PFO Lighting

Well I ordered my PFO lighting 1 month ago. At the time my LFS told me they would be in the following friday, but alas it's now a month later. From what I understand the IC fans I upgraded to were back ordered until this Tuesday so I'm finally going to get them this Thursday. If all is right in the world.
Now I just have to come up with a brilliant way to hang them. I have radiant heat from the celling and my wife does not want some overly obtrusive fixture? So I can't attach then directly to the celling.

I think I will use shelf brackets and 1"X1" to create an arm flush with the celling.

Any Suggestions or pics would be great.
;D 8) : :-/ :-*

Thanks
J

 

Hey J - Any thoughts now that you have them or pics of the setup?

 

Hey Matt,
Well my wife hates them I'm unable to mount them using aircraft wire to the cieling because I have radiant heat and the heating coil goes right to the spot I would need to tap into. So I made an elaborate wall mount that gave way while the fixture was still in my hands. So now I have outdoor rot-Iron brakets suspending the lights over the tank. Do to light spill I had to put the canopy on. I love it and so do all the corals now being adiquatly lite. The shroom pic and the snail pic are under the new lights but the photo period is very short right now. The lights themselves are great the IC fans are silent and everything that PFO promised is perfect.


J

 

Good to know about PFO.

But your wife has to be happy dude! Any ideas?

Hey did you see that bicycle hoist idea I posted on here a while back? It's 40 bucks!

 

Ya I saw that. I think the current solution she can live with. This week end I'm going to build a narrow cabinet to hold the Ballast. Then get a light controler so that I can minimize the cords. She'll be much happier then

J

 

Hehheh. Cool.

When you are done, post some pics!

 

Well here it is right now, you can see why my wife hates it :-[ , but I have big plans to make it better I hope. Well see
I'll post again once the cabnet on the right gets built to house all the power conections.

Later
J

 

Hehhe. What's wrong with that?

It's got kind of a dungeon feel to it.

Your plan sounds good. That should do it.

How are the coral adjusting?

 

I was never able to find "sade Cloth" that JohnO suggested but I have been keeping the Photo Period to about 3 hour with the MH and the VHO about 10. I will bump the MH to 4 next week. All the corals seem great. I've never seen them plump up like they do while the lights are on very cool. even the shrooms and bigger

J

 

i think he meant 'shade cloth' hehe.

Well just from that picture, your leather and hammer? look happy.