It was driving me nut thinking about what's inside the box so I grabbed the screwdriver and opened that sucker up.

http://i945.photobucket.com/albums/a...r/IMG_1936.jpg

http://i945.photobucket.com/albums/a...r/IMG_1933.jpg

It turns out StirCrazy was right, it is a pulse start ballast (Huaquan) with capacitor (Electronicon) and M80 starter (Arrancador). I went online and dug up the specs on this ballast and voila, there it was. The Apex was right according to this chart.

http://i945.photobucket.com/albums/a...11124313PM.jpg