Best Dewalt Flashlights / Torches

This is the most amazing, robust & reliable cordless spotlight you will ever own! – Whenever I go camping or boating and have this with me, people fall in love with it. It has a really bright (1000 lumens rated) spotlight which has… Read more

a true 400 metre throw!

Whilst Dewalt rates this torch at 1000 lumens, I suspect that is very conservative as it outperforms many torches I have which are technically rated above 1000 lumens. It runs on the 18V or 20V slide style rechargeable batteries.

I have just bought my second one of these so I can leave it in my boat. Exceptional performance and remember if you don't like it, Dewalts 30 day satisfaction guarantee has you covered! You can return it for ANY reason if you should not be satisfied with their tools, providing you bought it from a registered dealer of theirs.

Having said that I am a true Dewalt fan and have never had to return any of my 40 plus Dewalt tools for ANY reason whatsoever! You can hence see why I am such a fan.

Bright, simple to use and good runtime – I got a couple of these lights via redemption on a couple of other DeWalt tools I bought. I’ve used them a few times now and I’ve found them to be… Read more

very bright. The DeWalt Australia website specifies a maximum output of 1500 lumens, while Total Tools, Sydney Tools, Bunnings and Mitre 10 specify 1000 lumens. A reader has informed me that DCL043 Type 1 is 1000 lumens, while DCL043 Type 2 is 1500 lumens (and I have the latter).

I haven’t used them for long enough to drain a battery, though run-time is allegedly more than 10 hours, which seems good. In addition to projects around the home, I reckon they’ll be a useful light to take camping, although their cool temperature light lends themselves more to jobs/projects/work than relaxing at camp where a warmer light would be better.

The lights are simple to operate with just one button used to cycle through two light settings (low and high) and off. There is a decent spread of the beam, with stronger focussed light in the centre of the beam. I can see the hook at the back of the light being useful at times. One thing I would have liked is the ability to point the light downwards, so that it could be sitting on a surface (e.g. a table) and directly lighting up that surface. However it only has the ability to shine between horizontal and vertically upwards, with indexed positions in between.

At $189 a piece, I’m not sure I would have bought one of these if I didn’t get them via redemption, as I prefer to use a headtorch. Portable/hand-held torches seem a bit redundant to me with such good head torches available nowadays. But now that I have them, I’m sure I’ll find uses for them every now and again. They’re a very powerful light with good runtime, and seem to be well-built and durable.