I doubt very much it was your timer, it is rated at 15amps and you are well below that.

The only thing I can suggest is to call HTG explain what happened, but I would tell them I am a rare orchid breeder and if you do not get a new ballast by tomarrow morning, you will stand to lose your crop or at least severly damage it. My gut feeling is they will do there best to help you. They do not need the negitive plublicity so it is in there best intrest to help you.

let us now how it turns out,

Also they give a one year warrentee on the ballast so I doubt they are trying to sell crap. With electronics occasionally stuff like this happens, so hopefully you unfortunatlly you got the one bad apple in the bushel. I have the same ballast bought around the same time.
Jerry Garcia 2007 Reviewed by Jerry Garcia 2007 on . My BRAND NEW hps light wont turn on!! So today when I got home I noticed My light wasnt on.. checked everything out.. the ballast runs but the bulb wont light.. I just bought this thing ilike 3 weeks ago.. Im pissed! everything was fine.. i made no modifications, just ran it like the directions told me.. i just dropped hundreds on this thing and it just shits the bed after less than a month of use.. :wtf::wtf::wtf: Im gonna go smoke:stoned: Rating: 5