Hello everyone, I am hope and will be helping moderate today's webinar. I would like to welcome everyone to enhancing radiation safety. Introducing the IC3 Handheld Ion Chamber webinar presented by Perry White, Product Line Manager for Telemetry Products. Perry has been with Maryann for over 14 years. He has a health physics background and extensive knowledge and experience in the nuclear power industry. Before we get started today, I'd like to go over some housekeeping. At the top left of your screen is our Q&A chat box. Please ask questions throughout the presentation and we will answer as many as possible within our time constraints. Below this is our resource list with more documentation on what we will discuss today. Here you will also find a link to the IC 3 landing page. On this page we have a new button that says now available for purchase online. 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You know, as part of the introduction, I just let people know that we work with other partners and one of our partners is Rotem Industries and we've been working with them to develop this new ion chamber for several years now. We've actually been showing prototypes and getting feedbacks for well over a year, probably well over two years at this point in time. And even since we got the initial production units, we continue to do testing both ourselves and our customers. And the goal is of course to make sure that when we finally did release it, that it would meet all of our customer expectation and we do believe it has. So certainly we think it's been successful and we think that you'll be happy if you get this IC 3 and it will meet or exceed your expectations. So without further ado, we'll get into the specifics. So we're going to talk about some of the main features to start with. Again, the the IC 3 is in general is a vented ion chamber. It's battery operated as auto ranging. It's like all an chains. It's very, very wide energy response, flat energy response. It can do obviously gamma, X-ray and beta radiation. The first bullet point here is probably the key to the whole IC three that's makes it unique compared to other ion chambers is the electrometers inside or the components inside have special sealing on them that prevents them from being impacted by high humidity areas. So there's no desk and required at all in it. So you never have to replace desk and you never have to do maintenance. You never have to bake it to get the moisture out. All that maintenance is gone. Now with the IC3, it also has a barrier as you can see a very large backlit color display. It's the exact same display that's on our Telepole 2. If you have seen the Telepole 2, it's the same display, similar menus, different options, but very, very similar menu type thing. So it'll be very simple and easy transition as far as that goes. The chamber is pressure and temperature compensated, so adjust the readings based on elevation etcetera. We call it ideal for NDT and medical because it does such a great job at the pulsed X-ray. So certainly down to the 50 nanoseconds, it gives you very, very good readings all the way down there. And again, realize that pulse X-rays and what you're reading is mainly integrated dose type of systems, not necessarily per SE rate. And we can talk a little bit about more about that later. So it does have a wide measuring range all the way to $100 per hour, which is higher than most. And it also can be said, as you can see on the picture, it can be set for either SI units or US units. So let's talk about display a little bit. Again. As I mentioned, it is a a really really large color back display and it has a lot of indications and functions assailable with it. The backlight itself is key because it has 6 brightness levels, which means even when you go outside in the bright days, you can still see the meter and that's always an issue with a lot of the digital instruments that it's hard to see in the bright sunlight. This gives you the capability to even do that with the brightest sunlight. In addition to that, when you're going in and out of different areas, while you can't set the brightness level manually, there's an automatic function as well. And this automatic function has a little light sensor on it. So as the the ambient light changes, so will the actual backlight on the IC3 to kind of eliminate some of the battery usage you would have on the higher brightness levels. In addition to that, it has an accelerometer built into it that will allow it to allow the screen to go to sleep if it's not being used. So technician finishes the survey, sets it down on the table, after a certain period of time it's actually going to go to sleep or not. The display will go to sleep and blank out. So it's no longer using the battery would to get the actual backlit working or keep the backlight working. Now it's only blanking display. The meter is actually still fully functional even when the display is asleep. So if you have it out there and you're sending telemetry data out on it, it's still going to be sending the telemetry data out. If you're connecting it to computer, it's still going to be sending data out through the computer. So it only deflects, only affects the display only. So this is a little example of how the automatic display works. And this is Chris putting his finger over it. And you see it dims down when he changes, when he covers up the actual light sensor first fairly quickly and easy and again, designed to save battery level. So next we're going to talk a little bit about the alarms that are on there. And