ghpicard wrote:
--- In TekScopes@y..., "Miroslav Pokorni" <mpokorni2000@y...> wrote:
I believe that those digitizers were used to measure all sorts of
parameters
during test, so a number of them was consumed for a single test. My
understanding was that they were lowered down the hole, but somehow
digitizers lived until data was transmitted to a safe location. I
remember
I think it's more probable that the units could reliabily withstand
just one EMP, so why to risk a second EMP with a total data loss when
you could buy a new one...
If the unit become damaged *during* the test, the data, if you could
recover anything at all, would be either garbage or unreliable at all.
Memory circuits (except perhaps ferrite cores) are most sensitive to
gamma rad. Anyway, if using ferrite cores, the M part of the EMP
could make a nice mess with the contents...
Regards
Gaston
I think the "damage" was more likely either the equipment was "hot" with
radiation and had to be buried with the other "hot" residue or it was
actually melted down from the heat of the blast. To acquire some of this
fast data, you needed to be REAL CLOSE to the source of the signals, like
right right on top of it . . .
Stan
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