LED Worklights

Laurence wrote on 8/31/2005, 1:23 PM

Here is a link for some corded LED worklights:

http://www.budgetlighting.com/store/agora.cgi?keywords=pledwl&xm=on&ppinc

It seems like they might be really useful in low budget video lighting. What do you guys think?

I called up the company and left a tech support question asking about the color temperature. Hopefully they will get back to me.

Comments

winrockpost wrote on 8/31/2005, 1:49 PM

All the led lights I've seen are extremely blue, now that doesn't mean these may be different.

Laurence wrote on 8/31/2005, 2:09 PM

I was thinking of using them instead of cheap fluorescents for interviews in the following context:

http://www.film-and-video.com/broadcastvideoexamples-30bucks.html

Grazie wrote on 8/31/2005, 11:35 PM

I've been keeping my eye on the development of these LEDs as potential "work-lights" for the last 2 years. I'm in communication with several researchers and developers here in UK. I have had to "bone-up" on my physics on this.

Lite Panels have a rather jolly set - price is restrictive for me. These links got me going:

Enjoy

Grazie

ZGC

Lite Panels here

farss wrote on 9/1/2005, 1:34 AM

There's a flood of cheap LEDs coming out of China, look on eBay. I have many LED torches that use them, grat for torches or worklights but they're nothing like the selected Luxeon LEDs that go into Lite Panels. Just looking at one of my LED torches every LED is a slightly different 'white'.
Bob.

B.Verlik wrote on 9/2/2005, 11:46 AM

Those prices are ridiculous. You'd be better off going to Radio Shack and buying a simple electronics book and soldering a bunch of LEDs together for about $40. I don't know the dynamics of putting these together, but I know it can be done fairly cheap and it's not rocket science either. Now I almost have an excuse to buy one of those "heatless" soldering guns, advertised on TV.

Chienworks wrote on 9/2/2005, 12:01 PM

Some sort of diffuser panel in front of the LEDs would probably be a good idea. They have small hot spots, usually around 5 to 15° and the brightness falls off rapidly outside this area. All the white LED's i've toyed with also seem to be very blue in the hot spot and aren't really white until you get outside that area. A diffuser would even out the intensity and average the colors together.

richard-courtney wrote on 9/3/2005, 12:12 PM

Sorry to open a duplicate thread but anyone try
vidled.com units? Less expensive Sir Grazie.

I don't do alot of night shoots here, too many moths and mosquitoes. But have needed something for grap and run shooting.

Zulqar-Cheema wrote on 9/5/2005, 3:44 PM

I have the IDX Lite, that I did a review back in March, works great and on my 4.5Ah brick (SLA) it lasts over 5 hours switched on continuously, with no heat, an added safety item when you have kids about. Also has a dimmer on it as well

Output is about 30watss fro 11watts of power

If anything it can be a little bit blue, but not that noticeable.

http://www.idxtek.com/x3.htm