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Picked up from Craigslist today in the FREE section: 15 hung ceiling recessed florescent lights. Four footers, four bulbs each. A guy took them out of a store he was hired to renovate.

I already have some up in the shop. Put them up years ago. With the diffusers they provide great light. You can run them either two or four bulbs. I screw them to the ceiling and cut some strips of sanded 3/4" plywood and build a box right around them. These lights don't hum or flicker as they're made to go into businesses and homes. They make the best shop lights.

The ones I have up have been great but one of them needs a new ballast (expensive). These lights have working ballasts and bulbs installed in them. Most have in-tact diffusers on them too. I'm going to use a couple for parts, put up a couple more and save the others for myself and my kids and nephews/nieces, all older now and some with shops of their own at their houses. Good for things like laundry rooms and such too.

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Picked up from Craigslist today in the FREE section: 15 hung ceiling recessed florescent lights. Four footers, four bulbs each. A guy took them out of a store he was hired to renovate.

I already have some up in the shop. Put them up years ago. With the diffusers they provide great light. You can run them either two or four bulbs. I screw them to the ceiling and cut some strips of sanded 3/4" plywood and build a box right around them. These lights don't hum or flicker as they're made to go into businesses and homes. They make the best shop lights.

The ones I have up have been great but one of them needs a new ballast (expensive). These lights have working ballasts and bulbs installed in them. Most have in-tact diffusers on them too. I'm going to use a couple for parts, put up a couple more and save the others for myself and my kids and nephews/nieces, all older now and some with shops of their own at their houses. Good for things like laundry rooms and such too.

Wood Automotive exterior Gas Vehicle door Machine


Wood Shade Paint Fixture Wood stain
Looks to be a good score there Daniel.
As long as the price is right and they still function there is no reason why they cannot "live on"
As you say a failure generally decided their fate otherwise.
 

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Picked up from Craigslist today in the FREE section: 15 hung ceiling recessed florescent lights. Four footers, four bulbs each. A guy took them out of a store he was hired to renovate.

I already have some up in the shop. Put them up years ago. With the diffusers they provide great light. You can run them either two or four bulbs. I screw them to the ceiling and cut some strips of sanded 3/4" plywood and build a box right around them. These lights don't hum or flicker as they're made to go into businesses and homes. They make the best shop lights.

The ones I have up have been great but one of them needs a new ballast (expensive). These lights have working ballasts and bulbs installed in them. Most have in-tact diffusers on them too. I'm going to use a couple for parts, put up a couple more and save the others for myself and my kids and nephews/nieces, all older now and some with shops of their own at their houses. Good for things like laundry rooms and such too.

Wood Automotive exterior Gas Vehicle door Machine


Wood Shade Paint Fixture Wood stain
Check the ballasts!!!

This bring back a memory of a friend of mine telling me that Delta Airlines corporate office in Atlanta had trashed a bunch of fluorescent lights during a renovation of the executive office area. He took me to the dumpster and I loaded up my car with all the lights I could hold to put in my shop ceiling. "Oh Boy!!!" I was thinking all the way home. "all these lights for FREE!". It turned out all of these very nice lights were ballasted for 440 volts! By the time I bought all new ballasts and installed them before putting up the lights I paid almost as much as new lights would have cost.
 

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Picked up from Craigslist today in the FREE section: 15 hung ceiling recessed florescent lights. Four footers, four bulbs each. A guy took them out of a store he was hired to renovate.

I already have some up in the shop. Put them up years ago. With the diffusers they provide great light. You can run them either two or four bulbs. I screw them to the ceiling and cut some strips of sanded 3/4" plywood and build a box right around them. These lights don't hum or flicker as they're made to go into businesses and homes. They make the best shop lights.

The ones I have up have been great but one of them needs a new ballast (expensive). These lights have working ballasts and bulbs installed in them. Most have in-tact diffusers on them too. I'm going to use a couple for parts, put up a couple more and save the others for myself and my kids and nephews/nieces, all older now and some with shops of their own at their houses. Good for things like laundry rooms and such too.

Wood Automotive exterior Gas Vehicle door Machine


Wood Shade Paint Fixture Wood stain
Check the ballasts!!!

This bring back a memory of a friend of mine telling me that Delta Airlines corporate office in Atlanta had trashed a bunch of fluorescent lights during a renovation of the executive office area. He took me to the dumpster and I loaded up my car with all the lights I could hold to put in my shop ceiling. "Oh Boy!!!" I was thinking all the way home. "all these lights for FREE!". It turned out all of these very nice lights were ballasted for 440 volts! By the time I bought all new ballasts and installed them before putting up the lights I paid almost as much as new lights would have cost.

- Planeman40
Nope, all's well with them. A temporary connection on a few of them shows them lighting up.
 

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