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Old 26-01-2004, 10:36 PM
Rob Halgren
 
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Default Light fixture and humidity!

Trent-Lion wrote:

Why is this, please!
T-L

Remove the translucent


plastic panel if it has one, you don't want anything between glass-bulb
and pseudobulb.

Rob


Some of the ceiling fixtures come with a clear or translucent thin
plastic panel. When you use them in the original application (in a
ceiling), this diffuses the light and protects you from broken glass
should a tube break. But it reduces the light intensity. So, if you
use them for growing plants, go ahead and remove the diffuser. If you
are really concerned about light tubes breaking, you can get plastic
safety sleeves for them at the home center (they are just a little
bigger than a tube). If you have exposed fluorescent tubes in your
ceiling fixtures (at least in a commercial building) you are required to
have those safety sleaves by code. At least that is the rules around
here, as I understand them. But that doesn't apply to your plant stand.

Rob

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