LED worklights - good price

[tom h]

Check this out, a 60 LED worklight with retracting 33 ft cord & reel for only $55.

Often a 30 LED light with a plain cord (no reel) sells for around $70 (eg, Ferret Instruments)

http://www.northerntool.com/webapp/...=200307147&R=200307147&cmemid=EFP090501p01c01

Unfortunately the item is back ordered for at least a month -- must have been a popular christmas item.

 

[Turbo Indian]

my daddy always told me you get what you pay for, NTE has alot of china made crap.

 

[tom h]

Originally posted by TurboIndian
my daddy always told me you get what you pay for, NTE has alot of china made crap.

It's hard to find consumer items that _aren't_ made in China nowadays, either in part or in whole, or at the very least assembled in China.

There is a lot of crappy stuff made there, also some pretty good quality items, although it requires much vigilance on the part of the american designer/importer to ensure quality is consistent.

There's been a lot of news concerning how IBM sold their PC division to a Chinese company ... but IBM laptop & desktop PCs have been made in china for many years! So what will be the difference ?!

There's actually more "IBM made in USA" parts inside an Apple computer than there ever was inside an IBM computer!

A few years ago there was a fiasco concerning crappy quality of the IBM Deskstar hard drives. I had 3 drives fail in 1 year, and a Google search showed 1000's of people were reporting same problems, and IBM even had a class action lawsuit filed over those Deskstar drives.

Since switching to "made in China" Western Digital drives , I've had zero problems.

My point is, you can get bad quality from USA or China, and you can get good quality from USA or China.

But given a choice, and all else more-or-less equal (which it often isn't), I prefer to buy North American (USA, Canada, Mexico) over China.

 

[MeanBuicks]

Sad commentary...

 

[87grandnational]

Originally posted by MeanBuicks
Sad commentary...

hahahaha thats great, i love it

 

[tom h]

The retracting 60-LED lamp arrived today. It seems fairly decent, especially for $55 + $10 shipping.

The actual lamp housing is a little bulkier than I'd hoped. It's smaller than a typical 1 lamp, 13 watt fluorescent worklight, but bulkier than the Ferret Instruments LED worklight.

Compared to a 2-lamp, 26-watt total Fluorescent worklight I have, the LED is much brighter. The Fluorescent spreads its light over a broader area so never gets really bright on any one square foot. Subjectively, the LED lamp intensity on a given square foot is maybe 2 times brighter than the 26 watt Fluorescent.

Northern's web site decribes the light as having a 33 foot cord, but the box says 50 foot. Can't tell until I install the reel and measure the cord length

It also looks that Northern Tool has had a price increase from 54.99 to $59.99.