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Probably not. But how long should you expect it to last?That totally depends on how you are using it. __________First off, your flash probably doesn’t have an odometer. I get my SB-800s made special—they put the odometer on the inside hinge part where I don’t have to see it unless I want to.And it might surprise you to know that 5,000 pops is an expected life span for some flash tubes. Disappointed? I was, too. And it gets worse: some tubes are rated as low as 1,000 pops.I was brought into a conversation in which a flash manufacturer was trying to choose between a 5k tube and a 1k tube. My answer: spend the money on the better tube because, duh. Five thousand is better than one thousand.But still, 5k pops sounded awfully … short-lived, amirite?Turns out it comes down to how they test the tubes. For instance, you can expect a car to last several hundred thousand miles. But not if you drive it like a bat out of hell all the time. In that case you’ll send it to a very early grave.Same with flashes. And while there is a lot of variability …
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