So heres a good story,

yesterday dutch was feeding the plants and, click. the MH turns off So she unplugs it, allows a few min for the cooling cycle, then plugs it back in and it begins turning on. (poor story so far)

when she came home from work, light was off again. so i fiddled around with it, and nothing.

luckly i'm holding my buds 400W mh ballast, so i switched up the ballasts.
and still nothing (good, our ballast is fine)

so we assumed it was a burnt out bulb.
got a new bulb.

still nothing...

after this long process of elemination that left only the wiring between the ballast and the bulb.

took all that apart and found one of the wires had melted and caught fire.
somewhat concerning.

But we invested in all that saftey stuff and it all worked and no problems

any ideas how the wire could carry enough current to melt?

heres a pic