Adam wrote in about FANTASTIC deals that Home Depot is running right now on two Milwaukee M18 LED worklights.
Free 5Ah battery (or battery & charger) with the new M18 Trueview Flood lights!
YAAAAAAAAY! Sorry, hard to contain the excitement. I saw this listed on HD this last week, and always said out of stock, though I hadn’t seen it listed in my many site visits for the lights stock status.
So I actually called HD a few days ago, and after 10 minutes of researching, the guy said it was no longer being stocked. Not a direct answer to my question of when it was actually sold or was it just a place holder for a future promo, but the guy tried.
I’ve checked every day, and it’s back, or live for the first time, today. It’s almost a B1G1 deal for the $150 model. It seems like an unnecessary promo to me (from a Milwaukee perspective), as the lights were just released, and seem to be OOS more than in stock, and probably didn’t need that much of an incentive to buy.
I think that YAAAAAAY properly captures my own sentiments here.
There are 2 deals, but the bigger and better one is on Milwaukee’s new M18 cordless LED tripod stand worklight.
The new Milwaukee stand light was just released at $249, which is a very reasonable price if you ask me, especially compared to the few competing products currently on the market.
Right now, you can buy the Milwaukee LED stand light with a 5Ah battery and charger starter kit, for the same price as just the bare tool!
Read more about the new Milwaukee 2130-20 M18 cordless stand light!
I had the chance to preview the new worklight at Milwaukee’s 2015 media event (here’s a link to all of our Milwaukee media event new tool coverage), and it was very impressive. I’m still working on testing a production sample, but it’s every bit as awesome.
These LED tripod lights are sturdy, quick and easy to deploy, comfortably portable, and just fantastic in every way I could think of. Even the quality of light and color accuracy is excellent.
As Adam wrote, Milwaukee doesn’t need to offer such a great bargain on this new release – as it’s already a hot item. Not that anyone will mind!
Price: $249 with 5Ah battery and charger
Buy Now(via Home Depot with free shipping)
This is a special buy with unknown expiration date or supply limit.
The bundles includes the Milwaukee M18 stand light ($249 via HD) and a 5Ah battery with charger starter kit ($129 via HD). Since the bundle price is the same as the bare tool price, that means the starter kit is essentially free.
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The Pelican ProGear 9420XL RALS LED tripod is the only cordless LED tripod worklight alternative that comes to mind right now ($245 to $260 via Amazon). If I recall correctly, it used to cost a lot more.
Another alternative is to attach a small LED worklight, such as the Festool SysLite (or SysLite II) to a tripod or light stand, but you’re going to lose out on a lot of the versatility, durability, and ease of deployment of Milwaukee and Pelican’s respective tripod worklight products.
There’s also a deal on the Milwaukee 2360-20 M18 LED flood light, where you get a bundled battery at no extra cost. Sorry, there’s no free bundled charger with this one.
The flood light is a smaller worklight with pivoting head and 3 prong port for connection to AC power via an extension cord.
This is also a very good deal, considering that a 5Ah battery is priced at $129 by itself. As mentioned, Home Depot also has the 5Ah battery and charger starter kit for $129, which is lower priced than elsewhere. Either way, you can’t get a 5Ah battery for less than $129 (at least not from an authorized dealer).
With this bundle, you get the $149 worklight and a $129 battery at no added cost!
Price: $149 with 5Ah battery
Buy Now(M18 Flood Light Promo Bundle with free shipping)
