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Originally Posted by cosmicfish
This is some cool work, but the indicated shelf lives would make them risky even if the Project deployed on schedule unless the shelf like can somehow be extended. 5 years is just not enough. Does anyone know the cause of degradation?
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I believe it is because the current cartridges are nitrogen filled, which I'm guessing slowly bleeds out over time? Now to get around the BATF regulations during the 70's and 80's that Tasers where firearms because they used gunpowder to initiate the discharge of the darts, when the Air Taser came out, it used compressed air in the cartridge. I'm guessing they switched out to nitrogen when the M18 came out in 2009, but I'm not completely sure on this at the moment, more likely it was switched out during the life of the Air Taser.
I probably should have said 5 years of shelf life after leaving an MP storage environment. I'll update this information in the document and release an update.