Your Oldest LED Flashlight?

[GarageBoy]

Surefire L2 Digital Luminox, or similar name. Not sure if ever seen another reference to it. The L2X is mentioned much more.

It is OK, nothing special, keep it in the car for emergencies.

It was amazing when it came out - cracked the 100 lumen barrier and was regulated on high for an HR and low for like 15

 

[Fireclaw18]

My oldest LED flashlight is a little cylindrical keychain light. I forget who made it.

The light is a small black plastic cylinder with a titanium metal sleeve around it. The steel keychain mount comes out the back of the cylinder. Twisting the keychain mount turns the light on and off.

It runs on 3 button cells. The emitter is a single 10mm red LED. The beam pattern is a dim red donut with a dim red box inside.

This light was purchased at either Brookstone or Sharper Image. It's about 30 years old and predates all of the white LED flashlights.

I still have it and it still works.

 

[archimedes]

My oldest LED flashlight is a little cylindrical keychain light. I forget who made it....

Tekna ?

http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb...-Lumens-race&p=5116925&viewfull=1#post5116925

 

[Fireclaw18]

Tekna ?

http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb...-Lumens-race&p=5116925&viewfull=1#post5116925

That's the one! I still have it and it still works. :twothumbs

 

[Buck91]

The oldest LED light I have is my green LRI Photon Mircolight II. Modded to a nichia GS years back. Doesn't work very well anymore but still hangs out on a spare set of keys. Second would probably be a certain mini maglite with the MJLED drop in.

 

[Stu]

A cheap Dorcy AAA (1st gen) is my oldest.. still used daily at work. The forward momentary tailswitch is handy. Must be about 14 years since purchased.

 

[Dicaeopolis]

I always used a Surefire 6P incandescent at work because it was pocketable and I upgraded it with a Malkoff module, which I still have in it.I assume this was shortly after Malkoff first started selling them, I can't remember the year. My first full flashlight though would have been the MD2 I bought after liking the drop in so much.

 

[aginthelaw]

how do you keep track of these things? i have a photons int'l cr2 ion, a brass peak, ra twisty, novatac edc and fenix lod. don't know which one's first, but i'm the original owner from early 2000.

Forgot my rex 2.0

 

[this_is_nascar]

Don't have pics handy, but my oldest uses the drop-in sandwiches from DAT2ZIP. I still have several.

 

[Climb14er]

Just posted in the other oldest thread... Surefire L4 Lumamax. The Wall Of Light... flashlight.

 

[Paul6ppca]

I think my oldest is Luxogen LR5 lux3. 2005 ish. One mode twisty.

 

[SCEMan]

This was my first around I guestimate about 2001. It's a 2-level rear clicky with an ugly purplish beam but it does have nice styling. Uses 2x CR123 batts.

 

[Paul6ppca]

This was my first around I guestimate about 2001. It's a 2-level rear clicky with an ugly purplish beam but it does have nice styling. Uses 2x CR123 batts.

I believe that's a Nuwaii !
I have a Nuwaii I use daily ,single cr123.
Cool light. East to upgrade. New driver and led it will perform as good as anything today !

 

[SCEMan]

I believe that's a Nuwaii !
I have a Nuwaii I use daily ,single cr123.
Cool light. East to upgrade. New driver and led it will perform as good as anything today !

Bingo! It is a Nuwaii. I'll have to think about upgrading it.

 

[shawn a.]

My oldest led light is an EternaLight, but I cannot seem to figure out how to post a photo of it.
It's a flat rectangle with 4 leds and uses 3 AA batteries.

 

[this_is_nascar]

One of my oldest uses a sandwich from DAT2ZIP. If gets used everyday and is still the nicest beam I've ever seen in an LED flashlight.

 

[Nichia!]

Surefire Lumamax LX2

 

[Ccargo]

Well mine is a K2 stunner wife got it for me for christmas...yes
2004 got it...swapped out the pwercells recommended by wayne...those were amazing...but cant last forever...by todays stds its not that bright but it is my bad boy
this is my first post of anything...hope to have some fun and hope to solve some issues that have haunted me for awhile on leds

thanks for the opp to. Post
clutch

 

[ZMZ67]

Welcome! You should be able to find some answers here.

 

[ZMZ67]

My oldest led light is an EternaLight, but I cannot seem to figure out how to post a photo of it.
It's a flat rectangle with 4 leds and uses 3 AA batteries.

Haven't seen the EternaLight mentioned for a long time! The EternaLight was a big deal early on before high power LEDs took over. Always meant to get one but never pulled the trigger. An EternaLight with Yuji warm LEDs would be appealing to me even now.