Here's the fixture I haven't been able to shut up about for the last few days; I picked it up this morning. Lamps are Sylvania 60w cool white SuperSavers running on a 90s Advance ballast that's full-power but doesn't have PCBs, the best kind IMO! It runs quietly and not very hot either!
Yeah that's happening soon for sure! It's already serving as the main light for this room, just wired to a plug and on a switched outlet...
Mounting will be "fun" for sure, I'm going to have to recruit help for sure! At least 2 or 3 people. Like two to hold and mutter profaninties while one runs around with the cordless screw gun!
Suspend this! A lot easier than hardmounting this. I've never hardmounted anything over 2ft (the 3ft undercabinet light doesn't count since it had keyholes so i installed the screws and then the fixture.
Yeah I might, depending on where it ends up going. If it's on a drywall ceiling I'm going to hardmount it but if it's on anything else I'm certainly suspending it.
If it's going on a drywall ceiling, all the more reason to suspend it so the ballast doesn't overheat. It would look better hardmounted if it's a living area though.
I ended up suspending it on a not-totally-finished ceiling. It was much easier than the 4' troffers to put up, I was surprised. Only took like five minutes for the whole job! (Sans brainstorming first).
yeah suspending fixtures is pretty easy to do by yourself. After getting the hooks set and get a chain installed on the fixture, I fully assemble the fixture (no lamps yet) and move the ladder under one hook. I put the fixture on top of the ladder and climb the ladder. then i hook one isde on and let it hang vertically. i move the ladder under the other hook and grab the end of the unhooked chain and pull it towards me and get on the ladder and hook that on. Than if i need to adjust the chain to level the fixture i do so. then i install the lamps (i install starters ahead of time if required) and lastly i plug in the light.
I've tried installing the lights without the reflector and then installing the reflector after the light is installed but holding the reflector while trying to tighten the screws proved harder than just installing the light fully assembled so that's what i do now.
I did this without the channel covers and lamps to make it easier/less heavy and it was a bit tricky to assemble but thankfully these have those little things you give a quarter turn to hold the channel covers on. Lamps were a little tricky to put in, though, as I'm not used to handling 8ft lamps at all and also the fixture was swinging around.
yeah the channel is much lighter than a reflector and the quarter turn things make it easier. All my lights have wingnuts ecept for my 1973 RS light which has two screws and my MEtalux turret had those hand-turn screws. The turret i installed with no reflector since it's very user friendly to install. One had has a pair of catches that the reflector slides into to hold it and you screw in one hand-turn screw and then you go install the other one (you don't need both but it looks better with both and it's more secured.
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Mounting will be "fun" for sure, I'm going to have to recruit help for sure! At least 2 or 3 people. Like two to hold and mutter profaninties while one runs around with the cordless screw gun!
The 8' lights are a bit hard to hardmount by yourself but I was able to suspend it by myself. I could hard mount 4' lights by myself though.
I've tried installing the lights without the reflector and then installing the reflector after the light is installed but holding the reflector while trying to tighten the screws proved harder than just installing the light fully assembled so that's what i do now.