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Forgot to mention I'm in Ireland, so yeah it's a European plug. The wattage is 250, the wires aren't that small i think it's just the picture, here's some more pictures that might be a better description (sorry about the darkness of the first one, it's of the plug connection). I don't really get what you mean by plugging it into the ballast, there's no plug socket in the ballast, if that was the case then the ballast would have to generate electricity itself and I can't see how that would work?? That picture is of the whole ballast, maybe you can get a better idea of the set-up from it? It's like a 3 way system with the plug going into a socket in the wall, the other end of the plug connection going into the ballast by means of the small wires coming out of the other end of the connection, and then the separate white connection links the ballast to the light, again by means of the smaller wires, in which one end connects to the ballast and the other to the light... but there is no smaller wires on one end of the white connection.... meaning I can't connect it to the ballast! See what I mean??