Not quite what you are looking for, but I've seen pretty nice looking setups made out of vinyl gutter that was then spraypainted black.
Fluorescent light housings
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ha,ha.
just happen to have two 48"ers right here.
roud:
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found one in the trash. the other at a yard sale for 3 clams.
all yours.
seriously, I don't think you want to use a plastic housing for T5HO's
lots of heat and all.
I just used the reflectors off them for my
"a person could build a decent T-5 ho light pretty economically". build
two 28$(on sale) light fixtures from home depo.
and the rest of the junk I had laying around
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a little rewiring so now I can run the two inner off one ballast, the outer off the other
bla,bla, and bla you get the point
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lol, it ain't pretty, but it sure work well.
I got what? like 60 bucks and my time into the whole thing
(not counting bulbs)
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just happen to have two 48"ers right here.
roud:
found one in the trash. the other at a yard sale for 3 clams.
all yours.
seriously, I don't think you want to use a plastic housing for T5HO's
lots of heat and all.
I just used the reflectors off them for my
"a person could build a decent T-5 ho light pretty economically". build
two 28$(on sale) light fixtures from home depo.
and the rest of the junk I had laying around
a little rewiring so now I can run the two inner off one ballast, the outer off the other
bla,bla, and bla you get the point
lol, it ain't pretty, but it sure work well.
I got what? like 60 bucks and my time into the whole thing
(not counting bulbs)
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