Comment by MisterTea

7 years ago

This is strange and I happen to work at a facility that does a lot of open air helium mass spectrometer leak testing.

I'm and Android user so I have no skin the the game. I'll have to talk to some people at work tomorrow. A few guys are iPhone users and work in direct proximity to the helium leak testing stations or use them as well. I know a woman in the office didn't like her iPhone because of numerous problems but I never thought to press her for details.

Would the helium concentration in air actually get high enough to cause problems? As far as I understand leak testing, you don't need a lot of helium for that to work.

  • Not much at all but some of the knuckleheads try to speed up the process and crank the pressure until the helium probe is more of a blow gun.