A versatile system has been developed for the TL-reader of geological samples by using a personal computer system combined with a ceramic heater and a photon counting technique. A handy heater stack consisting of four ceramic heater plates was operated to ensure constant heating rate by applying phase-control circuit up to 400°C to a normal laboratory AC-power supply in order to obtain the TL-results as quantitatively as possible. From the results of the artificially irradiated quartz, a small amount of sample like 5 mg was verified to be applicable to obtain useful geochronological and geothermal information.