I've been looking into buying 3 or 4 clip on LED lights (9 inches long each) to help highlight my paintings at shows. Has anyone had any experience with these? I'd love some input. Thank you!
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I'm expecting (They'd better!) delivery of some clip on LED battery op lights today and will try them out at my weekend show. I'll report back on how they worked.
Janet, How did your light work? I'm trying to devise a way to light some glass displays and this soulds like a possibility.?
Hi, Sam. I would not recommend the ones I bought online. At my last show, a fellow exhibitor was using some simple LED strips (battery operated) that were far brighter than mine. He got them at a local Walmart store and taped them to his canopy rafters. I think they'd be great to use for your jewelry.
Thanks for the update. I'll check out Wally World, even if it is against my nature. I have tried a number of different styles of lights, and haven't found what I like, yet. I kinda have my display in a workable form, but not the lighting.
If you are going with LED, make sure you get the right white. Most LEDs are a cool blue white and not very useful for showing art. Make certain they are described as "soft white" or "daylight spectrum".
Robin
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Work lights tend to be warm white, a slight yellowish tint to them sort of like an incandescent bulb. As long as the color temp is on the warm side, from 2600K to 3200K, they'll be good to go. My flourescents are a warm light, but the current load makes it marginal for running two days and power several fans too. I bypassed the cigarette lighter plugs in favor of solid contact connections and they work much better without the false low voltage alarm on the inverter. The LED work lights are much smaller and I like the idea of direct 12V operation.
I just saw some work lights at Lowe's for $49.95 that may need some checking out. They are LED, put out 900 lumens, will run off both 12V or 120 VAC. The wattage consumption is quite low, and wouldn't pull more than 2 amps from the battery. I'm considering getting 2 or 3 of them and ditching the flourescents I've been using. That would pretty much eliminate needing an inverter as I use 12V RV fans for cooling in the booth and behind.
Janet, can you please provide the model # and/or the source for your lights? I'm interested in the same for my photos. I'm using some lights now that I'm not satisfied with.
I use a marine battery (like a car battery) for it's ability to provide 12 volt DC power over a relatively long period of time. I then attach a small "Power Inverter" to the 12volt battery which converts the electricity to 120 volt AC. This allows items with a regular household plug to be used. But... I must make sure that the Inverter can supply the total number of "watts" required by the lights.
These are LED battery operated, clamp on lights. I will buy them from Lowe's or Home Depot, but only online as they don't stock them in the stores. I can't deal with heavy batteries and inverters and such! Let me know if you still want that info.
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