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I bought a 10-pack of these a few years ago for emergency use and they were fantastic, so when they ran out I immediately ordered more. The second pack was terrible; I tried three different sticks and none of them gave out enough light to be useful. I had one stick left over from my first order so I lit it to compare with one of the new ones, see the attached pictures. Both of these sticks were cracked within minutes of each other, and the pictures were taken about 15 minutes after opening the packages. I'm going to give Cyalume the benefit of the doubt and assume I got a bad lot, but this is still unacceptable for an emergency product. I'm glad I found this out before I had to rely on one of these.