Anyone need some cheap CFL's and 400W HID's

[TheEquineFencer]

I was in Goldsboro dropping off a job application and found these. the 400W HID's are $25 each, the guy said they had a warehouse full of them. The 23W/100W CFL's, I'll let you know later on how they work out, Linda bought 6 to try out in the horse barn. 2/$1.00, yes $0.50 each! I think the 13w/60W were like 4/$1.00. I didn't see any 300W ones.

 

[G_P]

$100 each for those fixtures? Are they insane? Those will still be there in a hundred years.

 

[James-W]

I don't know that the price is that far out of line. I did some checking at Grainger and the prices are pretty high. I know that Grainger is not exactly the cheapest place around to buy stuff, but even so, industrial fixtures do tend to be more expensive.

http://www.grainger.com/category/hid-ballast-housings/indoor-hid-fixtures/lighting/ecatalog/N-9gz

 

[Strouty]

Those are $25 lights. I junked a bunch of them because no one around me wanted to buy them and I did not want to ship them. I got about $7 each in scrap and I still have bulbs and various wires and heat sleeves.

 

[Charles (in GA)]

Those 400w MH fixtures are pretty much the same ones I have. Lithonia with poly carbonate reflectors which can be adjusted up and down to change the focus. That particular variety is a high bay but you can spread the light by raising the reflector all the way up and they work pretty good. (mine are at 14-15 ft). I paid $40 each for mine (13 fixtures with about 19 bulbs) back in 2006 or so, finally installed them in Sept '08. I would not offer over $15 each for them, provided they work, and are 120v capable.

Mine came out of a Wal-Mart or Sams when the Atlanta area stores were converted to T8 fluorescent, due in part to the liability of the open bottom fixtures coupled with some amount of power savings (as many of the stores have skylights and the new fixtures have light sensors and the lights cycle on and off depending on the daylight coming thru the skylights. Something you cannot do with a MH.)

Charles

 

[TheEquineFencer]

I don't know that the price is that far out of line. I did some checking at Grainger and the prices are pretty high. I know that Grainger is not exactly the cheapest place around to buy stuff, but even so, industrial fixtures do tend to be more expensive.

http://www.grainger.com/category/hid-ballast-housings/indoor-hid-fixtures/lighting/ecatalog/N-9gz

That's what I was thinking, new they are high priced. That's why I went away from them on this last shop. My first shop they were free. The CFL's are dirt cheap. I was thinking even at $25 each, that's a lot cheaper than $40 + bulbs for tandem T-8 fixtures. And these have the hangers with them too.

 

[GuyllFyre]

Wish I were somewhere close to there as 400 Watt HID high-bay fixtures like that, with bulb, ballast, and reflector, are $150 minimum.
For $25 each, if they include bulbs, are a steal.
I've set these up in early start greenhouses, indoor hydroponics lighting for plant growth, garage lighting, and "winter sunlight replacement" for a couple of people.
Can't beat an HID for lumens per watt and longevity.

 

[jdsac]

Just search you local craigslist- they turn up all the time-
here's some real cheap ones- $10- each...

http://longisland.craigslist.org/for/4605688655.html

$20 each gets you these...

http://newhaven.craigslist.org/bfs/4607793014.html

 

[GuyllFyre]

Just search you local craigslist- they turn up all the time-
here's some real cheap ones- $10- each...
http://longisland.craigslist.org/for/4605688655.html
$20 each gets you these...
http://newhaven.craigslist.org/bfs/4607793014.html

Well, those aren't "local" to me as I'm in UPSTATE NY, not the city area.
They don't often come up for sale cheap like that in this area.

 

[G_P]

Years ago all the home depot's in my area ripped out all the high bay lights and replaced them with long fluorescent fixtures.
Not sure what they did with the old fixtures but they must have had thousands to get rid of.