Est. 1998 — 27 years of woodworking knowledge
New LED Work lights
JL
Bought a LED work light at Lowes today.
9000 lumens (or so it says), 92 W power consumption.
Nice sturdy stand. The twin lights come on a holder which detaches from the tripod. The holder can then sit on the floor.
While it gets a little warm - it isn't going to fry you like the halogen lights do. In terms of brightness - it is considerably bright.
Re: New LED Work lights
Tom Norton
I have a halogen double on astand and they are shot. I really don't want to buy new bulbs. Wondering if I could retrofit some LED lights to the stand?
Re: New LED Work lights *LINK*
Jason Roehl in Lafayette, IN
There are LEDs available that work in place of the halogen sticks. See link below for an example.
Re: New LED Work lights
JL
Of the one I purchased, I doubt it. They did have smaller units that are the sort that sit on the ground. You would have to cobble together some sort of way to attach it to your existing stand.
Re: New LED Work lights
David Weaver
Can't comment on the connection, but unless your stand is something commercial, you may find a new combination LED and stand for less than the cost of trying to find something that fits your old stand.
Big variation (seems to be improving, though) in one LED fixture that says it's a number of lumens vs another. Same with the bulbs. I think the reason isn't design, but rather fraud on some of the third-world produced stuff (just like the days when computer speakers went from 15 watts to 480 watts on the outside of the box, but didn't sound much different).
The good LED products are, in my opinion (because of the lack of follow-up shopping, or for the tubes, the lack of the need to deal with ballasts or find a waste collection event to get rid of old tubes), the best thing I've had in my shop.
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John K Jordan
I bought some LED worklights that sit on the floor or other surface. Not expensive and very bright. I can imagine adapting them to one of old halogen stands with little effort but haven't done it.
JKJ
Re: New LED Work lights
Tom Norton
So are the LED light cooler than the halogen ones?
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Jason Roehl in Lafayette, IN
Very much so. LEDs do put off some heat, and generally have some sort of heat sink or cooling fin setup to deal with it. Some even have small cooling fans built in, but they end up warm, maybe hot to the touch, though still able to be handled. Unlike halogen and incandescent which will instantly sear your skin.
Jason
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Walter Ahlgrim
"So are the LED light cooler than the halogen ones?"
Your question can be understood in more than one way.
1 If you touch the LED fixture it will not burn you the way halogen will.
2 The color of the light a source produces is sometimes described as warm or cold. You can buy LEDs in a variety of colors.
Walta
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Bill Howatt
Definitely cooler especially in the "bulb" part but some regular light bulb shapes have electronic stuff near the socket that gets very hot. A bulb like this will burn your finger tips if you grip it on the hot area after it has been on a while.
Don't assume you can grab every LED light gizmo anywhere without encountering a hot area.
Bill
Re: New LED Work lights
David Weaver
as others have said, yes - much cooler. Some of them may still be overdriven (the LEDs) and produce more heat than expected, but *nothing* like a halogen fixture.
One of the ways to claim better specs, apparently, is to take something like a 75 watt array, drive it with 100 watts and then claim that it's a 100 watt fixture, but it will not produce more light than it would have at 75, at least not appreciably. I'm guessing the excess wattage is turned into heat.
But, again, nothing like you're used to with halogens.