MH mogel has three wires ballast only has too.

[Im Lon 2]

The ballast has a White and Black wire.

The mogul has white, black and green.

Black being hot?
White neutral?
Green Being Ground?

Correct?

I never hook up the Green wire but what does it go to? If it is a Ground shouldn't it go to white neutral?

 

[Boosted Rxp]

not going to matter, if you have a metal light rack ground it there

 

[Im Lon 2]

But if you were going to hook it up to a wire it would be the White Correct?

 

[cee]

Don't wire it to the white, wire it with a separate wire to the case of the ballast which should also be wired to ground through the 120 V plug. If you connect the white wire to the green terminal on the socket, you're going to energize the socket housing and potentially get shocked.

 

[Im Lon 2]

What happens if you wire it to the white?

 

[stlouisguy]

Does your green have a tab on it? If so I think you can ground it on the screw you use to attach it to your reflector

 

[Im Lon 2]

No a friend of mine called asking if the green should go with the black..

I said no green is ground and should go with the neutral wire which is white.

Before I had a chance to tell him I don't hook up my green wire. we got disconnected on the cell phone.. Got to love them..

When he called back he said his ballast started smoking? I don't see how.

 

[DrBDC]

I have sockets from PFO that had the quick disconnect on the end which I couldn't use unless I found a female version to plug up to. So I cut the end off and then took the green wire to the green wire on the input of the ballast. It all goes to the same bar in the service panel but it may make a difference in draw, etc otherwise you probably could attach it like you were saying. Plus it would allow more flow by being isolated.

 

[Im Lon 2]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8249300#post8249300 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by DrBDC
So I cut the end off and then took the green wire to the green wire on the input of the ballast.

Green to Green? See his don't have a green Neither do my PFO's?

 

[DrBDC]

His power supply doesn't have a ground? My supply had the ground even though the output didn't.

 

[Im Lon 2]

Sorry yes his has a ground plug going to the Ballast, but not the ballast to the bulb.

 

[DrBDC]

That's where I attached mine.

 

[Im Lon 2]

Im confused you hook your green wire to the green wire?

 

[DrBDC]

The green ground from the reflector/mogel wire, to the green ground wire on the plug in the wall wire.

 

[Im Lon 2]

I just noticed that I said that backwards.. I was in panic mode.

The Ballast to the bulb has a black, white, and green wire.

The mogel only has black and White.

I had it hooked up were the green and White from the ballast was attached only to the white wire on the mogel. And the two blacks attached to each other.

 

[StupidsReef]

Ok Lonnie thats right. Lost Marbles helped me hook up mine, beings there older and had to be wired. And this is what he told me to do too. That is white and green hooked together and black to black. You could hook the green to something thats already grounded, but you need to know what that is first.

You told him right. Here let me pat you on your back so you will calm down. Do you need me to hold your hand?? Rub your back and tell you it's ok?? NOT.

 

[momac]

I would not hook a green wire to a white wire. I understand why people have done it, but I think it is an improper shortcut. GFCI receptacles we all try to use will offer certain protections if everything is wire correctly. If not....