again, we always try to have alarm features on there because a lot of times technicians are busy doing other things. I may not notice when rates change. So we have a several different color alarms that have this border around the actual screen, which will change color based on the dose rates that you're in. It's typically set up in the RMBC software, which you'll see up in here. This is where you would actually set the thresholds up in RMBC. And you can see there's two thresholds for if it's below this, it's green, it's between the two, each yellow and it's above the the second threshold to it goes red. In addition to that, there's what's called a user threshold was an actual alarm. So while these are basically giving you more color code, when you reach the user threshold, it will actually alarm and notifying you, you've exceeded a rate that you you did not want to exceed. So you'll be able to see that as well. And this should be a quick a quick video clip of that. And once again, thank Chris for doing all these little videos. There you go. Put the source under it and it goes into alarm. It's not something you're going to ignore for sure if that happens. Next we want to talk about is the menu options on it. Again, the the display has the capability of 12 different menu options or functions that you can use with it. And you can see again, and I'll do this here, this is the menu selection from the RNBC and that's where you would use the little pull down buttons and choose your menu selections. Typically these are done basically well, two ways. First of all, that could be done by the site based on what they wanted you to see, or it can be done by the end user to say these are the functions I mostly use. So typically when I set mine up, this is at the bottom. I typically set mine up like this. I have the worm, the speaker, and the the brightness on the the first one because I use those most almost unbearably. If I use the worm function, which is you'll see that right here, sorry, right there instead of me, that's the worm function you'll see that goes to telemetry. And then the other one is the speaker function that's highlighted there. You see that when the speaker is on. And then for brightness, you can see over here that it's giving you the actual brightness level on whichever you're actually doing. So those are the first 3 functions, the next three functions. And again, these are an arbitrary roller that I put mine in. We have the freeze function. And what this is for is for basically surveying radway surveys or hotspot surveys where you're trying to find the highest dose rate possible. And so it just continues to go higher and higher, higher and never go back down. So whatever the highest rates you've seen during this period of time you have the freeze on will be what's on the actual display. And again, you see the little snowflake here indicating it's on the freeze section or the see the freeze function. The next one we're talking about is the range function and that is in this case you'll see it says HR. It would normally say WR for wide range. In this case we selected the actual range and when you did that it changed it to automatically to go to the high range function. We'll talk a little bit about the two ranges at a few slides down the road, but Needless to say, there are certain conditions and where you'd want to start off at a high range. If you're going into an area that you have you're fairly sure has high dose rates, you don't want to walk into the area. And then basically if like you had an analog meter, you're on the the times one scale, you walk into the area and it over range, over range, over ranges and you keep switching scales. You don't do that. You go in on the high range scale. So you start on the highest range. If it's still low, you can switch it back over or put it back to wide range. But this gives you the indication right away. There's no delays getting to the high range dose rate once you get in there. The other reason for the high range function is for pulsed X-ray uses because as you know, pulsed X-rays do not, even though the iron chamber sees pulse X-rays and can actually measure dose from pulse X-rays very, very well, they don't measure rate from pulsed X-rays that well, especially higher dose rates. So in the cases where you're going into an area that has pulsed X-rays and not necessarily nuclear plant area, although there are some NDT times where you would actually see the pulse or X-rays. But if you were, you would put it on the high range. So you would make sure you would get the correct readings to start with rather than have to worry about it even trying to switch because the rates are not going to be as easily measured as the actual dose is. And the the last function I have on this one is analog. And you actually can see this is the analog portion of the screen. So there's a number of things that can be displayed on the bottom of this. They can be dosed. There's a number of different things. You can see grass and all that things can be sprayed on there. This is showing an analog version of it. And the whole point of this, even though I don't like analog, I don't like digital analog scales. What this function is useful for is it's it's being displayed before the smoothing algorithm. So if you're walking along, especially in lower background areas, and you can see indications before they even affect the actual meter change itself because again, it's a smoothing algorithm. So it takes a little while to see the meters go up, especially in lower dose rates. The next two pages are