I need a electrition please

Ok so i bought this ballast today and when I hooked it up, it ran then blew the breaker. I flipped the switch and it came on for like 1 min and blew again. All thats plugged in to that standard 110 outlet is the light, AC, and exhaust fan. All on surge protector. Light runs good when AC unplugged but thats no good for me. But the wires and the surge protector and even my timer were hot. Is this ballast related or just pullin too much power? I have my guess but wanna be sure. Its a switchable 1000w sunsystem. 04 model. Any help on how to setup my room now that Im out of my comfort zone is greatly appreciated.

Thanks for the reply on my thread. As far as your Q. Does it tell on the light how many amps it pulls? And how many amps does your A/C pull? On the A/C it should say starting amps and running amps. The reason I ask is because the typical household breaker is designed to trip on a 15 amp load. I would think that A/C is pulling 6 or 7 amps so thats half load even without the light. Not only that but resistance plays a part too. The Surge Protector you are plugged into maybe causing the extra resistance needed to heat the breaker causing it to trip. I have never owed an HPS but I would imagine if that 1000W lamp has that big of a ballast that it must be pulling some amps.

It says 9.5, so thats my prob? AC says 9

Most definitely! You need to run the A/C and light off of different circuits. Meaning on different breakers. Maybe you could get a good extension cord and run it into another room and plug it in. Although changing the breaker to a 20A would keep it from tripping. Your wiring is rated for 15A so you could burn your house down. And the house burning could hurt the trees so be careful lolol

sounds like circuit overloading. try a dif plug in the room, might be on a dif circuit. 220 would allow you to run more things on a circuit because they run on lower amps. but heres your electrician, ask him he knows for sure.

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Was it a new ballast or secondhand?

used ballasr.

StonedBlownSkiller said:

It says 9.5, so thats my prob? AC says 9

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That's your problem. Most home circuit breaker are 15 amp. You are trying to pull 18.5. Good thing for circuit breakers cause you would cause a fire without it.

ACs, 1000w light, electric fans/motors and refridgerators all pull a lot of amps.

thanks, also Im moving in a week and will be basement growing. Can I install a 30 amp breaker at the box and run my own electric for my room?

With Hid lamps it might run at just over 9 amps but there is a 1.8 correction factor to due to the high starting load so that takes you over the 15amp, change the circuit breaker to at least 20amps. and all should be fine.

StonedBlownSkiller said:

thanks, also Im moving in a week and will be basement growing. Can I install a 30 amp breaker at the box and run my own electric for my room?

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NO. That's like people that put larger fuses in their cars cause the fuse keeps blowing. You have a 15 amp breaker because the wires are not intended to pass more than 15 amps. Let's say you double the breaker value, in essence removing the breaker, you put 20 amps on your line and one night while you are sleeping and don't smell the smoke from the insulation melting off those hot wires. And then the fire... If you need more than 15 amps, route another 15 amp circuit into there and now you have two independent circuits that can handle 15 amps each for a total of 30 amps.

DawgMountain said:

NO. That's like people that put larger fuses in their cars cause the fuse keeps blowing. You have a 15 amp breaker because the wires are not intended to pass more than 15 amps. Let's say you double the breaker value, in essence removing the breaker, you put 20 amps on your line and one night while you are sleeping and don't smell the smoke from the insulation melting off those hot wires. And then the fire... If you need more than 15 amps, route another 15 amp circuit into there and now you have two independent circuits that can handle 15 amps each for a total of 30 amps.

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thanks thats what Im doing.