175 watt halide wiring

[scuglass]

just picked up a 2x 175 watt halide set up 2x m57 ballast.

there are 6 wires comming from the ballast box green, red, orange black white and yellow

what goes to what??? lol dont know what i have gotten myself into

ne diagrams pics or help would be appreciated i cant tell from teh diagram on the ballast.??

[Delphinus]

There has got to be something more than just different colours. Is there any kind of labelling on the wiring? Any kind of diagram/schematic on the ballast itself?

For M57 there should be
- 2 common wires
- 1 wire that goes to the capacitor
- depending on the number of taps, 1 wire for 110v, 1 for 220, 370, etc. .. Typically ballasts are "tri tap" meaning three taps so it sounds like that's what you have here.

You are only interested in the tap wire for 110. The other taps should be capped off and coiled up off to the side, we don't need them (it depends on what kind of power source you have, if you were wiring it off 220 for example you'd be using that one instead). The 110 tap wire is 1 of the wires that goes to the wall plug, and one of the common wires is the other wire that goes to the wall plug. The 110 wire should be hooked up to the hot terminal, and the common wire to the neutral terminal (the neutral terminal is the wider terminal slot the wall outlet plug).

Then you take the wire to the cap and wire it to one of the terminals on the capacitor. The other terminal of the cap goes to one of the wires on the lamp socket (doesn't really matter which wire on the socket -- although if you have problems with the light starting you can always try switching these). The,. the other wire on the socket goes to the other common that we didn't use.

Ground the socket, the ballast, the enclosure for the ballast (if you have one), reflector, etc. etc. -- that all goes to the grounding terminal on the wall plug.

It may sound tricky but it's not, once you see it fit together. If you have any further problems, give me a call I can come over and take a look at things if you need.

[scuglass]

ok i think im sort of understanding it now. the 2 ballasts were already wireed to gether and to a cap and wvwrything when i got them this is what it does.

there are 277v 244v 208v(all 3 capped) and a 120v.

the 2 120v are then put together with 2 black cords. one of the black cords runs to a switch and then from the swithc to the plug(hot) and the other runs up to the lights.

then there is a ground going from the socket, bolted to the ballast box and then up to the light fixture. i then screw this down to the fixture?

then the third wire going coming from the plug in is the common i believe. this wire is then connected to two other wires. they both say com then there is two wires that come out of the ballasts that say com and then go together and then run up to the lights.

so these are the wires i have running up to the light.

yellow--- from one cap
red--- from another cap
green--- ground
white---com
black---????????????

so i attach a yellow to one of the inputs and a the white to the other
then do i split the white send it to the other one with tthe red.
grounbd it by just screwing it to the cannopy reflector.

and the black???

[scuglass]

also where do i add the fan in on this diagram?

[scuglass]

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[KrazyKuch]

Is that the diagram of the ballast you are trying to wire up??

[Delphinus]

You've lost me -- that's a picture of a fluorescent ballast not a halide ballast?

As for the fan, if you're trying to wire the fan off the same switch as the lighting so that it turns on and off with the lights -- then what I'd do is leave the fan off the wiring for the ballast, and use a power strip on a timer: Plug the ballast(s) and fan(s) into the power strip (each using their own plug). It's sometimes better to have individual plugs for each thing because if you ever need to swap one out then you don't need to worry about unplugging the unaffected things.

[muck]

That ballast will not run MHs.
Its designed for your standard NO T12 fluorescent bulbs.

[Invigor]

Originally Posted by scuglass

also where do i add the fan in on this diagram?

you don't

[scuglass]

yes i know that is a florecent diagram that is for the no atinics so i cant plug the fan into the atinics?

here id the ba;llast for the halides
http://www.venturelighting.com/VLPS/...H/V90D6111.pdf

soryy for hte confusion