The invention relates to external ball passage detecting method and device for a ball-
bed high temperature gas cooled reactor, which belong to the technical field of fuel element detection of the ball-
bed high temperature gas cooled reactor. The method is characterized by comprising the following steps of: inducing the pass of balls by two
self induction coils in a
resonance bridge detecting circuit, and outputting sinusoidal alternating
voltage delta U; sequentially amplifying, rectifying and filtering the sinusoidal alternating
voltage delta U by a
signal processing circuit, then extracting a ball passing waveform UO, and outputting a
wave crest pulse UP1 and a
wave trough pulse UP2 after passing through a
comparator; and inputting the data into a singlechip, and judging whether a ball passes according to conditions, wherein the
resonance bridge detecting circuit comprises the two
self induction coils, two oppositely installed semicircular columns surrounding at the outer side of a pipeline are used as the frameworks of the
self induction coils, two semicircular coils are respectively up and down wound on the framework at each side, the two semicircular coils on the same plane of the frameworks at both sides are used as a group, and each group is equivalent to a single
circular coil through
external connection. The detecting device has the advantages of simple structure, high accuracy, good reliability and the like.