- What is the first LED light you ever bought ?
Mine was one of those 9 LED generic lights, in Camo finish, almost 10 years ago when they first appeared in outdoors equipment & camping stores. ( it cost close to $ 8.00 dollars back then, and had nine horrid eye-searing blueish radiation-tinted 5mm LEDs.
I still have it and it still works. 
like this one below:
Lightwave 2000
i haven not seen one of those in a long time.
The first one I bought was a Rook. But my sister had given me a couple of them like the 9x that you posted and I was also gifted a little handcrack dynamo one before that.
Remember this? Another oldie
Also had one of this
Ring Micro, which replaced an incandescent Maglite Solitaire:
Fenix LD20
Ahhh, Alex, you’ve been in this for a long time too! Remember the opalec new beam? http://www.flashlightreviews.com/reviews/opalec_newbeam.htm
3AA Maglite. Discontinued now. :~
My first incandescent light 30+ years ago (only pic not for light)
2 x D size batteries
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My first LED light 30+ years ago (I found this light last two year not for my first light)
1 LED , 2 x AA , about $0.7 on that time.
Terralux lightstar 220
I loved that light to death, and was heartbroken when I lost it. :_(
It seems like “the problem” is some of you started at the high end :)!
I don’t know if this counts, but my first one that got me started with one of the “free” AAA lights that Coast used to have (I think still have) that you could order when I bought one of their headlights at Home Depot (maybe the headlight was actually “the first”).
I still carry that one on my keychain, even though it’s all beat up and lost the lens.
If that “free” doesn’t count, then it’d be one of the SK68 clones (even though I didn’t know it was an SK68 clone) that I bought via Amazon.
ITP SA2 . My first high powered LED flashlight .
Shown here with a Mora .
It was one of those Photon lights. A discontinued model with two buttons and blue led (there where no white LED’s at the time). Those Photon lights have great warranty service btw.
First white LED light might have been one of those 9-led 3xAAA lights. And the first Cree light was Ultrafire C3 from DX. 
My brither had one of those 3-AA models. not sure if he still has it.
Fenix LD10 R2 - still a top notch flashlight!
My first LED light was a Xeno E03 v3 XM-L NW. Bought it in 2011.
Sure I remember! I even made one of those 3 or 5 mm leds with a 12v resistored car alarm battery in a Mag Solitaire mod, way back!
I just remember the superthrower of the really old days, the mighty Turtlelight! (Had to really dig google just to find a pic)
