I might but I'm having trouble coming up with mounting hardware to suspend it and I'm also considering installing it in my bedroom in place of a 22w circline adapter or on the ceiling about where I was standing to take this pic. Both of those locations are on high, sloped ceilings and will require multiple people, though.
Ah the lowe's here sells Metalux suspension kits for about $5 or $6. It's a pair of V brackets and two 3ft chains. I bought one for my Metalux turret and one for the light I'm going to install in my grandpa's shop's bathroom **someday**. Hopefully sooner rather than later...
For the one over the window I used those staples you use for wire fencing, hammered them into the rafters, and used Gangion (A type of fishing gear) to hang them, along with old ballast leads. It's admittedly a little on the redneck side but it works For the other one I used screw-in hooks. Here I can't just run out to the hardware store (nearest one is 70 miles away or a week if I mail-order anything) so I use what I have
That F96 fixture is going to be PITA to install wherever I put it...I might be picking it up today.
Yeah I use screw in hooks and then chain any light i have so I can swap them out as I wish lol. The 1973 shoplite is a little hard to switch out the way i have it mounted so i leave it up. Yeah for the slimline (well for any install) i recommend "overdoing it" since that way you can be sure it will never fall. The hooks i just could probably hold my body weight if i tied a rope to the hook and pulled myself up with the rope lol. The hooks in the laundry room are less robust but that's because they were already laying around the house. For the garage, i bought a 20 pack of hooks with extended necks (so that they screwed into the joist and not just the drywall) since that's the only quanitity they came in. So I have plenty of hooks lol.
Here I pulled on them pretty hard first...These have since had diffusers added, and random junk being stored on top of the fixtures. I've also since hardwired them together, but the one toward the right has a plug going to a switched outlet. It's not a very neat wiring job but it's temporary as I've said.
Ahh so they're both plug-in but share the same plug? not a bad idea lol. My lights all plug into duplex outlets on the ceiling which are controlled by switches (since keyless lampholders were there orginally). The only light that's not controlled by a wall switch is the F20 undercabinet light, which plugs into a regular GFCI outlet and had a rotary switch on it.
I don't have that luxury...no fixed ceiling lights in this room otherwise I would do that.
You just gave me an idea for the slimline light though...wire it to a plug even if it's hard-mounted to the ceiling.
yeah my undercabient light is hardmounted to one of the shelves on my shelf rack and my undercabinet light is hardmounted to the wall (though it plugs into a switch-controlled outlet)
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That F96 fixture is going to be PITA to install wherever I put it...I might be picking it up today.
You just gave me an idea for the slimline light though...wire it to a plug even if it's hard-mounted to the ceiling.