Nighttime Grill Lighting

[chef k-dude]

Even though daylight savings time doesn't end until November 2, it's already getting dark earlier. It hit me that I have several grilled meals in my near future meals plan. I keep my grill just inside the garage door and usually roll it just outside that garage door on to the gravel driveway for grilling. Even with the floodlight out there, it's still hard to see whats on the grill well when it's dark. I've used a headlamp and other alternative ways of lighting and it hit me to search for grill lights.

I wanted something quick to use last night so I found these little lights on amazon for $10! They came with a nice little case too...for some reason.

They seem of nice quality for the money and the magnets are strong.

I rolled my grill around to the back deck because I was going to be deep frying two different types of fries at the same time grilling lamb burgers. So I positioned the grill 90deg astride of the cart I had the deep fryer on to easily go back and forth and in through the back door through the garage to the kitchen. It was starting to get dark by the time I was toasting the buns. These little lights work pretty good.

I bought these cheap ones just to have something, but pretty happy with them. I'm curious if folks here have suggestions for, or use something even better than this. There IS a back porch light just a few steps from where this grill is sitting but it doesn't cast light well enough on its own.

Any suggestions for stepping up my lighting game beyond this?

 

[gmc2003]

The Beer Pole is all I need.

 

[hooked on smoke]

Ha, I use those same lights. They work well. Following for upgrade ideas.

 

[mike243]

I put a Blink flood lite up at my back door, lots of light as it has 2 heads, liked it so much put 1 on the front, auto on with movement means I can go out the door and it pops on and you can set as to how long it stays lit. tried a lot of lights and such and use a lot of head band types still.

 

[Chris_in_SoCal]

I use this everywhere not just the BBQ. It is very bright.

I recently picked it up from Amazon.

I like that it uses 18650 cells. If it runs low I can quickly swap them out and use a high quality charger to recharge them instead of the cheap charger it comes with.

 

[chef k-dude]

The Beer Pole is all I need. View attachment 725854

I remember seeing that. I wanna see how well it lights the grill!

I put a Blink flood lite up at my back door, lots of light as it has 2 heads, liked it so much put 1 on the front, auto on with movement means I can go out the door and it pops on and you can set as to how long it stays lit. tried a lot of lights and such and use a lot of head band types still.

I've thought about replacing the back deck light with something brighter, and I've been wanting to add a camera back there too. I grill in two locations as I mentioned and the Ring floodlight at my garage door doesn't light the grill the way I would prefer. Cant turn the grill open side toward the light to improve it because then I'm standing in the way!

I use this everywhere not just the BBQ. It is very bright.

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I recently picked it up from Amazon.

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I like that it uses 18650 cells. If it runs low I can quickly swap them out and use a high quality charger to recharge them instead of the cheap charger it comes with.

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One of my first thoughts was the corded halogens I have (old school) but figured knowing my luck I would trip on the cord. The cordless version you have is definitely and improvement. I would want it on a pole or stand kind of shooting over my shoulder I think.

 

[normanaj]

I use a similar setup,the only real difference is mine besides being magnetic can also be clipped on and they have dual lamps.And I do have a 20v jobsite LED too.

 

[clifish]

I use either a head light or a magnetic goose neck light

 

[Winterrider]

If can fin a way to hang above, I bought this a few yrs ago for ice fishing. Very very bright https://www.amazon.com/10000mAh-Fla...refix=rechargeable+light,aps,153&sr=8-39&th=1

 

[bill1]

I've mounted 2 LED floodlights in my cook area. They're intended for permanent architectural lighting so are rugged and seem electrically (120vac) safe. But the larger headlamps with 3 18650's keep getting better I use those a lot.

 

[Hockeydudde]

Just checked out the Amazon ones chef k-dude posted. They are 50% of right now. Grabbed two packs.

 

[Bworx]

Even though daylight savings time doesn't end until November 2, it's already getting dark earlier. It hit me that I have several grilled meals in my near future meals plan. I keep my grill just inside the garage door and usually roll it just outside that garage door on to the gravel driveway for grilling. Even with the floodlight out there, it's still hard to see whats on the grill well when it's dark. I've used a headlamp and other alternative ways of lighting and it hit me to search for grill lights.

I wanted something quick to use last night so I found these little lights on amazon for $10! They came with a nice little case too...for some reason.

They seem of nice quality for the money and the magnets are strong.

I rolled my grill around to the back deck because I was going to be deep frying two different types of fries at the same time grilling lamb burgers. So I positioned the grill 90deg astride of the cart I had the deep fryer on to easily go back and forth and in through the back door through the garage to the kitchen. It was starting to get dark by the time I was toasting the buns. These little lights work pretty good.
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I bought these cheap ones just to have something, but pretty happy with them. I'm curious if folks here have suggestions for, or use something even better than this. There IS a back porch light just a few steps from where this grill is sitting but it doesn't cast light well enough on its own.

Any suggestions for stepping up my lighting game beyond this?

Randomly ran across this post. I use these under my small patio. Very bright! They screw into standard lightbulb sockets.

 

[Bworx]

Randomly ran across this post. I use these under my small patio. Very bright! They screw into standard lightbulb sockets.

And I use this when I am at my large offset smokers out in the open. This one is insanely bright. I don't have neighbors on the side I hang this on. If I did they would hate me lol. We also take this camping and use it outside at our cabins when the fam BBQ's.

 

[Bworx]

And I use this when I am at my large offset smokers out in the open. This one is insanely bright. I don't have neighbors on the side I hang this on. If I did they would hate me lol. We also take this camping and use it outside at our cabins when the fam BBQ's.

Btw they sell quite a few different brands of both lights but they are pretty much the same. Just get the brand, wattage and price you like. Btw the big orange light is awesome in a garage, shop or patio working on cars. I also used it when I remodeled our bedrooms. You can add more lights to it since it has a plug on the side. But 1 is more than bright enough. You can't beat it. I've had the same one for roughly 5yrs now and it's still going. Hope this helps.

 

[chef k-dude]

Randomly ran across this post. I use these under my small patio. Very bright! They screw into standard lightbulb sockets.

I have eyeballed those before. Thinking about getting those for my garage but I bought a bunch of incandescent bulbs when they were threatening to ban them. Trying to use those up but at this point just the power savings using the LED's might be worth more than those bulbs!

And I use this when I am at my large offset smokers out in the open. This one is insanely bright. I don't have neighbors on the side I hang this on. If I did they would hate me lol. We also take this camping and use it outside at our cabins when the fam BBQ's.

18,200 lumens, I'd say so...just dont look directly at them!