Second light to complement the FloLight LED500 for interviews?
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This is an example:
http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=productDetail&productId=283284-1390-GU9802-T8-BKSS&lpage=none
About $48. Notice it says that it has an electronic ballast. I didn't see the model I first bought in 2004 or 2005 which was around $55 for a 4 tube kitchen fluorescent ceiling mounted fixture. If you spend a bit of time you can put some kind of mounting on the back to make it easier to put on the ceiling at an angle or on a stand. The one I had was something like this:
But without the latices across it, just a diffusion panel on it and kind of a wood grain finish on the sides. I mounted some pvc pipe on the back and used that for my stand mounting.
http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=productDetail&productId=283284-1390-GU9802-T8-BKSS&lpage=none
About $48. Notice it says that it has an electronic ballast. I didn't see the model I first bought in 2004 or 2005 which was around $55 for a 4 tube kitchen fluorescent ceiling mounted fixture. If you spend a bit of time you can put some kind of mounting on the back to make it easier to put on the ceiling at an angle or on a stand. The one I had was something like this:
But without the latices across it, just a diffusion panel on it and kind of a wood grain finish on the sides. I mounted some pvc pipe on the back and used that for my stand mounting.
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T8 bulbs are 32w each so 2 bulbs is 64w and four bulbs is 128w. Electronic ballast is vital to keep away flickering issues. Magnetic ballasts will almost certainly have flickering issues.
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Maybe yes, maybe no. Depends upon the size of the screen of course. There have been DIY screen efforts in the DIY section of the site that only used 4 of the 4 foot long 2 bulb T8 fixtures and the results were not bad.