Well I posted a couple of weeks ago about a ring light that I purchase off ebay for about $20.00.  It has 160 LED's in it, with an intensity adjustment and an on/off switch, plugs into 110v, I didn't want to have to run a separate transformer or battery charger while I am milling.

The only thing I had to do to it, was cut off the thin ring on the back that attaches to a camera lens or a stereo microscope lens and glue 4 rare earth magnets on it, fits around the spindle of my Grizzly X2 type mill and puts out quite a bit of light, I was surprised.

I am going to try to post pictures, so if it works, I will be happy!

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Nice light. I've been looking for something similar for my drill press, are there more available? do you have a link by chance if there are.

There are lots of them on ebay, which is where I got mine, I goofed, I guess it is a 144 led light not a 160.

If you do a search on ebay for 144 led ring light it will bring up hundreds of listings of the various lights that companies are selling, I just purchase the least expensive one that had free shipping and was located in the US and this is what I got.

I am quite pleased with it, works quite well, as long as you have a way to mount around your spindle, then it will be GTG for you.  Like I said, I used rare earth magnets.  One thing to be aware of with magnets, be careful how you mount them, if you use a hot glue gun you run the risk of demagnetizing them.  What I ended up doing, was using hot glue on some old normal button magnets and then use the rare earth magnets between them and the mill head.

Cool thanks, I'll check them out.