I know... it's way too wordy... Do you think it's safe? It runs a little hot but I'm going to put some holes in the plastic casings of the bulbs for ventillation. I'm also planning on mounting two 3" fans on either side of the top to blow air across the outside of the shroud. There will be a third fan on one side of the inside part (where the bulbs are) top blow air across the bulbs. On the other side is where I'm going to mount an exhaust fan (this is supposed to go into a rubermaid box) so there will basically be two computer fans blowing air across the top, and on the bottom one computer fan blowing air towards a bigger exhaust fan which will be drawing air currents off the three fans. I'm going to set it up and run it empty for a couple of days. I'm hoping it won't burn my house down

I'm sorry for the lack of pics... I made the tutorial after I made the project. I was pretty excited to share it with everyone... I can probably get some more junk sheet metal and take some pictures of me re-making the parts... I'll post the pics here if I can do that and let you know... It would be great for this one to get immortalized. The way I see it, if you buy one of those hydrosun cfl units or whatever, it costs like $150, and once the bulb goes, thats like $60-$80 to fix... This bad boy cost me less than 1/4 of all that and I can replace the bulbs as needed for a fraction of the cost, plus mix and match to get more light frequencies...