What Should I Use to Put Six 23watt Spril CFL's In?

I have 6 23watt spiral CFL's. and i have heard of people saying they braided some kind of wire to connect the CFL's to or something. Should i buy some sockets or is there somethin cheaper that i can use to power 6 23att CFL bulbs?

You can get those bathroom mirror sockets that hold like 4-8 CFL's, each bulb sits around 3inchs apart. Or get some V-sockets that hold 2 each. Peace

You can get a couple power strips or extension cords and put these into them and put the bulbs in them:

I just had this exact same problem today, i went with 4 vanity fixtures at walmart and it had 3 bulb places each, maby $9 a piece

I'd use sockets.....LOL J/K...Go to a hardware store and buy vanity fixtures like bigtb said or get some y sockets and put 2 bulbs in 1 socket..Good Luck..

The person on here who soddered(spelled wrong i'm sure) the lights straight to the cords kept having lights burn out on him so definately use sockets..

What are these called?

You can buy two-wire sockets at Lowes from $0.97 each to $2.77 each. Wire together with 12-16 guage wire and connect with wirenuts. Making a fixture frame out of pvc is also a piece of cake.

TheConstantGardner said:

You can buy two-wire sockets at Lowes from $0.97 each to $2.77 each. Wire together with 12-16 guage wire and connect with wirenuts. Making a fixture frame out of pvc is also a piece of cake.

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Are these the two-wire sockets?? I saw these at Lowes 2day for like $2.69.....How do you make a Fixture Frame out of pvc?? pics?? thanks..help greatly appreciated.

If you can follow me.. i took a 3 light fixture and it had 3 wires coming out of the back. At walmart i got a little plug looking thing but 3 prong, like the white one above, and it unscrewed in half. So inside it had 3 screws and you unscrew one and the hole gets bigger and then place the wire in and screw it tight. Do that for all three and plug in to socket.

Or go ghetto(my fan) cut an old extension cord and strip the wires and then twist the 3 wires to the corresponding wires and it should work.


sorry for the confusion hope i can help

Y-Splitters also work great:

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think this is what TheConstantGardner was talking about