L1315 63-LED 1681-Lumen Portable Ecozone LED Work Light; Green

Bought this light about two years ago. Used it for about 10 hours on a project that I was working on at the time. Not overly bright but good for filling in shadows. Cool, which was nice, this being my first LED work light. Used a few more times in my shop and at another project. Always used and stored inside in a dry place, never dropped or hit. Light looked brand new when it suddenly just stopped working after about 20 hours of total use. Contacted customer support who would only say it as out of warrantee. I pressed them saying that it was not reasonable for the light to fail so quickly given the good care and low use. Again, noting other than "out of warrantee". With nothing to loose, I took it apart. Power was getting o the LED panel and the wiring was intact bot the panel would not light. The combination of product durability and customer support left me cold. I figure that given the purchase price, my light cost me $2.50 for every hour that I used it.Since the time that I bought this light, I have purchased 3 other lights from other manufacturers at better prices and have received much better performance from those lights.

I purchased this LED light to replace my energy hungry, bulb eating halogen light. Right out of the box I was disappointed.The light body even though bulky in appearance is quite fragile. One good fall at a work site would break the housing. The swiveling lamp assembly refuses to stay vertical and always tilts.The light is very bright indeed but unfortunately casts a small but harsh light footprint. The light engine has no type of light reflector and relies solely on the beam spread of the LED bulbs. The beam spread is further hindered since the LED engine is recessed back in the lamp. The light engine also has no formidable heat sink. Big mistake.The manufacturer could have easily eliminated one third of the LEDs present and increased light coverage by simply incorporating a simple chrome plastic reflective system behind the LED array.Since there is a large number of LEDs, a high current inrush is generated upon activation which is something that the most deficient internal circuitry is ill equipped to handle. Further the internal circuit board has a soldered in fuse which is a cheap shortcut and is totally unserviceable by the average user unless they are bench technicians who then must completely disassemble the lamp. This fuse is sure to fail on a job site when the lamp is inevitably connected to long extension cords which is the norm. This very fuse was blown when I first received the lamp which was DOA out of the box!This overpriced lamp was obviously rushed to market with little R&D. This seams to be the case with most Coleman portable illumination devices that I have had to repair. I would not recommend it.

I am pleased with the L1315 LED work light. It is brighter than expected & ,of course, unlike the 500 watt quartz work light does not even get warm. I used it working under a porch where there was basically no light & it provided a nice even light over the entire 35ft area. The switch is a bit difficult to use because it is in a plastic enclosure which does protect it. I did not use the switch much since I was basically just plugging & unplugging it. A week's use of maybe 40 hours & it is working fine. Stand seems stable & easily adjustable. Attaching the stand simple. Price is a bit high for a work light but you do get the extra bright LED's. I like that green color - easy to locate.

It does put out a lot of light and it runs a lot cooler than an incandescent, or even a fluorescent, work light. However, I've found two annoying things:1 - It puts out a tremendous amount of power line and RF noise. When it's on, it basically incapacitates most of my home automation system (it took me a little while to figure out why lights were flipping on and off at random), and it makes listening to FM radio while working pretty difficult (and my favorite station is a strong local one). I'm going to try putting a ferrite bead on the power cord and using a filtered outlet strip to see if that helps.2 - The power switch failed after only a few times of use. Fortunately it failed in the "always on" way, so I can still use the light by unplugging it to turn it off - a minor inconvenience. If it had failed in the "always off" way I'd be more upset :-)I'm still using it despite those things because it performs its basic function well; putting out a lot of light with not much heat.