A comment on Tamiya's Workstand's Light Bar

I think I'll stick with the fluorescent desk lamp I fished out of the trash dumpster a few years back. I don't know why whoever owned it threw it away; there's not a thing wrong with it. (Maybe they were moving and didn't want to haul it around with them.)

It's amazing what I find in the dumpsters in this apartment complex; today I found a perfectly good carry-on bag.

dragos wrote:

... The question is: can the leds be replaced with others more powerful?

AFAIK not without DIY modification.  Mine is many years old and had 3 LEDs per side with each LED drawing 75 mW or about 1/4 Watt per side.  They were useless   Maybe the current version has better LEDs.  I replaced the original light bar with two 1 Watt LEDs or 10x more power than the original and it's now very usable.  Unfortunately these hi-power LEDs are $5 each, requires additional parts, soldering, etc. - not a plug-and-play solution.  But I depend on that magnifier...