Check it out! Rated at 2,500 lumens, with articulating panels. These are ‘ship to store’, so I doubt I’ll be able to find a unit in a B/M store. A little pricey, but my standby Halogen (also on a tripod) eats 500 watts, versus the 24 this one supposedly uses.
I don’t expect this to match the halogen, of course, but it looks interesting. Half a watt per LED? Does that sound right? (I mean, the arithmetic works, but does that sound like reasonably well driven LED’s?)
Check out the size of the housing, plus the fact that there’s no cord in the photo. Does that mean it’s entirely battery powered? That might be a plus or a minus, depending on the user.
Is this an Ace Hardware incarnation of some other manufacturer’s product that might be better-known?
Disparaging comments / slurs / epithets?
UPDATE: Specs list SJT 18/3 5 ft. cord, so it’s obviously 110v.
Whoa! I went to post about this very light and stumbled on this thread. I actually saw this one in my local Ace. They had it plugged in so I flipped it on to check it out. The store was well lit and it was daytime so it was hard to judge output. I find it hard to believe that it's brighter than a 500w halogen though (as it is advertised to be). I would describe the output as "pure white", a cool white without purple or blueish tint. I really liked it, although I think the $79.99 price tag is a bit too high. I would love to see a "beamshot" of it in the dark.
So a quick check online shows a 500 watt halogen floodlight puts out approx. 10,000 lumens - this seem correct? Is there a high-powered LED equivalent that puts out as much light? Like these 50w LED flood lights? (That link says it has the lumen output of a 500 watt halogen.)
While you may technically get 20 lm/watt, they aren’t very effective lumens since a lot of light is lost out the back of the bulb, in reflectors, etc. I’ve found that a more reasonable number for comparing incandecents to LEDs is 10 lumens per watt.
