I too had trouble locating a bright white LED light, so I ended up buying an expensive unit: A 9-LED flashlight sold for $2 at the autoparts store. A $5 transformer, to power it with. A couple of feet of speaker wire, and a couple drops of solder, and it works great. I eliminated the body of the flashlight (which originally used 3 AAA batteries), and just soldered the speaker wires directly to the head of the flashlight. Mounted it onto a piece of flexjoint (that plastic stuff normally used for directing coolant). Makes it easy to position where ever desired. Went through two of these flashlights, before learning that a heat sink MUST be used, when soldering the wires to the head (the LED's are VERY sensitive to heat). Total investment: about $10.