probably not as used as the others, but there are several very, very important functions to it. The 1st and probably most important function on the the next six of them is the calibration function. While you can calibrate the IC3 with the RMVC software, you don't have to. You can literally go to the calibration function, put it in your dose rate that you're going to put for the F value, get your reading, and with the calibration function, adjust the F factors to get the reading correctly. Just all manually with the actual display itself. Most people calibrate it with the RNBC software, but you don't have to. It's almost just as easy to calibrate it directly from the meter. The dose function which I mentioned earlier, it's a simple related accumulated or integrated dose. Excuse me, it's not used or not, but again, if you are using pulsed X-rays or dealing with pulsed X-rays, it's, it will behoove you to be able to have this type of function because that is the most accurate reading way to read pulsed X-rays to get the dose and or dose rate based on the dose. So that's always important to have. And then the thresholds are something you see on the top right. Those are why you can see them in RNBC. If you're not sure what they are, you can look at them on the actual meter itself and you can change them on the meter if you need to as well. So that gives you the additional functionality. Graphing is just a graph. The storage we'll talk a little bit about, but if you see the top right on the top picture there, that 100 is telling you that's how many storage units are left. You start with 200 and you can store up to 200 different readings on the ion chamber and then go back and you can download them and use them. If you don't have time to write it down or whatever, just want to store it, you can manually store up to 200 readings and then download it later. And then the sleep function, we already spoke about what that does. So now we're going to do a quick look at how the calibration function works. You know, if I mentioned the, the video is not going to be as big as what the screen is, so I apologize that you can make it bigger if you need to. And that was it. So you started the Cal function you saw go to that possible F values and that's all you have to do. And this is the one for the dose function. So when you press the dose function, you see the dose and on this bottom instead of the other information that's displayed. And then by pressing and holding the dose button a second time, it will actually reset the integrated dose back so you can start over and do another test on it. So now I want to kind of go over some of the basic functions of the IC3. Now again, we spoke a little bit before that, that it is a, it's a live compact instrument. And because it is have a, a plastic molded case, while it is, you know, it is plastic, it's a very, very durable case. It's just lighter than metal. And even though there's always issues about what's better, you know, metal or plastic and there's benefits of both. And I've gone back and forth. I certainly remember the old, I won't even mention the name was, but the old and chambers we used to use were very, very durable. The newer ones not so much. So metal case or not, this is actually a very durable case with it. It's a fiber reinforced plastic. It has a cushion ring on the bottom and it is typically weighted so it will fall toward the bottom side of it and that will prevent as much shock as possible with it. The the ring around the bottom extends around the whole bottom. It's not just little feet that may or may not hit whatever it is typically it is going to hit the ring when it drops and so it will give you at least some cushioning effect on that. It does have the the little rings attached to it. So not only is it lightweight, but like all most all ion chambers, you can put a strap on and carry it around your around your shoulder when you're doing your surveys like all of the ion chambers. And then when it has a compared to our previous version of the ion chamber, it has a new Mylar and grid window that provides excellent beta response. And the the little graph at the bottom gives you the idea of what the correction factors are for the the three key isotopes we would typically measure through them. In addition, you can see the the one picture up here with the bottom removed and this shows you after you pull that top off the the actual window itself fairly easy removes from the bottom case and can be replaced if damaged or need be. So simple maintenance to fix that if you want to. I do want to. If we're talking about beta, I'm going to touch a little bit on something. Is the beta calibration or an automatic beta correction. It's always been asked for, but in the the iron chamber is designed to have this basic function to be able to put a a factor in there or calibrate a factor in there. But the reason why most of the time it's not used the fact that there is no way to get a net reading from it. You can't subtract the beta and then use the factor. You just going to get the factor when the window opens. So there are certain applications were to be useful, but most of the applications and nuclear power plants you typically want to get a net reading on that. So there's more about it in the manual, which is going to be part of the actual documents that hope we'll talk about at the end that are all available for you to download. There's also a sensor on the beta slide window and that sensor does two things. First of all, it will tell you if it's an open window, it'll show gamma and beta on