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Overdriving is fine, especially if you are on a budget. Do it with T8, not T12's though. The shop lights at Home depot aren't made they way they used to be when the ODNO DIY articles were published. You have to buy the individual ballasts and end caps and wire the thing up yourself. It is quite easy to do. I have pics of a setup I did if you need to see them.
Truth be told, if I hadn't had so many electrical parts already on hand it would have been cheaper to get a T5 setup. If you figure that I am using 8 ballasts at $25-30 a pop, plus all those endcaps at about $3 a set for the cheapest non-waterproof kind and about $10 a set for the ones you should use you can see that a T5 setup would be a great way to avoid the pains of doing it yourself and getting more light and using less energy for not much more investment.
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