Build Your Own Fluorescent Light Fixture
Locate a ballast as i mentioned above i have been recently experimenting with using spiral cfl ballasts to power other bulbs.
Build your own fluorescent light fixture. This is great fixture for growing plants. Or you can read the printing on the tube to identify the correct replacement type. A burnt out lamp is the most common reason any light fixture does not light. Just attach the bulb ballasts plug it in.
A fluorescent tube that is failed or failing usually has darkened areas near one or both ends of the tube. Each letter will be constructed of 4 lights. Now for building your own fixture. I want to build several letters out of fluorescent light bulbs for example one letter is o but it will look more like.
This greatly decreases the cost of the fixture. You need to buy a spiral cfl with the proper wattage you want. I want to use bulbs that are 2 4 feet long or what ever is easiest. Build a customized fluorescent lamp system t5 when growing seedlings and plants in the vegetative stage using fluorescents is a great way to provide the beloved plants with bright and balanced light.
From scratch without buying light fixtures and taking them apart.