the actual display. And I'm sorry, I do not have that display on there. The the door is actually covering up what would normally be on that one picture. And then of course, if the window is closed, it will say gamma only. So at least you know if it's open or closed window without having to turn the meter upside down and look at it and go, oh, the other thing the centre does is if you actually use the window, you open the window, you got your reading and then you try to close it and you didn't completely close it. It will tell you the window is partially open. You're not getting an accurate reading. Do one or the other. You know, you don't want to be a gamma and partial beta. So it'll definitely let you know when that occurs and you'll you'll hear that. And the next one we do. So now we'll go to a couple short videos. This is the beta alarm window. It's quite noisy. It definitely will alert you that you left it open. The next thing we're going to look at is the more of the power functions of the IC3. It does use just 4A, a standard A alkaline batteries. It can last up to 100 hours and you'll see a little. This is the calculated time for it. So when sleep mode mode and level 1 brightness, you've got about 100 hours of calculate operational time to it. This has been tested too, but didn't test every actual function for every actual one, but these are the actual times and they are fairly close. The battery cover itself you can see has an extra latch on it, which is here and you'll see it over the case right there. That lash will again this used to so you don't accidentally flop the battery cover open and the batteries fall. It's an FME concern. So we have an extra secure function on the battery cover to prevent them from falling out for FME issues. There's Ausb cover and I can't you can't really see it on that one. I thought it was, but you can't quite see it. There's AUSB connections, usbc connection for the bottom of it and allow you to actually power it. So if you want to leave it out, I mean don't want to change batteries all the time, you can plug it into a USB cord and power it and leave it out there as an area monitor if you'd like. You can, if you're just starting an hourage and you're doing a lot of the venting, you can put two of them out there having one open one closed window together and know if you have a a gas issue in containment. So one of the things you can actually do with them. And again, remember this is all got telemetry. And so it's sending this data all back to you lifetime, which is the key to all of what we do here in area. There's also an automatic 0 function on startup when you get the meter that'll say adjusting offset, which is basically there's zero function to it. And then the last thing I mentioned already is it has to get the wide range up to 100 R.E.M. per hour. And it actually has two different scales or basically two different amplifiers for the different measuring range. In this case, as the dose rates go up and exceed 250 milligram per hour, you can see down there it will actually swap to the high range. You'll see a slight delay just like anything else when you're changing ranges, you'll see a slight delay for a second and then it'll swap to the high range going back down. You can see it going at a When it goes back down below the 250, it'll actually go all the way to 170 in high range and then swap back down because you want to have some kind of overlap so you're not flopping back and forth. If you haven't, if you have a dose rate right around 250 milligram per hour, you don't want to keep flopping back and forth. So this gives you the opportunity to have a range so that kind of thing does not occur. And the next feature on the connectivity is our worm telemetry capability. As we do almost all of our instruments, we try to have that type of worm telemetry because I mean really for Mirion, at least in North America, we're, we're known a lot for our telemetry systems and at least in nuclear power plants for sure. So this is going to have the same type of worm telemetry that we would have on our other instruments. The telepole has it, the DRM has it. Other instruments from wrote them also use the same type of telemetry capabilities. And so this will be the exact same. There's no need to add a new protocol. This is going to use a single packet protocol that's already being used, that's already used on all the existing telemetry systems out there in North America. So you don't do anything. If you order with the worm module and they're they're currently there's two-part numbers, one's with and without the worm telemetry. If you order it, as soon as you turn the worm button on, it will start transmitting out. And so we will see that next. Did I hit the button? All right, I must have hit it. Sorry. Let me go back. My fingers were moving around. I must have hit this wrong. All right, let's try it again. The. Video's just played. Oh, the video player all right there. But then you saw it see they just play. So yeah, he turns it on and as soon as he turns it on, you'll see the green lights flashing on. Awm, it's seeing the data come in. So that's it, just very short video just showing you how it works. And again, currently the only connectivity we have is the worm telemetry. But the design for the IC 3 was to allow us not only to do just our standard worm, but to also be able to do Bluetooth telemetry so that we can actually add the IC3 to our app. I'm mostly aware we have an app that we use for the RDS 32 that allows it to go to Rad Responder. It will allow it to go to our spearview