MakitaDML810 18V X2 LXT Lithium-Ion Cordless Upright L.E.D. Area Light, Light Only

Awesome light. Very well made.

The light of my life

Here is the good part: The quality of the light this thing puts out on high is really, really solid.It's got something like 200 separate, small LEDs and then a bunch of reflectors and internal lenses in the light head to help smooth out the output. You can tell that a bunch of nerdy engineers spent a lot of time perfecting the design of this thing.The work they did shows, and there is really zero compromise switching from halogen to LED with this work light. You still get a really smooth, even light in all directions and it is quite powerful with a pretty good distance/throw. For example, in residential painting or drywall work, you can put this one light in the middle of even a quite large room and everything is suddenly really well lit - the walls the ceilings, all of it. You aren't going to be dragging this around constantly as you work, it floods a very large area perfectly and evenly.Normally you will plug it in, but if you have no power on the job site, you can run it off your Makita tool batteries if you need to. This does work, but it will eat through a lot of batteries if you try to run it all day on high.To save power in battery mode you can turn it down. Honestly, that kind of defeats the primary purpose of the thing as a powerful, broad area light to light up large spaces. Or you can switch off half of the LEDs and turn it into a directional light. I find that usually works better for me than running it on low power.Would I buy this if I expected to never have job site power and knew it would be running off my tool batteries all day, every day? Maybe. I think battery operation is more of a convenience thing to have if you need it occasionally. That is how I use it. You don't have to run a cord to it all the time, but if you are going to run it all day you will want to.As for the design, it is pretty rugged and solid. But the upper handle is essentially the only real guard for the lamp head. The actual head is encased in a thick plastic that should protect it reasonably well, but I worry about it getting all scratched up over time. I can still throw it in the back of the truck, but I am careful about trying not to throw stuff on the lamp head to keep it from getting scuffed up. I kind of wish it had a cover for the lamp head for when I throw it back in the truck.Don't get too excited about the extra plug, it is more of a gimmick than something useful. The only thing that can plug into it is another one of these lights so you can daisy chain them together. IThe cord it comes with is much too short. But fortunately the cord wrap on the side is beefy enough to hold a long extension cord. I throw the power cord in the huge, empty battery compartment and the extension cord on the exterior cord wrap. Not really something you should have to furnish for yourself at this price, but at least there is an easy work around.If I had designed this, I would have put a charger in the base so it could charge the batteries when plugged in, and put 4 power plugs around the base with sturdy rubber gaskets on them so it could double as a power distribution box and battery charger. All of that could easily have fit in the base, so it is a little disappointing they didn't make better use of the bottom half of the tool.All in all, it is sort of a typical Makita product, very expensive for what it is, but very high quality and likely to last a very long time. I got a really good deal on one, but it is a tough sell at the retail price they have it at. You are not going to be sorry you own this, but it is definitely big money to buy.

I have two of these and I give 3 stars for simple reason and here is the -1st!!! Mikita needs to fire there engineers.. you pay 350 for a light this big it should have a charging port on this light! It’s so big and soooo much empty space inside there absolutely no reason they couldn’t put a charging system in this light the other thing is the cord to short!! Cmon Mikita put a 20 ft cord.. what is it with the 8 ft cord??? Maybe it’s 10 or maybe it’s 5 all I know is that I’m alway adding a extension cord because I’m alway 5 to 10 ft short. With 2-5.0 battery you might get close to 3 hours.. this lights so big they could have put 4 battery lol .. Now the good? This light get it!! Nothing better on the market I have found.. it’s so bright it would light up a 30x30 room light daylight and great for drywall finishers what I use them for. If you wanted you could take this light camping and I bet you could put it on the edge of a camp ground and you would have plenty of light to see everywhere you need to walk.. put it to close you have every bug in a two mile radius flying to the light.. it’s so well built I bet you could drop it from a plane and it just bounce! We throw them around all the time.. you can just spin it across a room and it just keeps upright once you get it down . If it goes to far over it will not return upright but a kick pops it right back up .. no doubt this light well built it’s not light in any means it’s way heavier then I ever thought it would have been.. I’m guessing 25 lb maybe more ..

Much bigger than I expected, but perfect.

Leider nicht das Erwartete. Ich benötige eine Lampe für den Innenausbau. Diese muss so hell sein, dass Unebenheiten und Tropfnasen sichtbar werden. Die Lichtkapazität von 5000 Lumen reicht hier nicht aus. Zusätzlich wirft der Diffusor durch die Bauart bedingt dünne Schatten auf die Wand. Ich werde auf den anderen Scheinwerfer von Makita mit 10000 Lumen umsteigen. Ansonsten sehr große, durch Bojenfunktion sehr schwere Lampe. Wer viele 1 Tagesbaustellen hat oder abends alles von der Baustelle abzieht braucht leichtere Bestrahlung.