What flashlight you have in hand before you get into CPF?

[lilaussie18]

Always have to have the Surefire E2E executive elite with LED conversion or typically my surefire TLR 1 HL when im out and about. Cant beat the clarity and reach the two lights have

 

[Nyctophiliac]

I can genuinely say that I was addicted to torches way before I found CPF.

I had already been buying from Pocketlights.com (Sadly, now gone) and had quite a collection including Surefire , CMG/Gerber, Maglite, LED LENSER, and UK Divelights. I may have even found Lighthound.com! I think it was the proprietor of Pocketlights who linked me to this place after I bought my ARC +4 - so I hold him solely responsible for the multitude of purchases since! (D. Kochan???)

 

[eh4]

Modernflame, lol.
It Was reasonable, when there weren't better options!
I used to compare it to if I were paying a Djinn or other supernatural creature an hourly rate for rental of supernatural abilities... instant light in the darkness 12$ an hour, instant communication over ling distances, 9$ an hour or .15 per message, lol.

 

[mikeymoto]

I had a couple Maglights before I found CPF. I actually came here looking for laser pointers way back then, and only slowly was drawn in by the flashlights that looked like light sabers!

 

[MikeSalt]

What a brilliantly interesting thread, capturing that moment from being unenlightened to enlightenment. For me, it was a Cyba-lite Luxeon I 3x C-cell light. I was looking for something smaller, and came across CPF, which led me to an LED Lenser (Coast) David 15.F From then on, it as a slippery trail to Fenix, Lummi, Surefire, Zebralight, McGizmo and now George Kemenes.

 

[oldrifleman]

Before I found this sight I had a half dozen Surefires, some small maglights and a Fenix. I also had more money in the bank. I have been a light fanatic for years, just my definition of what a good light is has changed.

 

[etc]

I didn't know what a surefire was in 2004.

I had Streamlight Luxeon Jr., the 2xAA light. Not even remotely sure how many lumens it had. maybe 100? Or 60? First gen 1W.

I do remember it ran much brighter on Lithiums.

Here is my review from 12 years ago:

http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb...-Mini-MagLite-3W-vs-StreamLight-Jr-Lux-review

 

[this_is_nascar]

I had an old Pelican coin cell clicky keychain light that started my addiction.

 

[flashfan]

Years before CPF, my best lights were from Underwater Kinetics and the Streamlight Scorpion. Then about one year before CPF I discovered the Bright Guy website, and the slippery slope into SureFire et al began.

 

[BushcrafterAU]

I have a Varta Indestructible 1W, and a Coleman CHT7.
-BushcrafterAU

 

[Blackout89]

-Ultratac K18 2017 (keychain light)
-Fenix UC35 v1.0 (EDC) - Just ordered the UC35 v2.0 last night
-2AA Mini Maglite LED conversion
-Anker LC40

 

[Unicorn]

Streamlight Stinger (original)
Surefire 9P
Surefire 9N
AA Mini Maglite
3 C cell Streamlight (this thing was probably 20 or more years old when I got it).
A couple of those 9 volt PAL lights.
Some single and double AA LED lights that were about as bright as a lit match. Just enough to dig through a backpack in the dark with eyes that were adjusted to the night.
A 10,000 candlepower Pelican 2 C cell light. I don't remember the model though.
Maybe a Maglite rechargeable, not sure if that was before or after I found David's awesome site.

 

[kj2]

Maglite 2D, 3D and 5D. First light after I joined CPF, was a Fenix TK11 R2.

 

[kalel332]

I have always had a fascination with flashlight since I was cub scout but right before I got here I had a few mini mags, a Rayovac 2 Innovas 1 that used 2 cr123 and 1 that used 2 aa, 2 Brinkmann Maxfire, 1 used 2 cr123 and the other was rechargeable and las but not least an Eagletac p20A2 which was the one that brought me here. of all them the Rayovac died, everything else I still keep with a few ([emoji3]) dozen more.