I am very interested in a kit but I have some questions first before I can place an order.

1) Does it include the transformer core and the winding wire?

2) Does it include a PCB (printed circuit board) or just perf board?

3) Is the microprocessor in a PDIP package (easy to solder) or one of the smaller packages (difficult to solder)?

4) Will the microprocessor be pre-flashed or will we need a special cable to flash it ourselves?

5) What are shipping charges to:

2955 31 Street South
Lethbridge, Alberta
Canada T1K 6S9

Since Questions and answers is not completely setup yet, I will place the problem here.

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I tried to order a detector but the PayPal contributions page is in British pounds, not euros. Am I doing something wrong or is the contributions page setup wrong?

What is the shipping cost to Hong Kong?

How much is shipping in the EU, i.e. Germany for me, but I think it's the same for all.

And is it cheaper to bundle them, if some of us meet somehow in real life (I don't think shipping a bundle to Germany and then sending them again by parcel inland will be any cheaper)?
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I always get the same price for Europe:

When donating via paypal I'm not getting any chance to put in my shipping address or anything else at all?

Can I donate then contact you with the info ?

When donating via paypal I'm not getting any chance to put in my shipping address or anything else at all?

Can I donate then contact you with the info ?

Bok,

Do you have Javascript enabled in your browser?

The order form worked properly for me, I got address field, country drop down box, etc. Using Firefox 3.6.17.

I'm from the UK, but have lived and worked in the US for 13years now.. :)

I'm just made the donation, but still didn't get anywhere to input the info. I'll PM you the details...

I did 50Euro, a little more than necessary but that's all good :)

Done. I've also posted over at SETI.USA to spread the word..

Will do the same a Free-DC, I suggest others doing it on their boards too ?

Can you keep us up to date on the number of pre-orders you get at all ?

Bok

Sweet. Thanks!

I'm in.

I just sent you via paypal. The form on the main site takes you to paypal. I put in 40 euros (25 for the kit and 15 for mailing). It did not give me a form to fill in address but there was a box for special instructions so i put my address there.

Edit,
40 euros = $58.93 US.

You are still going to provide assembled detectors later, right? I've not ordered yet as my soldering skills are not that great, though I could probably manage it (only soldering is required, not programming the chip, correct?).
If you are not going to supply assembled detectors, I'll order a kit now...

In our case "kit" means that you have connect Geiger tube to board (without or with soldering - depend of you), controller we send programmed. No soldering skills required. For example, my prototype is connected to g. tube using to cables (device side) and using this on tube side*. Another detail is that our kit doesn't have ABS box now, we still looking for cheap and accurate one...

Sorry, I don't know English name of this tool :).

OK, I've placed my order, I hope it's not too late!

Next one confirmed.

FWIW, I just discovered (too late for me) that clicking the Donate link on the BOINC project homepage doesn't let you enter any extra information, but the Donate link on the main project page gives you a chance to enter a message. Didn't see it before as it was off the bottom of the screen.

Al.

It's been 23 here now, I hope you can manage the one more than I said yesterday.
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We call those alligator clips, because it looks like an aligator's mouth with all the teeth. :)
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We called it "krokodylki" which is very similar ;)

Good news on having too many orders.

I got to thinking about what you said about one with a GPS built in. I am wondering why ? Then I was thinking so you can "locate" the sensors, like maybe on a global map.

One problem you might have is exporting the "GPS" version. We have specific restrictions here in the US and I sell boat GPSes but cannot export any outside the US, even though they are made in like Tawian.

Maybe what you can do is just add Lat/Long data fields to the database and our user account information page and let users fill in thier own location. Would be much less costly for users to participate and maybe easier to manage.

I don't like the idea of GPS either, for the reasons Krunchin-Keith mentions. However, expecting volunteers to fill in location information is far from foolproof. Most crunchers probably don't know their latitude and longitude and don't know where to get it. Many will be unaware of the need to manually enter the lat and long in their account information. You can plaster the request to enter the info all over the project website and send them emails requesting the info but some still won't catch on because it's just not a standard thing to do in BOINC. The best way to get their attention and motivate them to enter the lat and long would be to advertise the need all over the website, send them an email or 2 and give them 0 credit for results until they provide the lat and long. But then what if a volunteer moves to a new location? Maybe GPS is the best way. Customs officials will never know what's on the detectors and what they're used for. Just call them a radiation detector and don't mention the GPS capability. You'll fly right under the radar.

I wonder how Quake-Catcher keeps tabs on their crunchers' locations?

If you don't own a gps already, try the intenet, it has dozens of locate me things
example:
itouchmap

I don't really want to use my exact location anyway, but if i used say the center of town, that would pinpoint it, I think, close enough for project use and still protect my address.

