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Originally Posted by wiste  Great project. Any thoughts on how this could be done if the wall mount is not practical? |
If you were unable to mount this on a wall, you could mount it on brackets mounted on the back of the tank stand/cabinet. To crudely illustrate: nail a vertical 2 x 4 to each corner of the stand. On the back of the 2 x 4's mount a horizontal 2 x 4. Mount this light fixture to that horizontal 2 x 4.
I've been wondering if there were a way to manufacture the parallelogram linkage so it was of adjustable length, and have it mount on the back of any light fixture and to the wall. I'm convinced it is a pretty simple engineering job to design such a universal mount, but since I don't work with metal except for rare occasions, I can't make a prototype. But, I would think there would be a market, given the increasing popularity of open topped tanks.