Can someone help? Remote floru ballast issues

[Smokecraft]

I bought a shop light and removed the sockets, then I extended them with wire. I left the ballast inside the fixture as I plan on that being my electrical box for my cabinet, and because the ballast grounds to it. But after I got everything wired back together, I plugged in the light and this was the result:

One bulb lit up but operating at maybe 25-50%, and it was flickering. The other had a very faint orange glow at one end and that was it. I switched the bulbs into the shoplight over my workbench and they work fine, so it's not the bulbs. I followed the wiring diagram on the back:

I've tried a few different things, nothing has worked yet.anyone know what's going on with my lights?

 

[LEDfoot]

Read the note under the wiring diagram, after "AND".

 

[Smokecraft]

Thanks for pointing that out. For anyone wondering what to do to solve this problem, I had a couple scraps of aluminum flat stock laying around so I drilled a hole in the end of a couple of them, put some wire through and wrapped the other end of the wire around the ground screw. I then placed the aluminum flat stock piece behind the tube. They fire up just fine now and it wasa simple and cheap fix.

Edit: This is not the finished version, this is just using wire that was within arms reach. I'm out of 16g wire, I'll be running to get more later.

 

[theclosetfarmer]

FYI you can buy the ballasts & sockets separately for less money. In addition you can buy a digital ballast that doesn't need to be close the the light.