T5 lighting questions
Couple questions I'd like to bounce off you folks..
1) What guage wire do I need to wire up T5 sockets? It looks like 18 guage solid core that needs to be able to push into them. Is this correct?
2) The plan is to have 8 24" (24w) T5's on the light rack. I have a Workhorse 7 ballast which is supposedly good for up to 220w. 8*24=196w so I'm within the limits of the ballast but the ballast only has 6 leads. Can I wire all 8 lamps in series with all 6 leads, or would it be better to split it in two, and do 3 leads to one set of 4 and 3 leads to another set of 4? These are only 24" lamps so the linear length of the lamps is 16 feet (I have no idea if that's an important detail or not..)
4) For the "actinic effect" what do people like better: URI or Gieseman? Or are they about the same?
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