adubson
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So I somehow knocked out the ATO airline tubing from my sump, leaving me with (thankfully not too much) water behind my stand. When cleaning up, some water splashed on my T5 retrofit HEP ballast, it sparked, and the GFCI outlet killed the power to everything. I have the end of the ballast that got wet stuck in some dry rice at the moment, anybody have luck with this? Is it going to be safe to test it out afterwards?
If that doesn't work, anybody have suggestions on an easy to get T5 ballast for 2X39 watt bulbs?
On a side note, after wiring up this retrofit (BRS 36in retrofit kit), the ballast was very finnicky in it's ability to stay on. You'd have to jostle the cord in the timer's outlet in order to find the right place where the lights would finally come on. If you happened to adjust this exact placement, everything goes off. I tried to rewire everything to see if there was a short somewhere, but no luck. Could this just be a bad ballast, or my ineptitude in wiring this thing?
Thanks.
If that doesn't work, anybody have suggestions on an easy to get T5 ballast for 2X39 watt bulbs?
On a side note, after wiring up this retrofit (BRS 36in retrofit kit), the ballast was very finnicky in it's ability to stay on. You'd have to jostle the cord in the timer's outlet in order to find the right place where the lights would finally come on. If you happened to adjust this exact placement, everything goes off. I tried to rewire everything to see if there was a short somewhere, but no luck. Could this just be a bad ballast, or my ineptitude in wiring this thing?
Thanks.