Lights Up Down Easy

I've benefited so much here from other peoples' findings, I thought I'd share one I found.

I had my lights (3 4'x2 FL + 1 400 W HPS) on chains. My grow is in a 2x4x10 closet split in half (grow/flower) with a black visqueen (plastic sheeting) wall down the middle.

After my plants grew a bit and moving lights up and down became a real pain I decided to redesign.

Here's what I came up with.
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I got rid of the chain and replaced it with 1/8" nylon line. I tied one string to each end of each light and ran it up through an eye bolt in the ceiling (I used 1/4" toggle bolts but replaced the 'bolt' with 1/4" eye bolts).
So now my lights were hanging via the string from the eyebolts. I ran the string from the 'far end' eyebolt through the other eyebolt (for the same light) nearer the middle of the closet. Now I could pull the pair of lines and move the light up and down. I just had to tie them off somewhere.

I installed a 'cord lock' referenced above in the ceiling just past the 'nearer center' eyebolt for each light (Just a bit closer to the center of the closet than the 'nearer' eyebolt and in line w/ both eyebolts for the light).
I ran both 1/8" lines through the 'cord lock'.
Now I can move my lights up and down and they 'auto-lock' in place just like venetian blinds.

I've got all 4 lights set up that way and they're *really* easy to move up and down now.

What do you think?

Very Nice! I prefer chains tho, I'm so unlucky when it comes to little things going wrong and costing me big so I over do it safety wise. I know those are commercial grade and will probably hold up fine for decades so the idea is great!

What does it look like?? We Like Pictures. VV

Also wondering what our total cost was. Sounds like an excellent idea, some drapes can be heavy, it should handle the weight. VV

Sorry, no pics. I don't have a digital camera.
Cost? That's part of the beauty. They're like I think $2.50 each plus the nylon line which I got at HD for about $4.00. So it's less expensive than chain.