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Old 01-25-13, 10:24 AM   #32
TimJFowler
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Lightbulb Recycle an old fluorescent tube fixture

Here's another idea for enclosing the LED transformer and providing a heatsink for the LED's.

Recycle an old Fluorescent tube fixture, the long white steel box kind. Go to you local Habitat For Humanity Re-Store or equivalent appliance salvage place and find a suitable size fixture, they should be quite cheap. The fixtures are generally made of white painted sheet metal and are almost certainly a UL-approved design. An added bonus if it has a light diffusion cover that you like.

Remove the old fluorescent ballast, replace with the new LED transformer. Drill and mount your LED modules on the top cover. Reuse the light diffusion cover or make something better. Test, mount to the wall and Ta Da!

That should provide a solid, easy to mount structure for the light, meet code requirements and look clean and finished. Tell me if I missed something obvious.

FWIW,
Tim
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