software. It'll allow you to literally send text message or emails of data and information straight out to you from the app. But the biggest concern we have is people go, hey, if I'm doing emergency response, I want to use an ion chamber. And so now we're making the IC3 available to join the app by actually putting the same Bluetooth protocol from the IC three that we use in the RDF. So as soon as that's function is added, it'll go straight to the RDS app and you can use it just as you would the RDS. It'll be just the same. The other thing we're adding to it, which is a little bit more unique than just that, it's the fact we're adding our ultra wide band radio in it. The ultra wide band radio we use is for our Orion telemetry RTOS or lifetime tracking system that gives you the ability to actually have fairly accurate dose rate readings up within 1m capability of the ion chamber as it goes to areas that are covered with our anchors and the Orion system that's in coverage. And when you add the location to the worm data which is sent out, again, the UWB is completely severed from warm or Bluetooth. So you will have the worm capability with the UWB. So you'll be sending out both location information and dose rate information at the same time. That data is all stored. We can give you allow you to make heat maps of it with the Orion system, or you can even save the data and come back and create surveys based on it because it saves every location and function that's actually occurring with the the the UWB in the worm radio. So the next one basically is a overview of the ecosystem. And we, we always talk about telemetry in North America because it least, and again, my industry is nuclear power plants, but we always talk about telemetry because it's very, very important in nuclear power plants. So this is just another piece to our whole ecosystem. So we're, we're adding this, it can be, you know, the good part about the iron chamber here is that obviously you can use it for Bluetooth. It can go through our Connect Studio Bluetooth bridge, which can then go to our other telemetry systems, whether it's, you know, our Orion system, whether it's Teleview, whether it's our new vital system that's coming out. All of those will take the same information and be able to display along with other data so you can see everything at your fingertips instead of the having to try to find out data from one piece of software from other pieces of software. But this is just a way to show you how all of these products are all can be put together and intertwine and intermesh. So you can see the capabilities that we can actually do with it. And again, this is just, I actually have a, an ecosystem, one that's probably four or five times as large doing a lot more stuff and a lot larger part of the ecosystem. But again, this is just part of it. It's just basically be aware that we do have a huge ecosystem that does allow the telemetry for almost all of our items. And the last slide here is basically the specification slide. It gives you a little, I mean the so the little drawing on the front part you see up here, it just gives you a quick overview of how it's constructed. And, and again, it's a a fairly simple design. Keep it simple, stupid. The the display, all the electronics are all mainly in the the barrel of the ion chamber itself. So all of that's kept together. This board here is mainly designed for the communications for the UWB and the radio. The whole base is replaceable. The gaskets are replaceable. All of it's fairly easy to use the handle not as easily replaceable, but it is replaceable. And of course, you have a single molded housing that's not going to be have screws and things that are going to fall apart. And just be aware all the screws that we have that can be seen or capture screws, which means they're not going to fall out unless you manually pull them all the way out. So there's no FME issues for any of these screws that are actually on the device itself. So it makes it very, very convenient. The little it's funny though, we made a a 3D stand for it. So if you are using a printer, your monitor, you can just sit in the 3D stand and let it sit out there and watch it of the other specifications, just beware there's again, I encourage people to compare with your existing meters and how they use. But you know, certainly we have a fairly large chamber which gives us a, excuse me, a fairly large chamber would get just food efficiency on it. We have the 1000 milligram tissue equivalents slide for deep dose with a window density of 7 milligram, which is your skin density. We have a fairly good response time. We can log data, we have good storage and temperature ranges for it. Obviously humidity range is not a condition because we don't worry about that and it's actually fairly light. It's less than it's 2.2 lbs or 1 kilogram. So certainly it's lighter than most of the other meters out there as well. But again, compare your meters, compare this. These are the specifications we're actually trying to show and explain everything. So the next thing is something that we're asking for you to do to continue to make us improve the meter. We would like to know what features would you or your site find useful? And again, we've talked about a whole lot of different things. So if you would kind of look through these things and if you can for us, please just check mark the ones you think are useful to you. This gives us a lot of good feedback information to allow us to next time we do something or try to explain something, we can actually provide that