Ah, it's time well spent learning, Gluteus. And as I am under no pressure to make some superyield at the moment, I'll continue learning from this grow.

Thanks for the help, though, Gluteus! Always appreciated.

My one other question. I purchased a Bake-A-Round cooltube for my 400W HPS bulb. I have a SunSystem 400W HPS Ballast. The ballast connects to the reflector. At the reflector end, there is a box that the black wire runs into and then theres the bulb. I took everything apart today to see how it works and the box that's attached to the ballast is just an easy circuit box. (I've included a pic of it)

With that, that will not fit into a cooltube. I'm wondering what I need from HomeDepot in order to make it work. I don't have to take this apart as I have another ballast I can use the wire assembly with. But I need a link to or a list of parts I will need from Home Depot including a socket assembly (the socket the bulb screws into) in order to make it work in cooltube fashion.

There was once a GREAT link on this on OG but... well... yeah

I've also seen some links on here but they haven't shown what I need to know in detail or they look somewhat flimsy.

Any help on this or a point in the right direction would be of help.