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Although a retrofit is a great way to upgrade your lighting to something way
better for less money, it does involve a bit of work, especially if you want
to shoehorn it into a AGA strip light fixture.

You typically have to mount the ballast on the outside of the fixture
because of the size of the ballast, reflector and bulbs. Most mount it on
the back of the fixture and need to drill holes to get the wires into the
fixture, etc... If you want a switch, you will have to wire it in
separately, but you can use a timer to control the lights w/o a switch.

I had a 30" CSL SmartLite over my AGA 54g corner for a bit before I added
medium light plants and it worked fine. Sold it when I upgraded to a larger,
higher wattage light. Nice metal fixture and it had an on/off switch. It
costs more than the AHSupply retrofit, but it doesn't have any of the
hassles either.

It all comes down to how much work you want to put into it and aesthetics.


"LM" wrote in message
...

how difficult is it to retrofit the existing all-glass strip lighting
housing with the ahsupply retrofit kit? has anyone done it with single
55W
kit?