*roflmao* - and you're probably not kidding. i've only ever seen this once with grow gear, and it was my friend's dad's place whose workshop also has the fabled pegboard storage.
about the vertical fluoros: *great* advice, would totally recommend it myself, i just can't deal with vertical/lateral fluoros, something about that particular light coming from under me gives me a headache (which is extra-weird because i can spend days of 12+ hrs under vertical HPS/MHs with reflective white paint on the floor, with no light sickness issues). i can't even put a fixture on its side for babies/seedlings for a few days, have to macgyver stuff so i can hang it up. i do have mild eyesight issues and i've always wondered if that's why.
thank you, DH reading this over my shoulder has an "aw shucks" look about him... :)
First off, I like your room (and kitty). Can't wait to see finished pics.
Not so wierd... I have the same issue and I learned why... here it goes... I have large pupils. (You know what they say about guys with large pupils) - LoL
What happens is, flouro's have a refresh rate of 60 times per second. In other words, they turn on and off 60 times a second. To most people that looks like constant light, but to people with large pupils, there is a flicker and some can actually see it turning on and off. This can give head aches and other side effects.
Remember the old CRT monitors? They display the image using three "guns" that draw the image starting at the top of the screen. The default setting for a windows computer what to refresh this with picture 60 times a second. I for example, can see the screen being refreshed.
Now... if you have your monitor refreshing at 60 times a second and some flouros refreshing at 60 times a second (like the lighting in an office building) and they are not perfectly in sync, it can get really strange. You know how the news shows a computer monitor sometimes and you can see a line that travels down the monitor? Well, the camera is capturing the image 28-40 times a second. It's not in sync with the monitor or the fluorescent lighting, so the images you see are much like what I see when I am in a room with lighting that has a slow refresh rate.
Sorry for the long post, but I'm a bit passionate about staying away from fluorescent lighting (and low refresh rates on CRT monitors) because it can give me a head ache very quickly. It sucks even worse when hanging fluorescents vertically as it's really in your face.