Underhood Work Light - LED - Lithium Ion - 450 Lumens

Video Transcript for Performance Tool Underhood LED Work Light Review

What's up everybody. It's AJ with etrailer.com. Today we will be checking out the performance tool, under a hood, LED work light. As you can see, we already have the set up with the lights out. It's gonna be a nice way to illuminate the engine compartment of your vehicle. You know, it's nice spread out light, instead of having that one flashlight that's just for precision spots, which you can still use that, but it's nice that it's up and out of the way.

That way I can get up in here and need, mess with anything, I need to mess with it, and I don't have to worry about holding a flashlight on my shoulder or under my arm or something like that. It's spread out. I can easily see everything. Let's check it out. Taking a closer look at the light bar itself, it's gonna be 16 inches long, it's gonna be two and a half inches wide, and it's going to have eight LEDs right here.

So it's plenty bright, you saw it here, in the engine compartment, it lit up the whole thing. You have a couple of different ways you can attach it. You have these on the end, then grab onto the sides of the hood. You also have a cord that goes and retracts when its not being used. So we're gonna set it up.

Just put one on this end of the hood, its gonna to stay there and then just pull it all the way to this end and take this clamp, put on that side, and now it hangs freely. Now you can also, move it back and forth, which is pretty cool, I wasn't expecting it to do that. So wherever you need it to be, you can move it and direct that light where you need it. So you can see if you want more over here, you can have more over here. That way you're not wasting your light over there.

If you want more in the middle to cover everything, you can do that too. Now, if you need to angle it and you don't really like it moving around like that as much you can detach it here. It has got a hooks on the backside where you can specifically point it where you want. So then it's going to always be there. You don't have to worry about moving it. It's not going to move as much that way. And in fact, you can even probably get rid of this one. Use the other hook on the other side, if you had another attachment point, you find a better spot there and go up here on that hook. And let's just go ahead and use the bars propping that up, hold in place. Now it's going to move far less and it's right directly here, if that's where you need it. And there's two modes for the light. So the first one's gonna be the brightest one. That one's gonna be 513 lumens. And the second one is going to be 256. So pretty bright on that first one. The second one, just dims it a little bit, if you don't quite need all that light shining right at you. The really cool thing about it, it's got built-in magnets on the back. So it wasn't quite getting it to work with underneath the hood just because it wasn't flat surface. So it really needs all three of these magnets to stick anywhere. So the good thing is you can store it anywhere. If you wanna put it on top of your toolbox. We have a cabinet here we keep some our tools and stuff in. It's gonna sit right on their side, right next to this outlet, so I can just plug it in and keep it charging. And it's up and out away from everything else. Just to test of strength, I went ahead and put it on the side of my door. It's a nice flat contact point for all three magnets. Slammed the door, it still stays right there. So that was pretty impressive. I thought for sure it was gonna fall down. I slammed pretty hard that time, but the first time on a normal light slam. Doesn't move. When you got it plugged in and its charging, you'll see the little red light that let's you know it is charging up. Now you can still use it while it's charging. So I just want to point that out. That is important with some of these electronics. Sometimes you can't do that and that's kind of a pain. It's got a rechargeable battery here on the backside and that's what's charging up when you have a plugged in. That can be kind of nice because you can replace that and down the line, if it starts wearing out, it doesn't last for four hours and twenty-five minutes like it's supposed to, you can probably get a replacement one. They make it brand new again. So overall I think it's pretty handy. As someone that had spent plenty of time holding a flashlight, when working on stuff, I think this is gonna be way better than me holding that flashlight in the wrong spot. This gives you more coverage of the area, comparing it to a flashlight. Again, more coverage is good. It's not just one single beam and you can still use that flashlight to get specifically where you need to go, but you can also angle this a bunch of different ways to get exactly where you need it without having to have a second person to help you out. Well, I think that does it. Thanks for hanging out and I hope this helped..