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Why spectrometers requires calibration??? « on: April 01, 2026, 11:56:20 PM » Author: dor123
This prevents me to use them, as calibrating a spectrometer is very hard. almost like piano tuning, and requires special technicians...
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Re: Why spectrometers requires calibration??? « Reply #1 on: April 02, 2026, 02:29:56 PM » Author: dor123
@RRK, @James, @Medved?
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Re: Why spectrometers requires calibration??? « Reply #2 on: April 02, 2026, 06:04:15 PM » Author: James
Firstly because every individual spectrometer is slightly different.  Secondly because the measured values are strongly influenced by how the light gets into the spectrometer.  Intermediate accessories like optical fibres, diffusers, integrating spheres etc also all have their own unique spectral transmission and reflection curves.  The complete system always has to be calibrated with a known reference lamp to take account for all these variables.
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Re: Why spectrometers requires calibration??? « Reply #3 on: April 02, 2026, 07:33:57 PM » Author: RRK
This prevents me to use them, as calibrating a spectrometer is very hard. almost like piano tuning, and requires special technicians...

Who said it is hard? For Little Garden it is as easy as finding a couple of reference peaks from a familiar light source like a CFL and adjusting them to their proper wavelengths, just to align spectrometer scale to the exact wavelengths. A 5 minutes job.


You likely can't calibrate amplitudes (=powers) properly at all on any webcam spectrometer of such class, so no reliable CCT/CRI no matter how hard you try, but yeah you'll still have a heck of fun with hi-res spectrums for $60 spent! ;)

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Re: Why spectrometers requires calibration??? « Reply #4 on: April 02, 2026, 11:54:21 PM » Author: dor123
I've seen in Youtube how to calibrate the little garden spectroscope, and it is very hard to me to do.
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Re: Why spectrometers requires calibration??? « Reply #5 on: April 03, 2026, 01:37:07 AM » Author: RRK
What part of the process you think is hard? Lighting a CFL lamp? ;)

Anyway, you always can ask a computer literate friend or your father etc to help.

 
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