Different location for the LED light in cordless drills…

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tooljoeMember since Jun 2011

That location would eliminate the shadow.

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kjonesMember since Oct 2010

tooljoe wrote:

That location would eliminate the shadow.

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Try one of the drills with the light located there.  They simply do not work well.

kanxrusMember since Jan 2009

Case in point.

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tooljoeMember since Jun 2011
Try one of the drills with the light located there.  They simply do not work well.

I was not aware there are some out there… the light over the trigger does not work well for me either… i’m thinking of hacking mine 🙂

tooljoeMember since Jun 2011
Case in point.

How hard would it be for the dewalt engineers/designers to come up with something like this…

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I used cheap lights (non-LED) here to see how it would look. with todays tecjnology, there are very tiny LED light (smaller than the ones on the pic) that emit a lot of light. also, the drill collar only would get a little fat to house the LEDs.

kanxrusMember since Jan 2009

Dewalt did a similar thing to the new 20v max impact driver. There are to many moving parts on a drill/driver to put 3 lights up front. I doubt you will ever see it on a drill driver.

tooljoeMember since Jun 2011
Dewalt did a similar thing to the new 20v max impact driver.

I was not aware of that, though I own the 12v max impact driver and love the 3 LED lights.

There are to many moving parts on a drill/driver to put 3 lights up front. I doubt you will ever see it on a drill driver.

they are not very good engineers/designers then 🙂 because I can think of two designs that could work.

kanxrusMember since Jan 2009

Well I would personally enjoy a drill that had 3 lights. I see companies viewing light’s as a secondary feature, and won’t go out of there way to design a drill around lights.

FelipeStalveyMember since Apr 2012

DEWALTDUDE wrote:

Well I would personally enjoy a drill that had 3 lights. I see companies viewing light’s as a secondary feature, and won’t go out of there way to design a drill around lights.

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