need help with an emergency ballast!!!?

Question

I need some on with experience on replacing an emergency ballast. They are not the same as an ordinary ballast they have a battery within it and it needs to charge. But here is the problem that i posted on an earlier question......
I hooked up an emergency ballast and I think that I fried it. I hooked up the red and white connector on the one side and then hooked up the two brown to one another on the other side and it sparked. I did read the table on that part, but it stated it needed to be closed. Does that mean that it needs not to be hooked together? Is there any way to repair the one I just fried?
I did replace it. On these types of ballasts, they have two plastic connectors on each end, they are supposed to be connected, or at least the red and white on one side must or it doesn't work at all. I have replaced them before and hooked both sides up. But this time I hooked up the red and white together like I am supposed to, but then hooked the two brown cnnctrs that are made to.....

they sparked and the ballast only works when there is no power to it. I unhooked the tow brown and it still doesn't work right.


No for real this ballast in not an ordinary ballast. It has two wires on each end that are supposed to go together. They have special plastic connectors that fit together. Both of the ones I have taken apart have them connected and so I connected them both back up. The first one I did has worked just fine and now this one is not working right

Answer 1

It may be a short in the brown wires. If you have done this correctly before and this particular unit isn't working right, my guess is that there is a short (i.e., the brown wires are touching before they get to where they are going). My guess is that the spark was due to that being the case. Check the brown wires, often when they are moved around a lot they can loosen from their connections or even come unsoldered altogether, shorting out on the housing.