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We bought 10 LED 40 watt 6000K led tube lights, metal drive cleats for hvac ducts, and some wire nuts, sheet metal screws, a cord, and some wire nuts.
We took a 20" wide metal wire shelf as a base and simply laid out the 10 tubes with 5 at each end of the 6 foot shelf and secured the tubes with a sheet metal screw right into the back through the metal strips. It is best to screw them at the ends right in the middle to avoid hitting wires, I will admit it was a bit of a guessing game!
We used 4 strips of metal one at each end and two in the middle for support and them secured everything to the wire shelf.
The bulbs are overlapping right in the middle for 2 feet where there are all 10 tubes.
We then wired everything all together and plugged it into a timer.
Now for the cool part! We connected all four corners to those adjustable plant hangers that go up or down just like a pull down shade. We can adjust them as needed for keeping the plants exactly where we need them in relationship to the lights. When we need to work on the plants we can lift the lights all the way up to the ceiling! The final step is that we are ordering more of the plant hangers so we can suspend our clones up near the lights and just pull them down on the adjustable hanger as they grow. So all plants can be exactly the right distance from the lights based on their requirements and the umol readings. We knew our old lighting was severely lacking and was so glad to finish this set up/ We did this on Jan 1st and the plants took off! The "Milkshake Hand Grenade" doubled in size in three days (mainly bushier but was adding 2" vertically as well!) What do you think? I love it so be kind, lie if you have to.
We took a 20" wide metal wire shelf as a base and simply laid out the 10 tubes with 5 at each end of the 6 foot shelf and secured the tubes with a sheet metal screw right into the back through the metal strips. It is best to screw them at the ends right in the middle to avoid hitting wires, I will admit it was a bit of a guessing game!
We used 4 strips of metal one at each end and two in the middle for support and them secured everything to the wire shelf.
The bulbs are overlapping right in the middle for 2 feet where there are all 10 tubes.
We then wired everything all together and plugged it into a timer.
Now for the cool part! We connected all four corners to those adjustable plant hangers that go up or down just like a pull down shade. We can adjust them as needed for keeping the plants exactly where we need them in relationship to the lights. When we need to work on the plants we can lift the lights all the way up to the ceiling! The final step is that we are ordering more of the plant hangers so we can suspend our clones up near the lights and just pull them down on the adjustable hanger as they grow. So all plants can be exactly the right distance from the lights based on their requirements and the umol readings. We knew our old lighting was severely lacking and was so glad to finish this set up/ We did this on Jan 1st and the plants took off! The "Milkshake Hand Grenade" doubled in size in three days (mainly bushier but was adding 2" vertically as well!) What do you think? I love it so be kind, lie if you have to.