I stopped on my way INTO work today and snagged 3 more of the 800 lumen Husky work lights (all they had) for the same $8.83 price. I’ll probably post some pics and ask for some help modding it in a new thread this weekend.
Quick into from some testing last night:
AC-DC convertor in the back, outputing 27.8 volts.
“Bridgelux” LED on a star mounted behind a stout glass lens
Between lens and star is a virtually flat “reflector” that can’t possibly be doing anything except hiding wires.
I wonder if it would be effective to mount two or more of those lights onto a stand or fixture, then wire them in parallel… switch option to run 2 or 4 lights simultaneously.
Easy to do, if you are comfortable doing AC wiring. I have enough plug in trouble lights, I really want to get these molded into battery power models - ideally using my Cordless tool packs but I might even use some of my laptop pulls with a cheap charging board from mtnelectronics.com screwed into the back area. I left the last set mostly intact, so I have 4 pairs welded together.
These lights finally went to the 3 price. $2.53 Rechargeable Flashlight that plugs into the wall and turns on with a power outage;
Got another of the Husky twin packs. The 3C model is an XP-L and 500 Lumen. the 3 - AAA model is 165 lumen.
This time for a penny
I didn’t notice until I got outside, where did the batteries go?
Just a few miles away from the store that had these for a penny, they were marked down from 11.97 to 6.98. I did scan the price
This store had that same 100W power inverter and 2A USB charging station priced at $27.06. Scanned for $8.83
One of the power invertors on a welcome mat on clearance. I bought 4 of the mats.
Got 2 of these for $4.83. Last 2 in my area. It’s actually fairly decent. It can use 3xAA or 3xD batteries. It has a plastic insert that holds the AA batteries in place.
Of course i’m going to have to try a Li-Ion with 2 dummies to see how that works out!
These are ringing up a little under $9 down here. I bought as a potential father’s day gift. Pretty nice units. Built very solid. Appear to be highly water resistant and build to run continuously and last a long time. Not sure what emitter is in it. Puts out a extremely wide, even, wall of light. Tint and color rendition are ok. Would like it to be better, but it’s acceptable. Especially at $9.
Number per the above pic appears to be 0000-480-624.
Well, it worked in preview, let me try my first "beamshot" from my Galaxy S6 with a broken lens around 4 feet from my custom, specially designed white wall garage door.
Those images are huge; you should use a service like Postimage or Imgur; they reduce the size of the images to make it optimal for sharing; also someday you’ll probably delete those images from your dropbox and then they wouldn’t work.
Great, ANOTHER account to set up and figure out. I usually use the basic editor and set them to 50%, but to get the strike through text to work I had to use the advanced post editor, which busted the simple editors image links. I DID set them to 800 x 450 (?) but you are right, on my phone it is still huge.
Thanks for the breakdown pic Lazy-R-us. Good stuff.
I wouldn’t say the first picture is the whole thing though. There is a good sized separate box behind the head that houses the AC/DC converter and driver circuitry. There is also a nice stand electrical cord that comes with the unit.
Here’s a reply to the mouse discussion; when we got back here, all four rat traps were occupied; the results were interesting. http://postimg.org/gallery/7z4idjqk/
One mouse had the bar snapped right on its head which popped its eyes out. Apparently their eyes are actually clear and their sockets are black.