T5 Ballasts Questions & Possible Issues

JOSEPHLB

New member
I got the Sunlight Supply kit from Reefgeek.

Does it matter which "red" wire goes to what red socket on the ballast; "blue" wire to blue socket, "yellow" to yellow socket???

I got in a hurry, and unhooked the wiriing from the ballasts. I used 1/2" wire loom and zip ties to lay out the wire. I may have made a boo-boo though

Once I installed my end-caps, ran all the wiring in the wire loom and tied it down, I didn't label each wire, so I could tell each one apart; like which blue wire was on what side of the end-cap, etc..

I randomly placed them in the ballasts and the lights light up.
My question is, are the ballasts designed to work intelligently? such as, each one of the "blue" wires can be placed in either of the "blue" sockets? Red, same.. and the yellow wires?

I really hope I didn't fubar this and have to dismantle the whole thing so I can tell apart each individual blue, red and yellow wire from the other..
 
Did you ever find out an answer to your Q? I did the same thing as you and recalled reading your post a while back.
 
Nope.. no answer as of yet :)

I posted on another forum also. It was explained to me that all it is a "series loop" and it doesn't matter.. as long as the blue wires are where they are supposed to be.. red & yellow also where they are supposed to be.
 
The lamps do not have polarity at the endcaps. You can switch the wires within the endcaps but not among different endcaps. I actually wired mine so that the two wires going into each endcap are the same color.
 
Back
Top