Need Help Hanging Lighting
 

So i've got 3 very heavy DIY LED pendants (about 40 to 50 pounds each) that I need to hang from the ceiling of my fish room. I want the 3 pendants to hang on a track that will allow me to slide the lights right or left so I can basically make room for my body to get in between any two pendants to work on the tank. I'm just not sure where to start looking for such a product because of the weight I'm looking at supporting plus the rust factor involved with a saltwater tank. Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

garage door rails?

Depends on what the top of ur lights look like? How can you mount to your lights

hey look up sliding barn door hardware. you could have one track on the celling and just roll the lights to the side.

Steve

I got my lights setup on one of these

https://garagegator.com/

Pretty easy to get the light out of the way :)

Thanks guys. Garage door tracks seemed to be the consensus with other people I asked around town too. I just didn't think that would be rust resistant enough right above salt water.

There is room to drill into the pendants so I can run a wire through the top to the bottom of the pendant and use a stopper of some kind to stop it from sliding back through. I'm open to other suggestions here too though.

That looks awesome except I only have about 20" of room above the tank to work with so I need to move the pendants left and right instead of up and down.

lights
 

try some bypass door track and hardwear-much cleaner look

I asked a few places about this and they said those wouldn't work with 150 lbs of metal hanging from them.

I vote the bipass hardware way nicer then garage door track (which I don't think would work as it needs two tracks to work ) http://www.johnsonhardware.com/sdindex.htm I use the top ones when I do sliding doors in the houses I finish

Also they come in single track most hardware stores carry them http://www.kncrowder.com/slidingdoor/c104-994.php and the will easily support well over 150lbs, lots of the doors I have hung can hit 200 lbs easy for a solid wood 8' door

Would you have a few minutes to chat on the phone about this when sometime soon by any chance?

track
 

if you have a windsor plywood out in your area the bypass door track is a double run and uses 4 wheels per roller.i've installed these in some apartments with 7'+ doors at about 40-50 lbs a door(4 doors on a track)also the by pass hardwear is a lot beefier than a normal track where the doors butt into each other

I'd like to have one single or double 10' track that each pendant can slide either direction and can support up to 150 lbs. These would accommodate that then?

track
 

the double track will.i know they come in 8' lenths,not sure about 10'.they are 3 1/8 wide,2 5/8 deep.all hardwear is included with them

Any idea of the approximate cost? Thanks for your help too.

We are also installing 8' solid core doors that are pocket/ barn door style. We use heavy aluminum tracks that come with heavy duty trucks from Hafele. Great product to work with.

So I went to Windsor Plywood this morning and ordered up a 10' bypass door double track assembly for only $130 so I'm happy with that. Capable for up to 200 lbs. They said they also use it for barn doors too. Thanks for your help everyone. Much appreciated.

track
 

you might want to mount a 1x4 or a strip of 3/4 plywood to your ceiling first,then mount the track.it will be stronger in the long run

I'm going to have to figure out a way to square up the part of the roof I'm mounting the track to. The roof slopes downwards perpendicular to the tank and tracks.

slope
 

depending on how much slope.you can make an A-frame with some angled studs,and cover it with door skins.you could always wire it and plug your lights in depending on how much room you have