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Question for my fellow growers, I have plans to set up a new room/rooms, my plans got moved ahead of schedule to take advantage of extra vegged plants (60) that were ready for flip. So we moved ahead and setup 1 side of a flip flop. Invested in 8 ultragrow 1000w switchable ballasts, and lightspeed flip box. And got 1 side going. With plans to have the second side ready when other veg plants are ready to moved over in about a month. Everything has been working great, but ballast started to stop working, I have had to replace all the ballasts so far and even the new ones are now dying. I have had 2 electricians take a look at my system and they can not find anything abnormal that would cause this. I have swapped lights with working and non working ballasts, tried new bulbs, bypassed the flip box. And nothing. The ballasts are in a cooled room, the only thing i can think of is because the ballasts are always on, and for a 12hr period there is no light plugged into the flip box. It is causing the ballast to stop working. I even had an electrician open the ballast up and he can't find a smoking gun, everything looks like it should it just won't power up any light, not even a MH bulb. Any input or experience simalar would be a great help. Mean while I have 60 plants 18 days in to flower with less then 1/3 the light they should have. Now that is what I call controlled stress growing into uncontrollable stress.