this is the dewalt dcl-079 which is an 18 volt work light this is actually brighter than a 500
watt halogen mains powered light one of these is very useful if you're working on a property
where there is no electricity such as this new build where i'm actually working right now i
do apologize this is the only room where i could actually get any decent sound quality and as you
can see it is actually full of loft insulation at the minute but i've been working on this for quite
a few weeks and i've been using this light quite a lot obviously because there is no electricity as
soon as it goes dark you have to stop working but with this you can actually continue working this
is an absolutely great piece of kit you may think it looks a bit like a massive torch which it does
it weighs in at about 7.4 kilograms it's a meter high but you can actually extend it up to 2.2
meters once you've all put the bass on this it is actually a very very solid tripod and the
battery actually goes at the bottom there so that makes it more stable
to open it up you simply press that button slide that down that gives you the tripod base
you can then extend both of the poles up to 2.2 meters
this does have three light settings the first one is
3000 lumens the next one is 1800 lumens and then finally you have 1000 lumens
i've been using a 5 amp hour battery and on the brightest setting which is 3000 lumens i can get
approximately two and a half hours of use before it goes flat if you knock this down to 1800 lumens
a 5 amp hour battery will last approximately five hours and if you knock it down again to
1000 lumens the battery will last approximately eight hours this light is incredibly useful if
you're working in a property where there is no mains electric i've actually used this to install
multi-panels in three bathrooms and i've also fit the majority of the kitchen using this light
obviously during daytime hours you can work perfectly well but during winter months once
it starts going dark at approximately 3 p.m you are gonna need some kind of light
these are not cheap and i think i paid 215 pounds for this from amazon but it has been absolutely
superb the quality of the light that comes off it is absolutely fantastic and it is actually
30 brighter than a 500 watt halogen light just a word of warning when you are using it
put it on the 3000 lumen setting do not look at the light because it is incredibly bright
once the battery is running down it will flash to indicate that the battery is nearly flat
so you can rotate the head and you can point that in any direction i think it rotates
approximately 240 degrees it would be better if you could tilt it a little bit further down
but it's quite adequate as it is and it does throw out a very good light
to raise the light up or down you simply pull out that lever you can then adjust that to whatever
height you want to switch the lights on you simply press the button there and that is also the button
to dim it which is a bit annoying because if you're working in a dark room and you're
trying to save the battery you actually have to press it three times to get it to switch off
so you press it once 3000 lumens again 1800 again a thousand again and it goes off
and the battery's simply located in the base
that just slides in and out of there very easily
so if you're working in a loft or in a property where there is
no electric this would be absolutely invaluable like i said it is not cheap at about 215 pounds
but it is an absolutely superb piece of kit so if we take this small bathroom for example
the lighting in here is terrible there is no natural light
and as you can see the lights have not actually been installed in the ceiling yet
but if you switch the dewalt work light on you get an absolutely fantastic light
that enables you to work all day long or until the battery goes flat
another advantage is that there is no power lead to trip over
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