Re: DppMCA vs Theremino
Charles,
The peak between your Fe esc and the Am label isn¡¯t La I eyeballed and the centroid at 4.5 appears to be a Ti Ka. If the cal is off just a bit it could be the Fe esc although it appears to
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Dude
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#938
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Re: DppMCA vs Theremino
George, here is the .mca that I used for this example and will use to try
and replicate the process with DppMCA.
Charles
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Charles David Young
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#937
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Re: DppMCA vs Theremino
Charles,
I assume this was slider cal¡¯d. Why is Fe escape in the Am button? Or are these 2 different buttons? What Am energy is it? This is quick and dirty but can still miss a lot of stuff. You
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Dude
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#936
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Re: DppMCA vs Theremino
I have a copy here someplace but it would be old and haven¡¯t used it in awhile.
Its available at
https://www.jimfitz.co.uk/fitzpeak.htm
Dud
Sent: Sunday, March 8, 2020 8:53 AM
To:
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Dude
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#935
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Re: DppMCA vs Theremino
"Regarding the possibility of confusing Nb peaks with others, the precise alignment of all available emission lines for Nb pretty much eliminates this."Thanks, it's really good to hear that, and I'll
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GEOelectronics@...
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#934
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Re: Si-PIN with a view
That's a nice graphic display too Dud, simple, direct. "Why does the DppMCA software limit you to 411? Is it a gain setting problem?"Correct, the last allowed click position for course gain is
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GEOelectronics@...
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#933
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Re: Si-PIN with a view
Geo,
Very good on the cal procedure and like every other laboratory procedure spot checks and end of day are essential. The Ba 133 gives other useful lines to double check the Ecal with. A Fe-55 and
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Dude
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#932
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Re: DppMCA vs Theremino
Thanks, George.
Regarding the possibility of confusing Nb peaks with others, the precise
alignment of all available emission lines for Nb pretty much eliminates
this. Attached is the same scan with
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Charles David Young
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#931
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Re: DppMCA vs Theremino
Nice presentation Charles, thanks, and in only a few minutes- that's good. Wow, that Si-PIN really gives a ton of data points.
One suggestion, make duplicate run, without exciter. Make sure Nb peaks
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GEOelectronics@...
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#930
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Re: DppMCA vs Theremino
If I'm really into getting all I can from the analysis step, I use
FitzPeaks. You can store the file from Theremino in the appropriate format
and import it into FitzPeaks. I don't see this analysis
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W0LEV
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#929
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DppMCA vs Theremino
Based on Dud's encouragement I will try and use DppMCA for analysis. To be
clear, I tried it previously when I first got the Amptek system and got
discouraged. I'll give it another try and document
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Charles David Young
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#928
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Re: Si-PIN with a view
Thanks Dud, With Si-PIN the evolved calibration procedure for general scans here has evolved into what may become my standard.The "stage is set" for a range of 0-61 keV, 4096 channels.5.9 keV the Mn
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GEOelectronics@...
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#927
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Re: Si-PIN with a view
Geo,
Bringing in an old .mca file will use the old cal. It seems the Ecal in the View / preferences tab only works for a new acquisition. If you need to change an old cal you¡¯ll need to reenter the
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Dude
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#926
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Re: Si-PIN with a view
Charles,
I for the life of me can¡¯t understand your thinking. You have a $7,000 professional Si-Pin spectrometer system and software that is designed specifically to determine elemental unknown¡¯s
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Dude
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#925
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Re: Si-PIN with a view
My gear is tied up with some LONG runs, closing on 100 hours, but I'm working on my libraries between chores.Geo
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GEOelectronics@...
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#924
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Re: Si-PIN with a view
Here is the .mca that I am now pointed to in View menu / Preferences. BTW,
just pointing to a .mca file here is kind of buggy. I eventually had to
enter it manually.
The E cal is 4 peaks and it is
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Charles David Young
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#923
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Re: Si-PIN with a view
"Instead it uses the E cal of a specific .mca file that you have to point to in the View menu / Preferences."GOOD TO KNOW THAT!I've been struggling with that same issue...¡.THANKS Charles!George
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GEOelectronics@...
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#922
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Re: Si-PIN with a view
All that being said I can see the value of having a precise E cal saved in
my .mca files so that others can view them in DppMCA with the minimum of
hassle. What had eluded me until now was how DppMCA
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Charles David Young
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#920
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Re: Si-PIN with a view
" These spectra are wrong as well. It appears you have a bad energy cal
that you were using."
Sorry, but my Theremino image of these spectra speaks for itself. The
energy cal over the entire range
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Charles David Young
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#919
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Re: Si-PIN with a view
Charles,
These spectra are wrong as well. It appears you have a bad energy cal that you were using.
This is the Ag cal on 2/24/202
START_TIME - 02/24/2020 04:58:50
SERIAL_NUMBER -
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Dude
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#918
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