Select Home Depot Stores: Milwaukee 450 Lumens LED Spot/Flood Headlamp Expired

One thing that is often overlooked on LED lights are the Color rendering index (CRI). The one on Amazon may be cheaper or brighter but often they have a lower CRI compared to the Milwaukee Trueview ones. If you're using your light for work, the CRI helps a lot in making the color you see more accurate rather than just washed out.

You guys should feel free to buy whatever you want, but at the same time should truly try and understand the fact that lumens are a measurement just like candelas and where you may feel inclined to utilize that number as the reason to buy the light, you're missing the entire point that actually makes this light good.

This flashlight is a HIGH CRI light. Everything you guys have posted are cool white LEDs with LOW CRI. Those LEDs are cheap. The drivers in them are cheap. Everything about them are cheap. They cost nearly nothing to make and have absolutely zero quality control on their LED color temperatures.

Enthusiasts and people who actually work with these lights fully understand that high CRI lights are the way to go, and all your cool white LEDs are garbage. Its why honda ricers drive around with 6500k-8000k colored headlights while the BMW drivers have 4000k-5000k color temperatures.

4000k is the sweet spot in my opinion for LED temperature color. 90+ CRI is all I will buy anymore. If you want cheap headlamp LEDs go buy them from aliexpress or alibaba or urlhasbeenblocked and be done with it.

If you want quality LEDs then look at Emisar, Noctigon, Thrunite, Zebralight, Acebeam, Fenix, Sofirn, Wowtac, Haikelite, Imalent, Lumintop, Convoy, Astrolux, Skilhunt and some Milwaukee.

Stop thinking Lumens are the be all to end all with flashlights. Most of these flashlights don't even hold their top lumens for more than 30 seconds before they Step Down and drop their brightness noticeably.

It's also worth nothing it takes FOUR TIMES the number of lumens for one light to look twice as bright as another light.

The Milwaukee brand has done a good job bringing in high CRI leds to mainstream products where you typically won't find any US companies using high CRI LEDs with proper LED color temperatures.

Look at companies like OLIGHT that make a killing selling the worst LED color temperatures and forcing proprietary batteries down your face to force you to have to buy their batteries.

Outside that, find me another high CRI headlamp for $20 with a lifetime warranty.