KT is hoping to find something adequate in that LW 365 nm wavelength for a cheaper price than the Royal UVBeast.
KT's entire purpose with checking out a few cheapo LW UV lamps is to find something that might be reasonable for a beginning rockhound or pebble pup. It is not so great to tell a beginner that you need to spend, to them, some big bucks to get into the hobby...this is for that person who might think spending $20 on a specimen is very expensive! HA HA
When KT was actively collecting and came across something unusual He never batted an eye at spending $200 for it. Of course later when He began selling his collection that same piece brought in $500 into the Royal Coffers!
......no offense taken KT
, but with my budget for "hobby stuff" I might somewhat fit into the category of feeling like paying $20 for one specimen is a tad pricey for my hobby budget to do real often, so it better be a really spectacular looking "wow" specimen
Hey, I agree the UV Beast, though worth it, is somewhat pricey for a flashlight
I can appreciate and applaud your efforts to research for a more affordable LW 365nm lights that a beginner or someone on a tighter budget for hobby stuff can more easily afford. (like me
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Hey, we ourselves are not poor, but not rich by today's "official" standards either, we might "officially" fall into the upper lower class for our state
yet God has blessed what we do have to work with, our home has been paid off since we moved here about 16 years ago, we have 3 vehicles, one of which is a Prius Prime plug-in hybrid, we don't have to "pinch pennies" but we still enjoy stretching our buying power by shopping sales and clipping coupons (a lot easier with today's electronic coupons
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I said that to say that I also like to research for the best possible deals on hobby stuff, stuff that performs well enough to be worth getting, but still at a good affordable discount. Yes, I did buy the pricey UV Beast myself, as far as my limited budget for "hobby stuff" it was more than "pocket change" to me
but I felt the performance of the UV Beast was worth paying for anyhow
......but I definitely can appreciate that a beginner to the hobby might not want to pay much to just try out a hobby before deciding whether the hobby is for them or not.
Hey, my congrats to you KT for being able to get well over a 100% return on selling a specimen for way more than you bought it for !
(I bet you likely wish you had originally bought more of that specimen
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