What do you guys use for bright detailing lights?

[Big_O]

What do you guys use for bright detailing lights? Seen a number of posts with bright square lighting that does a great job of showing the paint progress on a detail. Where can you get some? thanks.

 

[BigJimZ28]

the square lights are Halogens

and can be bought just about any where



Lowes Home Depot, Sears, Walmart, Big lots, ect..................

 

[imported_mystic04]

i got 2 pairs of 500 watts each one set =1000 watts of light power at pep boys for 19.00 each they were on sale.

 

[Accumulator]

Note that for swirl-spotting/etc. it's not just a matter of brightness, but rather of the specific type of *contrast* provided by point-source illumination. You can often see more marring under a 60W incandescent bulb than under a few 1000W worth of halogens

 

[imported_mystic04]

i also use a small hand held light to look over work. it's way more mobile than the large lights which i use more for lighitng than for checking for swirls. didn't think of adding that to my last post. I was figuring he wanted to know what lights are used the most.

 

[VroooomCrash]

Just make sure you set them up on a sturdy stand. A friend of mine definitely knocked over two halogens on a big tall stand onto the hood of his freshly waxed NSX...which subsequently became freshly painted.