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I am looking for a good bright cordless worklight for underhood use. I would like one that is magnetic and obviously bright. So far the ones I have looked at are bright but don’t light up a wide area. I was wondering what you guys used for your lighting needs.
Milwaukee had some very nice M12 & M18 lights that run a super-long time, have great light quality, and some can even charge your cell phone at the same time @ this year’s product event. They are supposed to be getting released next month.
I would personally hold out until then if I were you.
They arent magnetic, but the do have moveable hooks that will along you to hang them under a hood.
Yeah I agree with Daniel that the m18 led stick light would do the trick. It’s identical to the dewalt dcl050 but with and added hook on the handle to aim horizontally downwards
What happened to the day when cars had lights under the hood. I have this cheap advance auto puck light that’s magnetic and plugs into cigarette lighter. Does the trick anyhow.
I use one of these. I got it at Harbor Freight for $3. It’s plenty bright and works for me. I’m sure there are better/brighter LED work light out there too.
LED Work Light with rare earth magnets. Could be brighter.
My brother-in-law gifted me an EZ Red LED Portable Work Light.
These are supper bright for their size. 36 lumens. No magnet though.
wiz I had one of those hey for under 4bucks cant beat it.
not bad at all for that price
I have that EZ light wiz bang and have had it since last summer. The spring assembly loosens up really quick resulting in the light turning on and off. Really bright but I was using it today at work looking under vehicles and the darn thing kept flashing a ton. Was driving me nuts! Super bright, light and the magnet / clip is great but it drives me bonkers.
I don’t know if u guys remember last years holiday season but I bought a little craftsman led light for like 5.99 I think and believe it or not I haven’t changed the batteries and have used it on and off since I’ve had it and it still works great. I will try to take a pic when I get home later tonight
Damn that sucks to hear about the spring assembly. I’ve had mine for 2 weeks. I’ve only used a few times.
I have seen a craftman model similar to the EZ.
I do have the ez red light. It works good so far. I have a streamlight too. I was mainly wanting a light to light up the whole engine bay mainly. The stubby 2 led light that woodstockva reviewed looks like the best option so far.
This is the little light that has surprised so much, it’s gonna be a year this coming Black Friday that I bought it it has a very strong magnet and it puts a good amount of light out sorry guys I don’t the specs on it
Hopefully these are out this year I’m gonna pick up another one
Wow Mike that light is super bright for how small it is. I seen something like that at seats the other day but in camouflage and I didn’t think much of it
that’s a super bright light mike – how much did you pay for it?
That is an awesome little work light, Mike! I would buy a few, if could find them at Sears.
I think I got it for either 5.99 or 6.99 not sure but it wasn’t past that, Javier I also saw the camouflage one 2 it looks pretty cool. im just so surprised that its lasted this long and pretty durable I mean i haven’t dropped from very high but its fallen a few times and its lasted my 3 yr old playing with it 2
Bigmikez wrote:
I think I got it for either 5.99 or 6.99 not sure but it wasn’t past that, Javier I also saw the camouflage one 2 it looks pretty cool. im just so surprised that its lasted this long and pretty durable I mean i haven’t dropped from very high but its fallen a few times and its lasted my 3 yr old playing with it 2
yeah i seen those at near the cash register on this lame display wall they have. It don’t make sense, they have some candys female jewelry, a couple of tools like this one and a ton of empty space all at once. I don’t know what to make of it and you could put the hottest latest greatest tool on that wall and somehow the wall would just kill the buzz
Yea Javier I just bought cus my son had got it and flashed it in my eyes and I thought hey for the price I can’t go wrong and I didn’t man I won’t say that I use it every single day but when I’ve needed it it hasn’t let me down and to tell u the truth I haven’t even checked to c what kind of battery’s it has I might do that tonight lol! Hey talking about sears my buddy at work told me that they had the dewalt 20v grinder for sale 80$ now I don’t know if that’s at all sears cus there so weird with how they run things but I think it’s a good price
that’s a good price for +/- 5.99
I brought my everyday cree headlamp with me home today from the shop and I love this light they bought these at shop for all of us for under 25$ on amazon I charge it on Mondays and don’t need to charge again the whole week these come in great for changeling brakes and changeling radiators/condensers or wherever dark, ur hands free all day. I have some stuff to do in the attic this weekend so I brought them home u guys should check these out there super bright at like 1600 LMs and it has 3 modes high and low light and flashing. We’ve had these light a little over 7-8 months now and all 6 guys at shop have had no prob yet plus there water proof I really recommend these.though the batteries u have to buy seperate that’s the only thing that’s a bummer. Me and my lil man tried to take some pics sorry if they didn’t come out to good guys I took a pic of it on high and low and my son wanted to take a pic 2 lol!
Oh and the light beam is adjustable to make it smaller or bigger
nice mike. I can believe that you like that lamp for crawling under cars 😛
for attics it can be really useful. you got a link for that lamp?
I don’t know to to put links yet MM :/ but I know they got them on amazon though
I can just link links when I use my other browsers – the normal internet browser don’t allow me anything…I cant paste or copy anything in here 😀
there are a bunch of headlamps on amazon…ill check that out later a bit more 😀
Yea checkem out man I love this light!!
Mines a Cheap one from b&q made by Ap active cant remember how many lumens but it’s quite bright..has a clip and Magnet on the rear and another magnet in the base..
Nice that one has a light on top 2! How much did that cost u?
I have a Maglite XL50 LED 3cell AAA for 20 bucks from home depot …normal they run for 35 but I bought it last year when they had them on sale
Bigmikez wrote:
Nice that one has a light on top 2! How much did that cost u?
Around £6
very nice!!
wizbang wrote:
I use one of these. I got it at Harbor Freight for $3. It’s plenty bright and works for me. I’m sure there are better/brighter LED work light out there too.
LED Work Light with rare earth magnets. Could be brighter.
My brother-in-law gifted me an EZ Red LED Portable Work Light.
These are supper bright for their size. 36 lumens. No magnet though.
There are coupons to get this light from HF for free.