luxlunatic
Flashlight Enthusiast
Vintage light for a vintage thread!
This old keychain light has been mentioned but I thought I would mention it again with some pics.
The Tekna Nighteye was my first LED light that I bought from Brookstone in 1990. I believe I went through 3 of these, losing 2, and this is my last surviving specimen that still operates.
It proudly sports a 10mm red LED that puts out a whooping 2-ish lumens (which was not so bad at the time for an LED) and an atrocious beam (the pics below are being very generous to the beam output and quality), twisty operation and a titanium battery tube that holds 2x LR44 batteries.
Way back, I thought about trying to pull the LED and sanding the dome of it to lose the "ringy" beam and add to the flood but did not get around to it.
I loved this light, enough so to replace it twice! I thought it was 007 level tech at the time!
It wasn't another 12 years or so that I finally procured a proper LED light (sporting actual white light!) in the form of a Arc, LSH-P, and down the custom rabbit hole I went...
This old keychain light has been mentioned but I thought I would mention it again with some pics.
The Tekna Nighteye was my first LED light that I bought from Brookstone in 1990. I believe I went through 3 of these, losing 2, and this is my last surviving specimen that still operates.
It proudly sports a 10mm red LED that puts out a whooping 2-ish lumens (which was not so bad at the time for an LED) and an atrocious beam (the pics below are being very generous to the beam output and quality), twisty operation and a titanium battery tube that holds 2x LR44 batteries.
Way back, I thought about trying to pull the LED and sanding the dome of it to lose the "ringy" beam and add to the flood but did not get around to it.
I loved this light, enough so to replace it twice! I thought it was 007 level tech at the time!
It wasn't another 12 years or so that I finally procured a proper LED light (sporting actual white light!) in the form of a Arc, LSH-P, and down the custom rabbit hole I went...