You can never have enough light in a workshop and it can never be too flexible – as anyone who has struggled with a 40w inspection lamp on a lead will tell you – so these three LED solutions are certain to go down well.
Sealey’s two portable, rechargeable floodlights offering 20w and 30w respectively, will lighten up the darkest corner of your workshop, shed or even your garden regardless of the availability of mains power, offering much more than a torch just because they are floodlights. No struggling with pointing them in the right place or finding someone to hold them steady: unfold and switch ’em on.
The lower powered LED190T will produce up to 1600 lumens – about the same as a 60w halogen headlamp on main beam – but as a bright ambient light without a point of focus and in a hue closer to daylight than you might expect. 112 Surface-Mount Diode LEDs spread between the two panels can operate on three brightness levels for up to 10 hours – which we suspect will be in economy mode with its 8.8Ah rechargeable Li-Ion battery running just one of the panels – but even then, you’ll be amazed by how much difference that light makes.
Stepping up a gear, the LED191T can boost the light output up to 2300 lumens across its 144 SMD LEDs, at the expense of time: you’ll get 7.5 hours from the same battery as fitted to the LED190T – which, again, we suspect will be in economy mode – but how long do you need?
Oh, you want to use it in the workshop all day? No problem: both come with a mains charger, which will limit your movement a little, but only until you’ve got some juice back in the battery.
The folding design serves two functions, helping you to point light where you need it and protecting the lights in transport.
If you need a bit more light – sorry, a LOT more light – there is a mains-only member of the family, supplied with a 3m mains lead: the LED192T. This more than doubles the light output – 4800 lumens from a pair of 30W COB Epistar LEDs – which can be directed more effectively thanks to a pivoting mount in the folding case.
And just in case you need more flexibility than just standing them up using their cases in a self-supporting role, there is a telescopic tripod that works with all three cases – the LED193ST – that will get them off the ground.