The project could just use the "country" the user fills in on registration as a general location unless they fill in something more specific.

The project could do like some projects did, they used it based on ip and did some kind of lookup, I think there is a service that does it, but it would cost the project money. I hunt around for an example and more details on that, I don't remeber off the top of my head where I saw those. .

That is so cool!! I was on Google maps earlier looking for a locator and didn't find one there. Thanks for that link. Now I know the coordinates of my garden shed. It's latitude 49.663638143542784, longitude -112.79833674430847. In degrees/minutes/seconds it's lat 49/39/49.0962, long -112/47/54.0132.

They could lookup our IP addresses but that wouldn't locate us with any precision. For example, if you look up mine you'll see that my IP is in a block of addresses owned by Shaw Cable (my ISP). You can get the street address and phone number of Shaw's network administrator but that could be thousands of kilometers from me. They have offices all over Canada. I suspect Shaw's privacy policy prohibits them from handing out any info about me.

Here's the places for the detectors in my order:

3 of those places will be split, the northernmost one in 6 somewhere up there in the north, the other only in 2, as they live close together and ordered two for one address.
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Here's the places for the detectors in my order:

3 of those places will be split, the northernmost one in 6 somewhere up there in the north, the other only in 2, as they live close together and ordered two for one address.

That's kool.

Did you order a bunch for team-mates or friends in the same area, I guess to save on postage when the project ships them ?

That's kool.

Did you order a bunch for team-mates or friends in the same area, I guess to save on postage when the project ships them ?

I organized this bunch on several German team fora, P3D, S.G, B@H, RKN and some others who read there as well joined in, for example those 6 in northern Germany are from some weather forum, two of it's members are as well active in the S.G- and RKN-Forum.
Perhaps we can save even more postage, if one of the polish guys can manage to cross the border for sending them, but I think that would only be the cherry on the cake.

Actually i though of doing this, have a bunch shipeed to me here in the USA, hopefully less cost for a bunch at once than one at a time from Poland, then i would redistribute them here in the USA as i could mail them to any location here for 5 USD, which i think per unit would be less than 15 euros which is about 23 USD even if i added back the one time shipping fee divided over number of units. This might make more US people be inclined to join up. I'll have to think on this some. Maybe after my detector arrives and I see it working.

This is best way for shipping over borders and is also easier to manage for us.
You can slowly looking for friends who would like to get detectors and when we finish first bath, we can manage even bigger second part.

I just check postage prices for parcel up to 5kg (I think, this is enough for 50 detectors, maybe little be less), with value up to 5k PLN (about 1250 euro)to USA. Polish Post web service show cost as about 40 euro (165PLN).

Can we sign up somewhere to get email when we can order detectors again?

Can we sign up somewhere to get email when we can order detectors again?

Can we sign up somewhere to get email when we can order detectors again?

For those in the US send me a PM of your interest.

In case anyone wonders, you can trust me. Check stats, i've been around boinc since 2004, Kaptain of team USA on every project, manager/moderator of team USA website, Moderator at MalariaControl.net, GPUgrid and Correlizer and an alpha tester. I'm pretty committed to boinc and not just another anonymous name.

Can we sign up somewhere to get email when we can order detectors again?

For those in the US send me a PM of your interest.

I'd give him my email address, it's easier to send mails to a list of people than to use PM for that ;)

In case anyone wonders, you can trust me. Check stats, i've been around boinc since 2004, Kaptain of team USA on every project, manager/moderator of team USA website, Moderator at MalariaControl.net, GPUgrid and Correlizer and an alpha tester. I'm pretty committed to boinc and not just another anonymous name.

I'd say: Trust him! I have never seen him personally, but he's around here for quite some time and appears to be trustworthy!

Hello, starting a thread in BOINC.Italy forum

we'll be ready for next pre-order ;)

Hello, starting a thread in BOINC.Italy forum

we'll be ready for next pre-order ;)

Hello friends,
I would like to ask for big order about 30 pieces of detectors for team "Czech National Team".
Possibility of pick up directly in Poland.
Please contact back by email (może być polski).
Thanks.

That's a lot of parts and a lot of soldering. Does Szopler have a wave soldering machine or will they all be done with an iron?

Is there an estimated date for shipments yet? Maybe I missed it?
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Great news, thanks! I'll start looking for a box to put it in ;)

Great news, thanks! I'll start looking for a box to put it in ;)

Thank you for the info and your work.

We have found a bug in controller and fix it.
If tests not shows any more bugs we will start sending detectors tomorrow (half of batch) then rest of them during next week.

We have found a bug in controller and fix it.
If tests not shows any more bugs we will start sending detectors tomorrow (half of batch) then rest of them during next week.

Hello,

when is the next detector's pre-ordering ?

Thank you