specific information compared to other things. Again, it's entirely up to you what to do, but we do appreciate anybody that goes through it and does fill out these selections. And we will have one little poll at the end as well. But right now, if you were just kind of walk through these things, I'll kind of keep talking for a little bit as as people walk through and, and click on the functions again, you know, looking at our attendee list when we had, there was not that many MPP per SE as far as the ratio. So you know, obviously the worm telemetry in the BLE may not be as as prevalent for this group, whereas the nuclear power plants it would be. So it, it all depends on the industry. Certain industries use certain functions more than others. And so it's for us very, very useful to find out which industries are meeting which functions. And certainly we can we tailor certain things about those that we do to those industries per SE. Let's just think what all the other functions are on here, the colors, the alarm functions, the beta window and the external. All right, so we've gotten looks like 36 out of 128 submitted right now. So we'll let it go for a little bit longer. I didn't want to mention, you know, I did have a, we talked about the beta window function here and you when you see the manual, we, yeah, we had an initial manual out that talked about how the calibration was and how the beta function does. The, the new manual that's actually attached here gives you a much better indication on on what that means and how that actually works. So when you see the manual, you'll be able to understand better about the actual beta functions and what works at. OK, we'll give it a couple more minutes and let's see what else on here. Yeah. Oh and by the way, and the not only is the the manual on there, the the websites on there for the cut sheets on there. And when you go to the website, you'll also see the download capability for the RNBC software. So if you get the IC 3 or but if you have any other instance, you already have the RNBC, but you can download the RNBC software to be able to use it directly from the website as well. So you don't have to worry about buying it. It's all free, nothing you need to do for there. And then you know there's no special cable. It's a standard USBC cable to go from the computer to the IC3. And again, if you I know there's, there's several questions coming in and if anybody needs to actually see a picture of the IC3 lifetime, one of our are are people on here, Chris is going to be answering the questions. He'll actually have the the IC three if you need to see anything. So if you want to look at look at something specifically on it, he can certainly show the one that he has with them to be able to provide that information. All right, so we're at about 50%. It's slowing down. So let's go to let's move to the next slide. Hope well least can they still make these selections when I move forward. I need to wait. They cannot make selections once you move forward, but if they missed out and go back and watch on demand, you can still submit your responses. I just got a couple more responses. I waited. I waited a little bit longer. We got plenty of time. That's what I said. It's a, it's a fairly short presentation. Don't want to take out people's time. We don't need to, but it would be good to get any information we can. So, all right, so it looks like we got over half. I haven't seen anybody submit it for a while, so let's move on. Then again, you can go back and submit your questions if you go back and watch the webinar from the website and still do the same thing. Take as much time as you want them. OK, so now I'm going to turn it over to Chris to answer the myriad of questions that appeared to have come in while I was speaking. Chris, it's all yours, brother. Sounds good. Thank you. Perry and I might refer to you on a few of these, but we had several questions come in so I apologize if we don't get to your question on here. After this webinar is complete, we'll get the list of questions. And if we don't answer yours during this session right here, we'll make sure we get an answer back to you so you get an answer to what you're looking for. So going through the questions, first one I'll answer here. Is there a warm up time after power up or after the automatic 0 is ready to be used? So if you go through the manual, you'll see there's a 10 up 10 minute warm up time for the instrument. It does go through the zero check at the beginning, but 10 minutes warm up for the instrument to be completely ready. And let me click that one. There we go. I do want to mention something about that now that that's absolutely true. When we looked at that, we thought that was high. Then we looked back at the other ion chambers out there and they actually have the same type of things, a fairly long warm up time. But that's really only applicable for very, very low dose rates anyway. So typically people are not going to use and wait 10 minutes for it. But it is true, that is a true warm up time for it. But that is not an unusual warm up time for an ion chamber, which something I didn't learn till we started looking at this. Same here, Perry, thank you for chiming in on that one. Next question here is will each user be able to set the threshold while checking out the instrument or after response check has been performed? So for thresholds, there's a few different ways to set them. One way you can do it through the RMVC software, which is a fairly quick process. The other way, as Perry showed, you can set it directly on the