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I seen something on here or another forum where a guy has a light on the pillar of his LCT press when loading handgun rounds but cant seem to find anything.

I also need more light on the bench and thought about a cheap harbor freight plug in work bench light. will these mess with my Lyman digital scale at all?
 
ohihunter2014 said:
I seen something on here or another forum where a guy has a light on the pillar of his LCT press when loading handgun rounds but cant seem to find anything.

I also need more light on the bench and thought about a cheap harbor freight plug in work bench light. will these mess with my Lyman digital scale at all?
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You can likely check out the local Home Depot, Lowes, or Menards for something you could get to work. If you want something made up Inline Fabrication has lights that will work on your press. I have one and it works great. I don't know what I did without on-press lighting.

-Jeff
 
I have a couple 4 foot flourescent lights mounted over my reloading bench. They do not affect my electronic scales.

The new LED tube lights might be better. I got some at Costco for good prices.

Google Search on "reloading press lights" and lot of options come up. Midway, Sinclair, and Iine Fab have them.
 
Hornady makes a LED press light that fits on my LCT press. It's in the $15 range. Got mine on sale @ Midway for under $10 a while back.
 
I doubt adding lighting Fluorescent, LED, Incandescent or otherwise will effect a good scale. I have a RCBS digital scale sitting here which is made by PACT and twenty plus years old. Turning a small old fluorescent lamp on and off only effects the scale when the old slide switch is moved. Once the lamp is on it has no effect on the scale readings. For bench lighting I like some of the new style LED flood lamps or under cabinet types. Harbor freight has a good selection in addition to places like Lowes and Home Depot. Anyway, I don't see any quality digital scale being bothered by noise generated by lighting.

Ron
 
lauderdale said:
Was fluorescents I believe were credited for messing w/digital scales?
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Yes because of their ballast transformers and in newer units the electronic ballast. A quality fluorescent fixture will not allow noise to run back into the power source (your AC mains power) and a good digital scale will have adequate power supply filtering and line isolation that small amounts of line noise should not effect the scale operation. Additionally a good scale will adequately shield from any stray RF Emissions from florescent tubes or other sources. This without getting too deep into it all.

Ron
 
Inline Fabrication sells kits, but if you're handy with a soldering iron (or if you can just muddle through it) you can save some money and just buy a whole roll of the LED strip and a few connectors. You just cut it to lenth and solder the jack on it. You will find all kinds of places to stick that stuff.
 
thanks for the help guys. I like the cheap book light idea as im a huge cheapskate. the one I remember seeing the guy had like strip lights mounted to the pillars of the press I thought it was a great idea. I have also been looking at home depot at the under cabinet LED lights. I found one pretty cheap for like $15. right now I have a basement light which is about 8 ft away and a desk lamp sitting on the bench.
 
If you go the cut to fit led's you can use a special connector to power up, or solder leads on. Most require a 12vdc power supply, they will work off a 9v battery. If you want/need brighter use the 5050 LED's 600 count. These are about 70% brighter due to larger LED and twice the amount. I used these to light up my shop. They are powered by a 12v power supplies. The nice thing is that I can pretty much put them anywhere I need lighting.
 
Cannibul said:
Get the new LED shop lights. They are the bomb!
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This is a little off topic but what the heck. For about 45 years of my life electrical engineering put beanies and weenies on the table, put clothes on the kids and got me through life. There was ongoing discussion regarding LED lighting and a saying LED Vs Incandescent and LED is winning. I never dreamed a decade ago that LED lighting would ever evolve to where it is today, then too, in my sad defense, lighting was not my forte or specialty. Fortunately for the lighting industry. :)

Today's options in LED lighting are unbelievable and slowly as we refinish rooms in the house I am adding all LED illumination. Using LED floods in pantry and kitchen and they are great. Have a magnetic base LED light bar on my gun safe door above the combination tumbler and it is great. Just helped the neighbor install outside LED floods and again great. I ate it on those old bets and some of the guys still haunt me over that. Darn happy I retired, cuts down on the egg on my face. :)

Ron
 
Paint your loading bench white and you will be surprised what a difference that makes. It will amplify what ever light you have in the room and make finding the ever escaping little doodads much easier to find.
 
Strip lights are cheap on eBay. You can probably find one with an adaptor already installed for about $2 TYD.

I seen where Rural King will have the 4' work lights for $16 IIRC.
 
rskent said:
Yea, but for that to happen I would have to clean it off. Not gonna happen.
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I said the same thing when I read his post and looked down and had a good laugh when I seen yours. I said yeah that's not happening I have too much crap.
 
Blue68f100 said:
If you go the cut to fit led's you can use a special connector to power up, or solder leads on. Most require a 12vdc power supply, they will work off a 9v battery. If you want/need brighter use the 5050 LED's 600 count. These are about 70% brighter due to larger LED and twice the amount. I used these to light up my shop. They are powered by a 12v power supplies. The nice thing is that I can pretty much put them anywhere I need lighting.
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Blue, I want to learn about this, any recommendations where to start?
 
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