No response from DCH via email. So I haven’t heard from him in a long while. Hopefully he’s good.
Okay, DCH is alive. Lol. He emailed me back, he’s just busy with real life and drowning in good deals. He wanted me to assure y’all that he is not doing time for penny deals lol!
Thanks for the update…glad to hear that he is alive and doing well.
Whew! Good news! Thanks for posting!
-Garry
Now that is REAL good news.
Think of him every time this thread gets updated.
Miss the pics of the cheap deals he finds and his humor.
Thanks for the update!
I miss him as well
I think I saw him in an orange apron checking prices in all the clearance bins in my local HD
He was wearing a Rolex 
So awesome to hear. Thanks for the report ChadB!
500 Lumens LED Dual-Panel Utility Light for 7.88 + tax. Four AA energizer alkaline batteries are included.
Looks interesting so I am going to try it out.
Looks very interesting, especially for that price. Too bad my current employer is located in a city with a Lowe’s, but no Home Depot.
-Garry
That’s pretty cool. Unfortunately, I already have more worklights than I know what to do with. Gotta restrain myself… 
So yeah, I ended up getting one. My self-restraint is very weak.
This is actually a pretty nice light. Somewhat large, but the magnets are strong enough to hang onto the fridge. The swiveling panels are useful. You can have both panels up, or only one panel up, so in effect you have 4 different light output levels available. Construction feels adequate for the price (not great), but sturdy enough.
With both panels up, parasitic drain is 0.17mA on alkalines and 0.12mA on NiMH. However, if you fold the panels, parasitic drain drops to 0.
On high, with alkalines, voltage sag is massive and drops like flies. If the starting light output truly is 500 lumen, it surely won’t last long at that level - it’ll start dropping right away, but I haven’t done a light output runtime test to see how bad it is.
Here are some rough initial current numbers I got, both panels up:
| Alkaline | NiMH | |
| High | 2A at 4V | 2.3A at 4.35V |
| Low | 0.75A at 5V | 0.85A at 4.9V |
All in all, I like it, but something tells me that if you need it as a work light, you’d better work fast.
Home depots in the North East are clearing out all Maglites and Rayovac Indestructibles - currently about 25% off in the clearance sections.
Hilarious!
Weird about the parasitic drain going to zero when the panel is folded. Open in the ribbon or connecting wires or by design?
My guess is it’s by design since it acts as an on/off switch for each panel. When the light is on (main power switch on), folding the panel will turn that panel off. This must be a physical switch that acts similarly to unscrewing the tail cap on a flashlight, which is why you see parasitic drain disappear.
This is on high, both panels on. Down to about 20% of initial output after the first 5 minutes. Fairly steady after that.
EDIT1: Inserted an updated graph to include both Alkaline and NiMH. As you can see, output/run time curves are nearly identical for both, even though you get slightly higher overall light output on NiMH, but not by much.
At the 5 hour mark, output on Alkaline was down to around 10% of initial output, so that’s about what you’d expect based on the ANSI rating. The alkaline cells were at 1.08V right after I took them out, but bounced back up to 1.2V after resting for a while, so they could have still probably ran a few more hours at this low level.
EDIT 2: On NiMH, after the first 3.5 hours or so, the light output was still at around 20, but then started dropping fairly quickly, down to around 3 of initial output at 4h 20min, at which point I stopped the test as I did not want to over discharge the cells too far. They were at 0.95V +/- 0.05V. Since the NiMH cells produced a bit more output during the first 3-4 hours, they spent themselves quicker than alkalines. I noticed something similar with another 4xAA work like I tested before.
If you do decide to use NiMH cells in this light, make sure to keep an eye on it as it will most likely drain them to nothing if you don’t stop it.
Is it running on anduril?
Yeah, two andurils and a narsil with a side of biscotti.
Out Of Stock at my local HD but 20 In Store 50 miles away………
I wonder how it fairs on NiMh’s (hint hint). Also - do you think it’s possible to run it from an 18650 (or multiples in parallel).
-Garry