detector with a scintillation plastic crystal in front of the PMT. Part 1 is the Teardown of a AGFA ADC 5155 x-ray image scanner
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The laser scanner and photomultiplier tube assembly made out a good chunk of the weight. The laser and scanner assembly is very heavy. It is on rubber mounts and is a sturdy unit built to minimize any kind of external vibrations. This is the teardown video of the laser scanning module, part 3. Teardown of
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This is the reverse engineering and teardown of a very interesting computer that runs on VME framework developed for the Motorola 68000 series CPUs. It runs a custom operating system called Monitor 4.28 developed by Agfa-Gevaert NV, Belgium.
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Part 1: Teardown of a AGFA ADC 5155 x-ray image scanner / digitizer. Also known as Computerized Radiography (CR) it fulfills the job of scanning a x-ray exposed image plate. It is scanned with a laser beam and extract each pixel illumination with a photomultiplier tube setup. This particular unit has a very interesting computer
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A look into what the future brings of projects, teardowns and power electronics. Simple, complex, small and large, there will be it all, stay tuned! In this tour around the electronics lab and work shop, we get to see the tube amplifier, Arduino temperature logger, GPS stratum 0 clock, Tesla Coils, x-ray machines, high power
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I give an overview of a 65kW X-ray generator system for a 70 kV X-ray transformer. The full-bridge of 400A 1200V IGBT bricks makes for a powerful inverter to drive the ferrite cored high voltage transformer.
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I go through my collection of iron/ferrite core high voltage transformers. MOTs, OBITs, NSTs, PTs and X-ray transformers. Microwave Oven-, Oil burner ignition-, neon sign- potential- and x-ray transformers. I forgot to add the old and new flyback transformers I have… somewhere…
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