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Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Milwaukee Radius Lights, To OneKey or Not to OneKey

The Milwaukee M18 Radius compact LED site lights are aimed directly at the Halogen light market. The Milwaukee lights are not dangerous as they pose no fire or burn issues or explosion risk as they don't get hot. The Milwaukee lights come in two different styles the original(2145-20) and the OneKey(2146-20), the OneKey allows the user to control the light through the OneKey app and also provides tool tracking of the light. The lights look alike with the exception of the OneKey logo and a sensor on the side of the light, they both produce the same amount of light and have the same basic functions. 

 They are practically identical on the outside with the exception of the OneKey logo and sensor on the 2146-20.

The lights also have the ability to run on AC power without a battery, and up to 10 lights can be linked together as both styles have an inlet and outlet. However the lights cannot charge a battery and you cannot turn one light off and have the rest turn off. We are getting about 3 hours of run time from 5.0ah M18 Battery.

OneKey logo and inlet

Outlet

Inlet and Outlet under their respective covers

The light can be place on the ground or a work surface. Plus it can be hung upside down via an integrated hook on the bottom. The hook can go around a stud or a pipe. The light also includes a security cable to lock it down to prevent theft.

Light upside down with hook up.

The lights use the Trueview high deffinition LED's, they produce up to 4400 Lumens and have three power levels and three different brightness settings.  It can be used as a area light(360 deg), a overhead light(360deg), or as task light(180deg).  We took our non OneKey camping and lit up the entire campground and since Milwaukee has made these water and dust resistant as well as shock proof, you can use these on and off the job site.

This is our trailer from about 100 yards away, using one light on high 180deg, notice the trees

From about 50 yards away, notice the trees

From about 25ft away

The OneKey app allows you to control the light with your phone, you can turn it on and off, from up to 50ft away, this is ideal when the light is overhead. You can also adjust the brightness and set up schedules for the light to turn on and off. Tool tracking is another bonus of OneKey, if you report a OneKey tool stolen through the app, you can lock the tool so it can't be used and ping it's location.

At the time of writing this the Radius light 2145-20 tool only retails for $299.00 at Home Depot and the 2146-20 OneKey tool only retails for $349.00.

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