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Do the color match lights help when doing coatings or is that more for swirls?

My garage has terrible lighting and trying to be prepared as possible to start my first coating. I have work flood lights I can use but wondering if one of the cheap handheld color match lights would help? If so, I would like to hear about any feedback on the cheap ones since I will probably use once every couple of years. I have looked at the Braun/harbor freight and Astro...I think I saw some other cheapo's too.

If it matters, I do have light and darkish paint (silver and gunmetal gray), if I need a dual mode light?

Thanks
 
If you have mad lightning a good color match will help. I think Gyeon makes a diffuser cover for the Scangrip made for spotting coatings.
 
Yeah, for coating the more diffused the light, the better. The Scangrip lights work but you have to turn the power down so it's not too bright on the spot or it blinds you and you can't see the coating.

The Gyeon light (which is made by Scangrip) seems awesome with those diffusers. I have contacted Scangrip trying to order the diffuser for my Multimatch R and they can't sell it, they do have diffusers for the bigger ones which cost much more than my Multimatch R did. I think Gyeon's price is similar and worth if if you'll be doing multiple coatings. For a single time, it might be too much money.
 
If you give me a few days I can get my review going on this Gyeon light. The diffuser is fantastic as I am in the middle of a coating job. Scnagrip needs to make some for the handhelds. Serves a dual purpose for viewing defects and helping with coating removal.
 
The Guz said:
If you give me a few days I can get my review going on this Gyeon light. The diffuser is fantastic as I am in the middle of a coating job. Scnagrip needs to make some for the handhelds. Serves a dual purpose for viewing defects and helping with coating removal.
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Great!!! I'm out of a job and now it sounds you're costing me $150 I don't have... if they ever come back in stock!!! LOL

Do the review and sell it to me!
 
The Guz said:
If you give me a few days I can get my review going on this Gyeon light. The diffuser is fantastic as I am in the middle of a coating job. Scnagrip needs to make some for the handhelds. Serves a dual purpose for viewing defects and helping with coating removal.
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Thanks for the review. Without sounding entitled, if you are going to re-do part 2, I like to see some comparisons along the line of:

[table="width: 800, class: grid"]
[tr]
[td]Light type[/td]
[td]Paint defect visibility[/td]
[td]Product streak visibility[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Cheap LED light[/td]
[td][/td]
[td][/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Scangrip detail light without diffuser[/td]
[td][/td]
[td][/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Gyeon Prism Plus with diffuser[/td]
[td][/td]
[td][/td]
[/tr]
[/table]
 
Enjoy. I wrote it on Autopia as it is not available here at Autogeek and Autopia is more open to products not sold by either.

Review - Gyeon Prism Plus Light

Banegio said:
Thanks for the review. Without sounding entitled, if you are going to re-do part 2, I like to see some comparisons along the line of:

[table="width: 800, class: grid"]
[tr]
[td]Light type[/td]
[td]Paint defect visibility[/td]
[td]Product streak visibility[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Cheap LED light[/td]
[td][/td]
[td][/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Scangrip detail light without diffuser[/td]
[td][/td]
[td][/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Gyeon Prism Plus with diffuser[/td]
[td][/td]
[td][/td]
[/tr]
[/table]
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I can answer this for you right now. Based on your table go ahead and put an X on each light for paint defect visibility. The Gyeon Light is a Scangrip Multimatch R with more options than the hand handheld. The scangrip hand held and the gyeon prism have more adjustability when it comes to seeing defects on different paint colors. Some of the cheaper LED lights are aimed more towards the 6000K light temperature and that is a better light for darker defects. Tends to wash out on light paints.

If we are talking about a Braun hand held which is basically a scangrip hand held version one and is available at harbor freight, then that will do better on various colors with the about 4000K light temperature. A diffuser on the handheld would be perfect.

When it comes to seeing coatings being applied and wiped off the gyeon prism plus takes the cake with the diffused light.

I will be coating a couple more light colored paints but with little to no defects.
 
Holy crap I want that light!!! Can’t find them in stock ��
 
The Guz said:
Some of the cheaper LED lights are aimed more towards the 6000K light temperature and that is a better light for darker defects. Tends to wash out on light paints.
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Great review. Thank you.

Hopefully I have enough rationale to help resist the temptation for another toy I don't need.
 
Found out about the Gyeon Prism Plus on here. Arrived today. Very impressed with the light!

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not sure what gyeon light is....what I installed is a 3 panel led garage light....all I know what a big difference in my garage lighting
 
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