I may go with shop lights from Lowes, Costco, H.D., H.F. or Amazon. I definitely have been having a good time researching and learning about this.
The fixtures kind of confuse me. With florescent tubes understand that they need to reflect light back down. When it comes to LED lights in this form factor I think the reflector is mostly cosmetic. I wonder if it could be done away with? I understand that the heat sink function of the fixture is important. Do the LED T8 tubes have built in heat sinks?
Anybody know how to use the LED tubes without a fixture. There’s some tubes that take DC directly I see. What sorts of minimal holders/fixtures are there? This person 3d printed some clips - LED tube holder by TKX - Thingiverse. He just has the tubes spliced to some wire it looks like. No tombstones at all. There’s also this sort of install kit.