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#27225 - 04/28/04 05:09 AM Beta lights
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Does anyone know of a U.S. source for the small beta lights? I didn't believe the same restrictions placed on tritium involved the beta lights, but I can't find a U.S. distributor that sells them.

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#27226 - 04/28/04 07:16 AM Re: Beta lights
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This question comes up regularly on Candlepower Forums. Betalights are illegal in the US but they do sometimes show up on the forsale board over there anyway. For a PSK you're better off with an underdriven keychain coin cell LED light (i.e. use a CR2032 battery with a white led, instead of the usual two CR2016's). It will still: put out much more light than the Betalight with a more neutral color cast which is better for reading maps; have enough runtime for pretty much any situation; cost a lot less; take less space; and not have any legality problems. The shelf life of the lithium coin cell is about the same as the half life of the tritium in the betalight.

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