Remember my smashed detector? So that ionizer I bought also turned out to be not the photoionizer that also produces x-ray variety. 

It's pretty clever still though. Instead of an x-ray source, it has a high voltage connected to these rails which are separated by spikes. The spikes are too far to produces sparks, but close enough to ionize the air between them somewhat. I guess. The fan blows it away and the whole thing is put together durably and even has a little spinable brush that cleans the needles for you.

No x-rays though unfortunately... 

so I won this for a bit less than I thought I would and now it's my replacement. I know the x-rays are soft and pretty weak, but it's so small and it would be so cute together with my tinyass detector. When I get one that works...


And for that I'll hopefully have to thank a fellow ebayer, the one who left the only legitimate feedback for the smashed one I bought. I sent him a message and he mentioned it seemed to work but he stopped the project and I pestered him for it and he actually made a listing for me! Turned out to be two actually. Score! 

I also have another one coming from the original seller, for 50% off. So I will have a combo of 4 of the same model, at least one of which has smashed cmos. Should be able to put them all together and get at least one to work, right?