My $25.00 Light Fixture - Mr. Bubbles

[Mr.Bubb|es]

I see a ton of post about CFL lighting and fixtures and thought I would post a simple fixture I dreamt up you can make for less than $25.00. I used this about 2 years ago with amazing success.

You need;
Bathroom light fixture
2 ft piece of 6" duct
2 eye hooks, 2 nuts
Old cord

Here are some shots I hope to give some people ideas and inspiration to build your own. All the pieces bolt up like a sandwich with the wood giving the duct its shape.

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When you are ready you can add Y splitters for another dollar or two.

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[mels]

Real clean man.

[amoril]

heh, mines simpler than that

I built a grow box, and drilled holes in opposite sides at variable heights, and run dowel rods through the holes. Buy some of those cheap clamp-on construction lights at home depot, and clamp to a rod

rods - 0.97 each
clamplamps - 5 each
y-splitters (2 bulbs per clamp) - 1.00 each

[Synned]

Originally Posted by Mr.Bubb|es

I see a ton of post about CFL lighting and fixtures and thought I would post a simple fixture I dreamt up you can make for less than $25.00. I used this about 2 years ago with amazing success.

You need;
Bathroom light fixture
2 ft piece of 6" duct
2 eye hooks, 2 nuts
Old cord

Here are some shots I hope to give some people ideas and inspiration to build your own. All the pieces bolt up like a sandwich with the wood giving the duct its shape.

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When you are ready you can add Y splitters for another dollar or two.

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It looks real clean, but why bother with all the trouble? A $3 surge protector works just as well, except for the mylar.

i hate to add to the naysayers, but you can get a good MH or HPS for about the same money on craigslist

but if you wanna go with cfl's your setup is as good as any

[BUDACIOUS]

[quote=Mr. Stinky;3702875]i hate to add to the naysayers, but you can get a good MH or HPS for about the same money on craigslist/quote]

Maybe not for $25 but damn, they sure are much cheaper on CL than anywhere else, what cost me $800 at the hydro store I found for $200 (plus extra's he thru in for free) on CL. But a CFL solution works better in some cases, mother plants, etc, or where heat makes HPS less of an option, like small grow boxes with limited air flow and judging from some of the cfl grow journals here they produce a good bang for the buck. Im working on a second grow box now that is tall and narrow and will be using 36" Flor. Tubes hung verticaly and something like this $25 fixture hanging from above. Of course I do I love the buds my 600w HPS produces...

If women were pot plants, most would die virgins, be burned to ash and forgotten by tomorrow... Worse, if men were pot plants most get yanked up by our roots at the first sign of puberty and tossed in the trash...

Do people think of this stuff when they aren't stoned??

[shafro]

you might also try ebay. I got my 400 watt hps for $40.
The results are far better buds then my previous cfl grows

[Synned]

[quote=BUDACIOUS;3703580]

Originally Posted by Mr. Stinky

If women were pot plants, most would die virgins, be burned to ash and forgotten by tomorrow... Worse, if men were pot plants most get yanked up by our roots at the first sign of puberty and tossed in the trash...

Do people think of this stuff when they aren't stoned??

lol, but at least we give them the best and happiest life we can while they are growing (most of us that is). and we took them from seed and gave them conditions for life. I put more dedication into my grow than I've ever put into school or anything else...haha.

[Mr.Bubb|es]

Originally Posted by Synned

It looks real clean, but why bother with all the trouble? A $3 surge protector works just as well, except for the mylar.

How exactly is surge protector and mylar relevant again ?

[Mr.Bubb|es]

Originally Posted by shafro

you might also try ebay. I got my 400 watt hps for $40.
The results are far better buds then my previous cfl grows

I find that hard to believe a decent bulb is about 40 dollars. Sounds like a homemade socket ballast combo and a fire hazard to me but I have been wrong before.

"you might also try ebay." Not sure what I need on Ebay I own 400 and 600 Lumatek digital ballasts and sockets

This is nothing more than a thread to inspire the many peoples who opt to grow with CFLS.

[amoril]

dowel rods, at adjustable heights, also make great rods to hook a HPS/MH reflector too in addition to the CFL clamplights

[powrd]

Yeah this is not a bad way to go for $25. Only $25.. and if you can get your light fixture for atleast 1 plant that is pretty good.

everyone is so negative lately. haha.

[toastybiz]

You can get a multi-outlet surge protector and then buy these cheap little adapters that are a light socket on one side and a plug on the other. Plug those into the surge protector, screw the Y adapters in, and off you go.

Mr.Bubb|es, you may want to get those plants closer to those CFLs, because of their low lumen output their light intensity is very low after only a couple of inches of distance.

[Mr.Bubb|es]

"Mr.Bubb|es, you may want to get those plants closer to those CFLs, because of their low lumen output their light intensity is very low after only a couple of inches of distance."

Thanks for the tip but unless you got one of these;

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AND 1.21 Jigawatts of power I am not sure how its going to help.

Here are some pictures of them finishing up VEG under the CFL's. This is day 38 from germination. Very bushy to say the least.

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[amoril]

very nice lookin youngins there bubbles