My friend Bob stopped by with his new flashlight. He’s from the mid West but was here on the East coast for some training. He’s in the military. He brought along his new big light to show off. Here are some pictures.
As you can see it is “Milwaukee” brand. Here it lies at my feet.
My friend Bob has a thing for all things “Milwaukee”. Here is a picture of his truck 
(just kidding, that’s the Milwaukee guy at Home Depot)
This light had plenty of heat sinking for the emitters
Count them, 10 emitters.
This is a HEAVY light, not easy to hold. You’ve heard of “cigar hold”, we call this “Bazooka hold” 
Then there is what we call the “B.A.R. hold” (Browning Automatic Rifle)
Another angle
How about some beam shots!
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I wish I knew how to do mouse overs with the new advanced text editor. These next 2 pics would be much more impressive.
Here is the control shot
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The low modes are kind of boring, so I’ll only post “Turbo”
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OK, so by now about 10% of you are thinking somethings not right here. And you would be right.
This is not a flashlight at all, it’s a worklight.
A couple of weeks ago, Bob and I went on a Home Depot shopping spree. We went down to Long Island and hit as many stores as possible looking for deals. This light is one that Bob found. List price is $250.00, but 1 store had it marked at $175.00. It happened that Bob didn’t see the sticker, so he brought it up to self checkout and it scanned for $125.00. Then he went to a manned checkout and got his additional 10% military discount. That brought it down to 112.50. Pretty good deal for what it is.
This light is battery operated, it runs on Milwaukee drill packs. Here it is running on a single pack, there is room for a double pack.
This “flashlight” has legs and a telescoping head!
The head swivels and can point straight up or down.
While he was here we constructed an AC power supply for it with an old dead Milwaukee pack we got at the Home Depot recycle bin and an old 19V laptop power supply we got from the bin at BestBuy.
We stripped the guts out of the battery pack and wired the leads from the laptop supply to the proper sockets in the pack.
Now, how many lumens?
The description says 2000, and that seems about right. Plenty of light for most indoor jobs.
As I mentioned, there are 10 of these. They look like XB-D’s
He was excited to get this, and for awhile it looked like he wouldn’t be able to get it on the plane for his return trip home.
But he did, Oh well. :cry:
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