Flatrate
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Timbers are awesome, you should check them out!
Held up fine, just ate up to much growth space. IIRC it left me with 22-24 inches of space to grow.
Raising and lowering large LED fixtures
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Hah! I know this is an old thread, but my first thought was "this guy rigs!"
These work well, you never have to touch once adjsuted.
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Not so much, i have many friends who do though. I primarily worked LX and riggers are often co-workers on arena shows. A buddy of mine did most of the Phantom chandeliers for the national touring companies and others are out with Cirque du Soleil.
smokey0418
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I made 4 aluminum blocks that are split and attach to the bars on the ceiling .
Two at the front have eyes , the back each have a pulley.
I then have my ratchet strap from the front eye to the back through the pulley down to the fixture.
Each eye and or pulley are directly above there lift points.
I have couple box levels glued on and can raise or lower and level in a few moments.
Very surprised someone is not selling them.
Comparator
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If you have the ceiling hieght then connect a rubber coated wire w/ loop on each side like the cased leds came w/. A clip to each mounting location makes one wire going across the front and back. Now just click your x2 ratchet ropes to these x2 wires. If growing big plants & have proper, finned, thermal mngmt then zip tie the lights to the ceiling & let the plant grow into its intensity. Every inch counts. I know it's an old thread but that's how I do it. 
OldMedUser
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I just connect the corners across with some twisted chain then use the same kind of chain to hang from using little 'S' hooks. Lift the cross chain and set the hook for height on each end. My 8-tube T-12 fixture weighs in at 36lbs and it's worked fine for it for 20 years now. My little LEDs or HIDs are a lot lighter so it's really easy. Can get the light right up tight to the ceiling as well.
The cross chains can be adjusted to lay flat against the top of the light to get 3 more inches of clearance or even run over the support bar at the top so no hanging chain is used. If I want to tilt the light I just put the hanger hooks to one side or the other to get the angle I want.
The fluoro fixture in my DIY grow tent. Wife uses it for starting her tomatoes and other plants every spring. Going to switch out the ballasts and replace the T-12 fluoro tubes with T-8 LED tubes. Already have the ballasts and tubes so just need to clip out the four old ballasts and replace with 2 smaller ballasts that do 4 tubes each so should shed about 5-8lbs as a bonus and save a lot of power. Will wire it so I can use 4 or all 8 tubes. With the others I could use 2, 4, 6 or 8.
The cross chains can be adjusted to lay flat against the top of the light to get 3 more inches of clearance or even run over the support bar at the top so no hanging chain is used. If I want to tilt the light I just put the hanger hooks to one side or the other to get the angle I want.
The fluoro fixture in my DIY grow tent. Wife uses it for starting her tomatoes and other plants every spring. Going to switch out the ballasts and replace the T-12 fluoro tubes with T-8 LED tubes. Already have the ballasts and tubes so just need to clip out the four old ballasts and replace with 2 smaller ballasts that do 4 tubes each so should shed about 5-8lbs as a bonus and save a lot of power. Will wire it so I can use 4 or all 8 tubes. With the others I could use 2, 4, 6 or 8.
Comparator
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Yes, same concept. I've usually put ReBar under the tight wires, slide that rebar onto the two ceiling hooks for max hieght! Nice!I just connect the corners across with some twisted chain then use the same kind of chain to hang from using little 'S' hooks. Lift the cross chain and set the hook for height on each end. My 8-tube T-12 fixture weighs in at 36lbs and it's worked fine for it for 20 years now. My little LEDs or HIDs are a lot lighter so it's really easy. Can get the light right up tight to the ceiling as well.
The cross chains can be adjusted to lay flat against the top of the light to get 3 more inches of clearance or even run over the support bar at the top so no hanging chain is used. If I want to tilt the light I just put the hanger hooks to one side or the other to get the angle I want.
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The fluoro fixture in my DIY grow tent. Wife uses it for starting her tomatoes and other plants every spring. Going to switch out the ballasts and replace the T-12 fluoro tubes with T-8 LED tubes. Already have the ballasts and tubes so just need to clip out the four old ballasts and replace with 2 smaller ballasts that do 4 tubes each so should shed about 5-8lbs as a bonus and save a lot of power. Will wire it so I can use 4 or all 8 tubes. With the others I could use 2, 4, 6 or 8.
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Drop That Sound
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Canadian, so my response would be I, eh?