Wrap Light With Cover Off

You can see the sockets are staggered in height. Originally this was a single lamp unit, using the taller sockets you see here. I was going to buy a single lamp ballast but they're over 20 bucks at Lowe's and WalMart so I decided to make it a three lamper. I was going to use all short sockets but those don't work in the middle because the lamps don't clear the 90-degree turn clips (in fact, the outer lamps brush against the reflector when they're installed) so I kept the original sockets for the center lamp and used the short sockets on the outside. I actually like the look of this. It ALMOST resembles a halfpiper in this configuration. Lamps are new Philips Alto II high-efficiency 830 lamps BTW, also from the ReStore like this fixture.