grounding a ballast

[tonkadawg]

I need to figure out how to ground my workhorse 7 ballast in hopes that doing so will resolve another problem I am having. I was looking at the ballast and the only wires it has for power are black and white - no green. So without the green wire, how do I ground this thing?

I looked on Fulhams site, but didn't see anything that would help.

 

[1234]

There is no way to ground the ballast itself. I have 4 of them and have no problems.

 

[tonkadawg]

That's not good. When the ballast kicks on, it causes interferance between my ACII and temp probe.

Guess I need to find a better ballast then. Any recomendations?

 

[Paul B]

Is the ballast case metal? If it is, just connect a wire to it with a screw and ground it through either a three prong plug or with a wire directly to the metal in your electrical box or a water pipe.
You can ground anything if it's metal.
Paul

 

[tonkadawg]

Good idea Paul, but I am not sure if the case is metal or aluminum or what. Guess I can give it a try and see what happens...

Actually thinking back to last night when I was trying to ground it, I did see printed on the case that the ballast must be grounded. So if there is no ground wire, I need to do it as you described by attaching the ground wire to the case.

 

[landragon]

Aluminum is metal ok. All workhorse ballasts can be grounded by screwing down a ground wire to the case when you mount it.

 

[tonkadawg]

cool thanks for the clarification - I will do that tonight.