instrument. So that's something you'd be able to set out in the field. If you grab the instrument one to set your threshold 1, you can set your user threshold for that alarm value. You can set that in the instrument as well. Another one here is the unit available in the UK market. Just quick answer on this one. Yes, it is. There's several options as far as the UK market goes, but it is available in the UK market for purchase. I will mention we, we focus mainly on North America in the initial launch, but it is going to be a, a worldwide launch. We're just making sure we we work through the the North American market 1st. We push more toward the the UK side. OK, next one here. Is there a specific Auntie standard that there that was references when performing the testing listed for the IC3 set specifications? So the Auntie standard was Auntie 42.174217 and 4217. Sorry, got a long list here. So I'm trying to go there and click them all three go. All right, we had a question here is the IC3 rad responder ready? So as Perry talked about, we are working on the Bluetooth module for the IC3. That's what'll give it access to the application that is in the works. I don't have a specific date, Perry may have a date that that's well a rough time estimate when that'll be available. But once that's available then that can push to rad responder and the instrument will be rad responder ready. Perry, do you have a timeline on that roughly? Yeah. I, I don't, we're, we're really, we're focusing a lot on getting the initial launch done. And once all this is worked out, then we'll jump back on that. I would expect it to be done this year, certainly by the end of the year. But we, we actually stopped that process at the end of last year to finish the final release parts of it for this year. So it'll we'll jump it back on there probably in the June time frame after all this is initial launch has gone over. OK, it looks like we had somebody join a little bit late. They asked if the instrument was a sealed ion chamber, open air. This is a vented ion chamber, the no desk and I'll also get into another question here. So it's a vented iron chamber, but it does not require desk and that's really due to the coding on the electronics and we went through it a little bit on the specification. So, but it is a vented iron chamber. Let's see. All right. We had a question that brought up the telepo twos and accelerometer and asked if the accelerometer and the sleep function is improved since that time. So I have this IC 3 on my desk right now and I will say that it is very sensitive to the touch. So it's very, very good. It goes to sleep and if you barely touch it, it does wake back up. The sleep function and the accelerometer are working very good in this instrument as far as going to sleep at the right time. Once you grab it to lift it up, it's already waking back up. So it is significantly improved over previous versions of accelerometers and with the sleep function, we had a question here, can the low end range go below .1 Miller and per hour down in the background? So as you'll see in some various pictures, it is below that .1 Miller and per hour as far as what it's showing on the face, what we test to on this Instagram and what it's what we call the measurement range is really the accuracy ranges from that .1 milligram up to 100 R.E.M. per hour. Perry, I don't know if you want to add anything additional to that. Yeah. I mean, I obviously it can go down to .01 if you wanted to, but unfortunately the accuracy of .01, it's not enough to meet the standards for the response. So we don't say it goes down there and that's how you qualify those. It's just qualified based on the response and it only has the the adequate response down to the point. 1, we just had another. Thanks Perry. We just had another question coming in. Is there a special tooling needed to change out the Mylar special tooling? No. So on the bottom, if I remember correctly, there is 8 screws on the bottom that you removed to pull off the bottom cover. It is just your standard torque set that I can't remember the exact size, it might be like AT 9:00. But you pull out those screws, the bottom lifts off, you replace that mylar window and you're able to put the new mylar back in, close it back up and it's ready to go again. So no special tool thing tooling besides that. Let's see another one here is the third party type testing done. So third party type testing is currently in progress. We expect that to be completed within the next few months and we'll be able to share that one that's completed, but it is in progress at this time. I think Perry answered this during the presentation, but can IC3 be used as an RE monitor? Yes, it can. And once you have the batteries in, you can actually power it from that USBC port on the back so you can provide power to the instrument while it's on the field. And as Perry said, there's even a mount that we can use. You said 3D printed Mount Perry, is that correct? Yeah, yeah. But we just 3D printer want to sorry. Let's see if we answered that. Perry and Dave, can you go through the list of questions, see if there's something I missed on here? Let's see. Does it function well lower colder temperatures? It it's within the range, as long as it's within range, it'll function appropriately. I mean that's why we have the ranges tested to those specific temperatures. Pulsing X-ray detection is available. How high pulse frequency can it detect? Actually it'll detect down to 50 nanoseconds is the the highest frequency can detect. Can you ICB use as contamination