Food for thought there... I'll suss out the fluros and see how much power they drain. Last night I knocked up a small EP tray illuminator by attaching a small superbright led to a AA battery holder box, I will velcro it to one of the tripod legs above the EP's. Anyway I needed a similar sort of 'diffuse' light spread but dim and I found if I jamed the led into the end of a white plastic 2pin teminal plug (using it as a sort of holder come lens) I got a nice even spread of dim red light
A 560ohm resistor was needed to do the dimming and there is some alfoil on the back and end of the plug. It's a lot dimmer than the camera made it look.
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2006-...81/redlamp.jpg
Perhaps I could mount 2 large superbrights in opposite ends of a translucent plastic "something or other" as a solution.
I like the hutch, I like the waterproof cover idea and think I will make something similar. Thank you for the input guys!