What was your first White LED Flashlight?

But the beam would just project 109 dots/areas of light... if configured for throw. Probably wouldn't work any good. Each led is an emitter with a matched aspheric anyway, focused in or out depending on the beam each led was designed to give.

My first -WHITE- LED flashlight was the Brinkmann "Long Life" 2AA. http://www.brinkmann.net/products/flashlights_and_spotlights/flashlights/details.aspx?item=809-1050-0 Wow, kind of hard to believe it's still selling for 20 bucks! I loved this light so long ago, I remember putting it up against a random 2AA incan in a runtime faceoff and always being impressed. The reason I highlighted "WHITE" LED flashlight is because I've heard numerous stories of Air Force pilots shoving an infrared LED into a resistored Minimag for use as a cockpit light, WAAYYY long ago.

I have always wanted a UV showerhead, a big floody wall of glow light.

Hi there Kramer...If that's true, you'll like my largest UV shower-head light. It's 128 LED's @385nm flood beam. It's powered by 4 "D" batteries and 15" long with a 3-1/2" diameter bezel. It also features a side-clickie. I acquired it about 4 years ago with the other smaller black one. There primary use and the smaller 3 "AA" powered LED light @395nm is to find the occasional cat pee/spray from our male cats in the house. Works great.

The silver light in the photo is for scale purposes to show how large the UV light is and obviously from my other post. But did turn out to also be 128 LED and is 11-1/2" long with a 3-1/4" diameter bezel.

Six years ago I joined CPF and bought about $600 in flashlights.

Later, Sasha made it her pleasure to insult and threaten me for no good reason and so I left that place forever. Seriously, Sasha/Greta was insulting a guy for nothing at all, so I posted that what he said did not seem so bad.......so that bitch lit into me. I am a combat vet. I did not "fight for the right" for fat girls to call me names and make threats.

I used the flashlights I got then for 6 years before I came into BLF and started upgrading again.

During that period I got several lights that I have used for the last 6 years.

Eternalight came first. It was "used". An emergency organization traded in the unused lights from their packs and got new ones. The owner of Eternalight sold me one for $20 cash and delivered. I still use it as a tent light.

Streamlight TL-2 LED amd TL-3 LED. Luxeon 3W and 5W. Still work fine, dull as dishwater.

I bought the first 2 Fenix 1 AA lights, about 16 lumens and $40 each. Still work fine, still dim.

For 6 years, the light that I actually used everyday was a Streamlight TL-3 incan. 215 lumen, still works, still on the first bulb.

I also got a pair of Surefire incans. Got trashed after burning out so many P60 style bulbs that Surefire charged a fortune for.

Hi Steve...sorry that happened to you and thank you for your service to our country. You are sure welcome here!

Richie, thank you for your comment.

I didn't mean with the existing array, I meant to gut the host and attempt to mod it to take a single higher-power emitter. Although, 109 aspherically-focused emitters would be a cool effect... Tongue Out

Holy cat-pee-glow batman!!!

That will scorch some retinas for sure. Thats some cool gear, thanks for sharing. A 4AA UV showerhead would be perfect for me. Where did you get those beasts?

thanks!!

LOL...hey Kramer. I only use them with proper safely glasses as you should. It just so happens the Ebay seller I purchased them from years ago is still in business and still sells them. Unfortunately the price for them is still up in the sky and is still the exact same as what I payed. Here is the link below to a current auction for the big guy, the smaller UV 51 LED is somewhere in his other auctions.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/200380052476?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649

my first LED was a bike rear light with 5 red-glowing LED's powered by 2xAAA in series:

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That was almost 10 years ago! Such lights are still being sold in shops lol.

The light still works and hasnt cracked yet despite many drops. I was very impressed by its brightness. More than sufficient in a traffic situation at night. Back then I think i paid 4.99€ for the complete set (rear light + front light) at a local discounter (PLUS/NETTO), price is higher now..

I can make the LED's (with no batteries connected) flash with my DMM. Funny stuff.

I don’t remember what my first approx 0-1 lumen led light was, but its gratefully forgotten.

Rayovac Roughneck Xtreme Flashlight (focusing)

Then i had a few bike lights, that were sub 50 lumens
Can’t find a a pic for the Mountain Equipment Co-Op 1W light

still have this one, but its dead

Then I got a dorcy 41-4416, which was my flagship light till a few weeks ago, not even close to the 200 lumen claim, but very bright compared to what most people have





Now I have a Cyclone C88 running off NiMH batteries, with plans to buy lithium batteries, and a zoom xm-l light someday.

Not counting the home made ones like a solitaire AAA powered by a 12v car remote battery and a resistor, this was my first “real” led light I EDC’ed

ARC AAA I can’t believe they still have a website, and the price hasn’t changed much

I look at it now and ask myself “Why the hell did I buy that?” :~ My Underwater kinetics 2AAA Xenon was a much better lighting tool but, Guess this was the “in” light back in 2002-2003 over in CPF, Didn’t had it for much time since it was very unreliable, sometimes it didn’t light up for no reason at all, This light was the first to really piss me off, So it ended its days as a sacrifice to the lumen gods using a very heavy sledgehammer, VERY satisfying!!! I must say J)

Now I have a E1320 Ultrafire 2100 XML that is my current EDC light at the moment, and I am very pleased with it.

Fenix L2D Premium Q5. Still have it and use it and it still looks like new. At the time I couldn't believe I was spending $50 on a light, but when I got it, I was surely impressed.

Inova microlight. Nice white LED but the quality was horrible, it lasted about 3 months on my key chain before it literally fell apart.

Ive been obsessed with torches since i was 7 or 8. My first white led torch that i ever got was whwnthey first came out. I bought a rechargeable energizer 5mm torc with a decent reflector and head diameter.

The First Flashlight I Bought was in 2003

it had a Reflector but it was Zoomable , the First flashlight mod I did was when I Taped a third D cell to it and it became very bright :smiley:
Great Memories.

Led Lenser L7:

One day I tightened the body too much and the plastic cracked during temperature/pressure changes in a plane.

Hey, I have one of those too.
Made from stainless steel, HEAVY and almost indestructible.
Works well as a defense weapon, but doesn’t produce much light.

My first crazy bright light was a Ultrafire C2