vho holders
 

I am currently making a new light hood and was wondering how you could connect and hold a couple of VHO 4' bulbs. I priced out some coralife end caps and brackets .. but they were 31 bucks. That was more than I paid for the bulbs. I need to separate them by about 8" so I can fit a couple of 175W pendants between them at either end. Does anyone have a DIY (read cheap) way to do this?

I have seen a design on Garf.org
You could always make one out of wood and use hole saws to make the half circles needed for the bulbs.
Many ways to do this.

I had thought about wood (which I can easily do) but would you think the tubes get to hot?

I would say no way ross.
If the tubes dont get hot enought to melt the acrylic then I wouldnt worry about the wood.

Good point, thanks for the tip...I'll tell yo how it goes.

Cool.
Send me some pics of what you come up with if you have time.
Thanks