monitor screen food samples then? No, the no, it does not have any capability to identify radar with nucleolides at all. It's simply an ion chamber. It doesn't have gamma spec capability, any correction factor options available, any threshold changing? Yeah, we talked about that some. Peter Nam, there is some correction factor capability. It's in the manual and certainly we can talk more about it if you have additional questions on it. Greg said it is available now. Yes, it is available now. The lead time is probably four to six weeks at this point in time. Can it be used for nuclear medicine? What's that? Yeah, I just said, I just saw one come in. Does it have location tracking in it for Orion? That turn radio is in the works as well. That's being worked on. So that will be available probably by the end of this year as well, as long as well as the Bluetooth. So that will be available in Orion once that's released. And one of the things that was asked, I think that Perry did mention it, Chris as well, but it is available today. It's actually been available for a little bit now. So it is absolutely available today. The application that it would interface to for rad responder is also available today. It actually supports our RDS 32. It's only the Bluetooth module that would be the delay on there. So if somebody wanted to buy the unit and replace the radio when it comes out, it's just obviously the single screw you, you remove the cover, you install the radio and you would be Bluetooth capable at that time and fully operational. So yeah, at least everything is there and ready. Yeah, good point, Dave. Yeah, even if you're even if it's not ready now, it's simply a matter of dropping the new radio in and it will be ready at that point in time. So yeah, good point. There's one going to be used for nuclear medicine and absolutely it is. It is used for nuclear medicine and it can use for almost any type of diagnostics, pulsed X-ray high energies, I mean for like the linac machines and nuclear medicines that have very, very high energy X-ray capability and pulsed X-rays. It's probably the the main instrument that's used for, for checking dose rates and linac type machines as well. Any other questions we're missing? If we didn't get your question, we certainly can. We'll send you the answers even after this as well. Anything left on? That the only one that came in again is on the radio Perry for the current radio that is available for the for the Worm 2 architecture that is that is available today, it is an option. You can either buy the unit and install it afterwards or as you mentioned during your presentation, Perry. You can also buy it with an installed and ready to go. It is extremely quick to install. It's preferable you buy it with the radio because it, if you buy the radio separately from us, it's, well, we don't typically sell those radios separately because it's a proprietary radio. So it's preferable you buy it with the radio because it has to be programmed for the IC3 anyway. So yeah, best to buy it with the actual IC 3. And the only other question was on demos and availability for demos and the Salesforce does actually have their demo units they they are rolling out across the Americas already. Europe will also be is reviewing for demos there as well. But we can certainly arrange for that for for those who need it. Just to get in touch with your account managers if you're interested in in getting one to demo it again, they will have their demo equipment and they're, they'll have to set their priorities on who they send their demo equipment to. So we'll have to work that out with them. OK, All right, so let's get the the last slide here. So we do want to thank you for attaining this webinar. This will be my last webinar. So I'm signing off with you. And I wish I had brought a mic to drop because they reminded me after where's your mic to drop? So yeah, I, I retired at the end of April, first part of May. So it'd be my last webinar. And I certainly enjoy work with a lot of people throughout the industry. And it is amazing that we were on a phone conversation from a, a plant in, in Ohio. And one of the people I worked with at Farley, who retired 10 years ago, was there. And so it's hilarious that you still see all the same people. It's a very, very narrow industry in nuclear power. So I'll miss everybody when I'm gone, but I'll still be hanging around even after that. So I appreciate it. And, and Perry, on behalf of everyone here, we actually thank you for all the time and effort both that you put into this product and many, many, many others, as well as your time in the industry and your, your, your chart over on the side suggesting that you're a fish ally is. Incorrect. So it's. Definitely a lie. Yes. Enjoy your fishing. Thank you. Thank you. And the next thing we have, if you remember, there's a don't forget we have the Mirion Connect coming up. Certainly there are the Mirion Connect and after the actual webinar, you'll see other options to sign up for the next webinar as well. And I'll let Hope speak a little bit if she wants to go about that. You stay on once we end the presentation, there'll be pop ups for our next webinar and other various links. If you would like a demo and don't know your account manager, you can click on the contact us and put in a request there and we will make sure somebody gets out to you to demo your the equipment. So thank you everyone, appreciate for joining. All right, thank you, Gary. Thank. You all. We'll see you guys. Bye. Bye.

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