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Illuminated reticles or illuminated rubbish
I've had it up to the eyeballs with those little red-light illuminated that screw into the reticule on your guidescope. They just don't work. They are a simple enough piece of circuitry, and a simple enough piece of engineering - so why in the name of all the saints can't someone make one that works? I suppose they all come from the same 'factory' somewhere in deepest darkest whoop-whoop which may explain why they seem to be uniformly rubbish. I'm on about the fourth in the past 6 months. The most recent came with a reasonably expensive American Scientific finder scope and my belief that the brand was some sort of assurance of quality. Nope. After what would be less that 6 hours installed on a scope, the knob just spins around now and doesn't even engage a switch. And this has been the fate of the previous 3.
Does anyone know of a red-light illuminator for a guidescope reticule that actually works reliably?
Peter
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