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I dare say this wonderful light will be constantly by your side. Just set this light in the snow by the car and go to work.
If you are interested in area lighting instead of spot lighting-such as underneath a sink or in a crawl space, you cannot have a better light source. If you're looking for something in a closet or crowded garden shed, this is the ticket.
This flashlight is a tool I use every day. How about putting snow chains on your tires in the dark.
Need light during an emergency power outage. This flashlight will give you the illumination you need.
On a camping trip. Yes, the incandescent light isn't much to write home about, but it is just an extra feature-one which you might have use for on occasion.
I've given up on that side, use a regular Maglite if I need a beam.* They are very fussy about the battery charge. I have 2 complaints:* The incandescent flashlight bulbs burn out very quickly. I use this light quite often, the fluorescent light is bright and really lights up the place. Once the battery even starts to go below full charge, the light shuts off. I've replaced them several times, and I have been careful to get the correct bulbs in the Makita packaging. They just must get too hot in the lens and burn out. Not gets dim, it just shuts off with no warning. Pretty annoying when you're under a sink or in otherwise tight quarters and suddenly in the dark.I'm still glad I bought it, but you should be aware of these issues.
I had to pay to send it back to Makita but they fixed it under warranty. You should consider this part of it non-existent.
The flashlight is good but not up to the same standards as the rest of the excellent LXT line up. The fluorescent part works great - bright and runs for a long time on a battery charge.
I have just about every tool in the Makita LXT line. It's about as bright as an old 6 volt lantern.
I am very happy with the performance of the fluorescent portion. The flashlight is virtually useless.
I also had problems with my first one - it would on it's own start randomly looping through the lights - fluorescent on, fluorescent off, flashlight on, flashlight off. I have had no issues with it since.
Please ignore the negative reviews. This light is great. I have used it extensively and never had any issues with its construction or quality. I have several portable lights, but this is the light I go to beacuse it works great, in either regular or flashlight mode.
I put one of those in my BML185 and turned it into a powerful LED spotlight, with better battery life. To those who are concerned about forgetting to push the button twice to turn off the light, just take the incandescent bulb out and forget about the "flashlight" portion that you complain about anyway.
Very sturdy construction. The fluorescent light works great.
I'm not sure what was wrong with the light that other reviewer received because you sure can't get quality like this at the dollar store. (I own that, too).
The incandescent light is just OK. I'm not sure why Makita is still using incandescent bulbs in their 18v lights when their 10.8v light has a nice bright LED bulb.
If anyone's interested in converting the incandescent light in their BML184 or their BML185, you can get an 18v LED bulb on ebay shipped for under twenty bucks. If the incandescent portion of this light was replaced with a nice bright battery saving LED, I'd rate 5 out of 5.
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