Build Your Own Fluorescent Light Fixture

From scratch without buying light fixtures and taking them apart.

Build your own fluorescent light fixture.

This is great fixture for growing plants. Now for building your own fixture. A burnt out lamp is the most common reason any light fixture does not light. For t5 s and pc bulbs the wattages are basically equivalent.

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

A fluorescent tube that is failed or failing usually has darkened areas near one or both ends of the tube. This guide shows how to build a system that will fit for almost any growing needs indoors. Locate a ballast as i mentioned above i have been recently experimenting with using spiral cfl ballasts to power other bulbs. This greatly decreases the cost of the fixture.

Or you can read the printing on the tube to identify the correct replacement type.