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Any chance Milwaukee and/or Makita will put Tri-beam leds on their impacts?
It will be awhile if they do it the M18 impacts are brand new. I know for a company that’s supposed to be innovative the LED light location is in the worst spot. The best spot is either the tri beam or on the base of the tool not by the trigger.
Yeah. Half the light gets blocked by the transmission housing.
The light at the front by the bit would be great, as a light down by the battery wouldn’t work in many applications where I’m in a tight spot
tbh if they wanted to make illuminate the whole thing they’d just make the chuck clear plastic and put the leds at the base of the chuck, but they’d run into people whining about a plastic chuck lol
Screw that. I want an LED in the bit.
KnarlyCarl wrote:
7 hours ago, KnarlyCarl said:The light at the front by the bit would be great, as a light down by the battery wouldn’t work in many applications where I’m in a tight spot
Agreed, the placement right now is a LOT better than the battery located LEDs for me.
It’s kind of funny because Ryobi (which is owned by TTI, the same company that owns Milwaukee tools) have had tri-beam LEDs on their impact drivers and wrenches for a long time now.
Ridgid runs tri beams too
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I don’t see what the big deal is…mainly because my light is obscured by a chuck 😛
There’s no reason why new impacts now can’t have led’s located in a few locations like a bright led at the base shinning up like a little flood light a bit like the new dewalt compact drill with the 60 lumen light and also have three led’s at the top of the tool too and a switch to choose which led’s you have on ?
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Craigh9916 wrote:
3 hours ago, Craigh9916 said:There’s no reason why new impacts now can’t have led’s located in a few locations like a bright led at the base shinning up like a little flood light a bit like the new dewalt compact drill with the 60 lumen light and also have three led’s at the top of the tool too and a switch to choose which led’s you have on ?
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I like this idea!!!
Technically Milwaukee could let you do all sorts of cool things one one key and led lights
JimboS1ice wrote:
15 hours ago, JimboS1ice said:Ridgid runs tri beams too
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the tri beam on the hammerdrill is cool