What do you use to make a dome for homemade incident meter?

Chan Tran

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I have a sensor that I want to use to make the exposure meter. What should I use to make the dome to use it as incident meter? I prefer something small like 10 or 15mm.
 

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For PIR sensors you can buy separate domes. These will probably work perfectly in this application and seem to fit your requirements. The small type has a diameter of about 5mm.
 

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Arts and crafts store didn’t have anything good. I got a broken one from eBay and took the little part of that.
 

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Half a ping pong ball.

A bit large, but still very similar to a diffusion dome on a incident meter.
 
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Yes I think a used dome is a good idea. I have a Minolta dome that has the bayonet broken. I tried it out and it works great. Now I have to figure out how to put all stuff together to build the meter.
 
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