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Grow room design, HID, fluoro, reflectors, ventilation, ballasts and wiring.
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any chance you took a picture of what you found inside?

interested in seeing the part you got to work with over there and them precisely what burned. my guess is that it heated up enough to melt the insulation in the wiring right were it connects to the outlet intself
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No there was nothing to see really. I think the box being mounted outside of the drywall may have spared it, but I do have a leak in the foundation there so I may open up the drywall and take a look in the coming weeks.

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Never a dull moment. I was sitting at my computer and the lights dimmed, twice, so I went into the grow room and the lights were unexpectedly off but the fuse had not blown. Noises were coming from my magnetic ballast so it was unplugged. My heavy duty industrial timer had to be reprogrammed. It is plugged into the same outlet that was recently replaced.Plans are in motion to further reduce the load.

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Thorn Precinct with the loudest ballast ever - YouTube

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I was using this same ballast back in 2000. I was living in a 3 story walk up in Vancouver. It was a small apartment building with no elevator. 10 apartments on each floor, but if you held your ear to the wall in any of those apartments you could hear this ballast hum

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