Job site and bench top lights

[treesner]

Curious what you guys are using for portable lights on the job site and also for additional bench lighting in your shop.

Noticed the other day that the work lights are offered in LED like this snap on one for $50

Also this Husky swivel light for $100 looks pretty cool, tripod is probably junk though.

On my bench top I really like the flexible gooseneck desktop light for illuminating small things. Similar to Similar to this one

As the sun begins to set sooner i'm looking to get my lighting more dialed (inside and outside bench). Would love to know what you're using
-chris

 

[Tyler Ernsberger]

We have two of the husky leds and they are awesome.  We use them for job site lighting.  They do not gernerate heat and provide a lot of light.  The best part is that they are very durable.  The worst thing with halogen is heat and the bulds breaking. 

 

[WarnerConstCo.]

All my task lighting in my shop, is of the vintage variety. Several machinery lamps, several of the old factory light shades, several of the articulating arm variety for my benches.

 

[sae]

I'm pretty deep into Metabo's battery system, so it was natural I got their lights.

There's a few models, I have their 1800 lumen worklight (two of 'em actually) and a 420 lumen more benchtop sized light. They're pretty affordable, $150 for the worklight, $79 for the benchtop one. Battery life is 7 hours and 12 hours respectively.

The output is a really nice color temperature on both lights, apparently Porsche uses the larger of the lights in the factory for final paint inspection.  [thumbs up]





I also got this little Bosch, it's super handy, and really affordable at $50. I might get a few more, but I have a lighting addiction.

 

[treesner]

[member=38144]sae[/member]  I really like the looks of both of those Metabos, I wish Milwaukee's 12'v had the bench top equivalent, I could see me using that quite a bit on my outdoor workbench

 

[treesner]

Picked up one of the husky LED lights and it's much smaller and much brighter than expected.

Very nice however it does throw quite a bit of shadows so I will need a second light on the other side of me to act as a fill light

I dislike the design of the folding out smaller lights though, they fold to the backside of the light leaving both lights exposed. I would have made them fold into themselves so for transporting you don't have to worry about breaking the glass.

 

[rst]

I use Milwaukee's 18V led floodlight, at 1200 lu, it's like turning on the sun.  I made an aluminum base plate so I could screw it to a builders tripod.  Getting ready to buy another.

 

[treesner]

I use Milwaukee's 18V led floodlight, at 1200 lu, it's like turning on the sun.  I made an aluminum base plate so I could screw it to a builders tripod.  Getting ready to buy another.

nice, any photos? thinking about making a plate to pull on and off the tripod easier.

Also do any of these lights have an option for dimming?