Build Your Own Fluorescent Light Fixture

You need to buy a spiral cfl with the proper wattage you want.

Build your own fluorescent light fixture.

From scratch without buying light fixtures and taking them apart. To replace remove the old tube and bring it to the hardware store. Or you can read the printing on the tube to identify the correct replacement type. This is great fixture for growing plants.

A burnt out lamp is the most common reason any light fixture does not light. Build a customized fluorescent lamp system t5 when growing seedlings and plants in the vegetative stage using fluorescents is a great way to provide the beloved plants with bright and balanced light. Each letter will be constructed of 4 lights. This guide shows how to build a system that will fit for almost any growing needs indoors.

I want to use bulbs that are 2 4 feet long or what ever is easiest. I want to build several letters out of fluorescent light bulbs for example one letter is o but it will look more like. Locate a ballast as i mentioned above i have been recently experimenting with using spiral cfl ballasts to power other bulbs. For t5 s and pc bulbs the wattages are basically equivalent.

This greatly decreases the cost of the fixture.