This Accupro stuff is infiltrating all the fixtures from Lowe's & Home Depot. At least the T5 ones are program-start (for now). Lithonia fixtures USED to (like a decade ago) come with decent commercial ballasts, now have bottom-end electronic instant-start ballasts and ultra thin plastic sockets....these fixtures are a joke, you have to rebuild them all with yesterday's components to make them any good at all.

Same for the Metalux stuff now with the flip up sockets that look fragile and weak. Only a year or so ago they were still using a good robust design for their strips. I now simply get used fixtures that are still built well.

Yeah I agree with both of you most modern fluorescent fixtures seem to come with cheap ballasts and cheap plastic sockets. I bought a Lithonia striplight a few months ago and it came with one of those Keystone ballasts and some cheap sockets. I replaced the sockets with some new HH Y-slots and ballast with a Advance trigger start. I usually buy my fixtures from Restore now.

@Jfrog it seems that Metalux switched from using H shaped clips to the cheaper straight metal clips in their newest fixtures. I like the H shaped ones better though.