Need help wiring my ballast

[northernkush]

I have an old ballast I want to use until I can afford a new one.

It is old and has wires all over the place.
The two wires connected to the plug for the wall has a ground wire thats just taped up. Is this safe? I can't afford to take any risks.

Also for the wires that go to the socket there is only a red and white one but my air cooled hood has a ground wire as well. what do I do in this case?

Please help

 

[moresntoil]

yeah, bond the ground wire to the fixture housing with a ground screw.
first look for the intended ground point and hook to it, usually a green screw.
the pic looks like it may have been taped to a ground wire, see if you can get more length on your ground wire by pulling the cord in and stripping back more insulation.
look on the metal frame for a threaded hole somewhere, you can drill and tap if a hole is not there anywhere.
or as a last resort you could loosen another screw on the unit somewhere and land your ground there.


also running another ground wire off of that same bonding point to the reflector you mentioned is a good idea, and what i would do.

It looks like your core-n-coil is not fastened to the ballast enclosure, so thats not bonded to ground either, might want to get some long (about 3") #8 screws and nuts and mount that in place. which will also bond it to ground. Thats If its not already fastened, and not that critical really. might be hard with the enclosure its in anyways.

check wiring diagram to see that is how its wired, connect your two lamp leads, white to threads of socket red to center of socket.
check all other connections for niceness, lamp it, close everything up, hold on to your balls and plug that bitch in!

 

[rives]

The wiring connections look pretty suspect to me - by any chance are the wires just twisted together and taped up? They should either have Sta-Kon ring terminals with the appropriate size hardware holding them together and then taped up, or wire nuts.