hps wiring

[geekgrower]

live goes to the live

nuteral goes to the nuteral

 

do I need to ground the earth to the reflector?

 

I havent made a reflector yet and im dying to test the globe.

 

Will I screw it if I power it up like this or should I ground it to a piece of metal?

 

thanks

geek

[Brainstorm]

Personally I would suggest that if you don't know how to wire electical goods that you leave it alone and get someone who does and preferably someone who is qualified to play with electricity. If you get it wrong you can do lots of damage to your house wiring or start a fire!!

[delay]

I'm not an electronic expert, but I do have basic electronic knowledge and I wouldnt suggest grounding the earth wire through the reflector at all, I'm pretty sure the bottom pin on all standard power connections is ground...? I would do as Brainstorm said and seek a profesional or things could go bad...

[nouseforaname]

hey,

If you are going to go ahead and do what your doing at least goto a electric distributor and ask for the skematics of the ballast. Its available online if you search for it. They are alot cheaper to buy this way but you need to find someone who can make a ballast box etc aswell. Good luck but id advise getting some sparky help if possible.

[geekgrower]

It's all done. I have a ballast and needed to wire the globe to the ballast. It wasnt a normal power connector.

 

The bottom pin on the connector is a round pin not like the other two. I'm guessing the earth goes no where. Cause on the socket for the bulb it has

 

A and N connectors. None for the Ground (earth)

 

I wired it up and its a beauty. Just designing the box now.

 

Going to be 17" square and about 36" high.

 

Need to test a carbon scrubber firstly. I want to remove as much as the smell as possible.

[nouseforaname]

hey,

The round point on the fixture is so you dont plug the light stright into a wall. Youll need to install the like female plug into your ballast. Otherwise you wont have any earth at all. Hope that helps