Work Light 03

I had a spare LED fog light, so decided to turn it into another work light.
Question: Why do I have 3 work lights?
Answer: I need a third work light before I can have a fourth one, of course.

To make the work light portable, I matched it up with a Makita 18V LxT battery. The design is modular, so if you're handy, you could switch the battery mount for your preferred battery eco-system.

The individual parts have some weight to them, so I added a 3mm steel bracket as a frame to the light housing frame. A 3mm steel is a bit of an over kill, but I worked with parts I could easily get.

The work light is very bright, so I included high and low brightness modes. To provide the low light brightness mode, I included an LM2596 DC-DC inverter with an output voltage adjusted to about 11V. The power switch has 3 positions, On-Off-On, switching between the high, off and Low brightness.

On high, the light delivers 4600lx at 0.5m. The light uses 24W, so should last about 3.5 ho