ground wire for a retro fit lighting system?

[enemec1]

Where dose the ground wire for a retro fit lighting hood mount to?
I have a hamilton dual 175w MH and dual 40vho set up but I'm not sure where the ground wire is susposed to mount at.

 

[nathan1]

if your plug is three prong it goes to the lower one.
if it''s a 2 prong plug then just cut the ground off.
it will still work

 

[enemec1]

I have a 3 prong, what is the lower one?

 

[BruiseAndy]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6713593#post6713593 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by nathan1
if your plug is three prong it goes to the lower one.
if it''s a 2 prong plug then just cut the ground off.
it will still work

And as an added bonus with this solution you will put your hand in your tank one day and get a lovely shock. If you pretend the outlet is a face (two slits for eyes, one hole for mouth) put the ground wire in its mouth. :eek1: If you do have a two prong you should still find a grounded object in your house and run it to that (conduit or something).

 

[enemec1]

the mogul socket only has two wires the wire from the ballest has 3? one green where to hook it up at?

 

[nathan1]

the green goes to the third prong on the plug.
i never even hooked mine up.
if your using a power surge or gfci oulet it's not real important though.

 

[enemec1]

I think we are talking about the wrong wire end. The plug is hooked up I need to tie in the sockets? the unit can be pluged in and turned on but the lamp is not hooked up.

 

[nathan1]

you shouldn't have any thing but that green wire hook up to the third prong.
this grounds the ballast through the outlet.
like bruise said it's the mouth on the smiley face

 

[BruiseAndy]

Mount it to the reflector

 

[enemec1]

thank you bruiseandy