Bayco 12-Volt Fluorescent / Emergency Work Light: Emergency work light runs from 12-volt power outlet Includes cool running 13-watt 10,000-hour rated bulb Equivalent to 75-watt incandescent bulb with natural daylight illumination-6500 kelvin This emergency fluorescent work light comes with a high-impact lamp protector with high-gloss reflector Flame-retardant yellow polypropylene handle Convenient and versatile nylon-tipped double hang hook This rechargeable work light is built with a rocker on/off switch
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Brand | Bayco |
Item model number | SL-512 |
Color | Yellow |
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Product Id | 881759 |
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User Reviews and Ratings | 3.8 (8 ratings) 3.8 out of 5 stars |
UPC | 017398100359 |
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Bayco 12-Volt Fluorescent / Emergency Work Light
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Works everywhere around the car, enough light for all my projects
This product is well made and is good looking as well as it is functional. Lights up a good work area.
I just wanted a work light in the car, just in case, and this one for the price is perfect. I wouldn't use it for working everyday, I have other work lights for that, but for occasional use for a flat tire, or with a jump pack during a power failure it's great. Note that like most 13w florescent lights, it needs to cool down if you turn it off and then want to turn it on again.
dropped it once...not working after...
I purchased this light at my local Walmart store to use as a work/task light that I could operate from a 12 V battery/solar system without having to use a DC to AC inverter. Long Story Short: Seems to be made well on the outside, the lighter plug on the end is of good quality, light weight. It ran for less than an hour before self-destructing (luckily they put a fuse in the plug which blew). Cause of death appears to be poor circuitry design overheating the semiconductors which gave up the ghost after less than 1 hour of continuous runtime. Insides are of extremely low quality. This is marketed towards people who will put it in their car trunk and "might" use it once to change a tire at night. Technical Failure Analysis: After running it for an hour from a fully-charged 12 V lead-acid battery it suddenly shut off. I noticed the "magic smoke" burnt electronics smell upon approaching the dead light. There is a 3 A fuse in the plug (the end screws off to expose the glass cartridge fuse). This fuse was blown. I put a new fuse in and connected it to a current-limited power supply and set the voltage to 12.5 V and current limit to 1.5 A. Being a 13 W light it should only require about 1 A. Nothing happened (no light) and the full 1.5 A was being drawn. I removed the screws and opened up the base. Inside is a very poor excuse for a fluorescent lamp inverter ballast. It consists of a self-oscillating inverter made from two TO-126 bipolar transistors and a multi-winding transformer. The lamp is ballasted with a high-voltage polyester capacitor (0.22 uF or so) in series with the inverter output. I think there are 8 components on the whole board, 3 of those being a LC filter on the input to prevent the cord from becoming a transmitting antenna for the nasty harmonics generated by such a basic inverter and one series diode for reverse polarity protection (a surprising feature given the quality here). Turned on the power again with current limit and started feeling around for hot spots. Burned my thumb (left a small blister!) on the metal back of one of the TO-126 packages it was that hot. Clearly this inverter has failed and its switching elements have turned into heating elements. Upon reassembling, the plastic tabs which hold the lamp base in place broke. The inverter board seems to just float around inside the base with no structural attachment to the case. Clearly a disposable item with a design life measured in minutes. Not recommended.