I concur with Drock
I totally agree to be weary of the fire possibility. I had a bad connection in one of my ballasts and had I not been there to notice the smell of the plastics on the coupler melting. That could have been an ender.
Coralife are good about it, they will even give you order numbers on things like ballasts so that you can have your local pet store order it in for you or I am sure you can do it direct.
Mine was bought second hand and had no valid warranty so a friend and myself chose to dismantle mine and see if we could find it. Turns out that all that was wrong was at some point some one disconnected the couplers by bending like a chocolate bar rather than to pull it straight apart. and the ground socket inside where the connection ring was, did not have a full connection to where it wrapped around the prong. All the lost current ended up there overheating and causing it to melt a little bit. after we cleaned it out and bent the ring back into shape I had no problems, also seems as the resistance caused by it really was impeding more than I thought it was as the HQI now glows much brighter.
Might be something to check out on yours.
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