175 watt halide wiring

[Delphinus]

Originally Posted by scuglass

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

Sure you can. Plug the actinics into a power bar, plug the fan into the same power bar. Done and done!

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

Ok so according the diagram, it should go something like this:
277 black, 240 tan, 208 purple -- capped (unused)
120 orange and white common -- to wall plug (orange to hot, white to neutral)
black/white -- to capacitor
"red" (or more likely your own supplied wire) -- capacitor to socket
(other) white common (or connected to white common) -- to other terminal on socket

If you need a hand PM me and I can come over sometime.

[scuglass]

ok so i understand all that u are saying but i dont know if it was wired properly when i bought it. hereis a drawing hopefully u can understand it.

from how it is wired right now there are 2 commons from each ballast. 2 of thes(one from each runs up to the lights(which is correct.) and one leads to the plug(correct). then from the 120v one goes up to the lights (INCORECT??) and one to the plug(correct.)

so there are 2 wires one from each cap going up to the lights (one to each socket) and then 1 common (correct) a ground(correct) and a hot(incorrect????)

heres a pic(sorry its confusing)

[Delphinus]

Ok I see what you mean. Unfortunately I don't know if that will work or not. It might, for all I know. But I'm no electrician, so for all I know there's an equal likelihood you'll explode your bulbs. I have no idea.

If you trust whoever wired it up like that, then go for it. But if it were me, then I would switch that around. Basically make both ballasts the same (and match the diagram on the ballast schematics). There's no reason you can't tie both 120V wires to that switch, so you can still have the lights turn off and on at the same times, which is what I presume what you're after here.

At the very least, it seems to me as if running the ballasts in a sort-of series like this makes them dependent on each other. I.e., if one lamp doesn't fire then neither will the other. To me, that's a disadvantage: I'd rather be able to fire one lamp if I needed to, while I went about replacing the other lamp in the event something happened to the one of them, and so on. But that's just me...

[scuglass]

ok im gonna rewire the whole thing then. here is what i plan to do for the halides. will this work?

[Delphinus]

Looks good. Let me know how it turns out..

[scuglass]

oh yeah and i forgot about the fan. this fan doesnt have a plug on it only 2 wires coming from it blcak and white. how do i integrate this into the flourecents

[Delphinus]

You need to put a plug on it. Or you can wire it into the black and white wires of the ballast.

[KrazyKuch]

First off are you sure that fan is a 120V fan not a 12V fan!!!

[Delphinus]

Good point. If it's a 12V fan, you would plug the 12V transformer into the power strip, or the black and white power supply wires of the ballast.

Another thing to watch out for is whether it's 12VDC or 12VAC.. make sure you have the right transformer.

[scuglass]

umm all it says on it is v115.

and i wired everything else but the fan and it works