Possible blown light? Help requested

I just got my can fan and filter and was hooking that up.
I did some room cleaning and got everything fired up.
I turned my light back on to resume it's light cycle.

However, when I unplugged my fan which is sharing the same circuit, it tripped my gfci breaker. I reset the breaker and plugged back in my light (it had only been running like 10 minutes), it won't come back on. Usually when I plug in my light or when my light starts up, it makes kind of a low "clunk" sound and then does it light buzzing sound. This time though, I didn't hear any sound, but the light just kind of glows a really dim blue.

Right now I plan on resting it for an hour and trying it again.

In the mean time, I thought I would post this to get some ideas on what happened and what I did wrong. My circuit is only running at about 8 amps right now. I'm not sure why unplugging the exhaust fan would cause my breaker to trip. I was playing with the fan the other day and plugged and unplugged it and nothing like this happened.

The only other thing I did today with the light was take the cool tube down to clean it, but that was just a very small tad of windex which was allowed to dry, and then sprayed with the air hose.

Any ideas? I'm really freaking out right now about this.
Thanks

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that happened to me while i was testing my light and timer before my current grow......i thought i blew the light but it started working an hour or so later......idk why it happened though man

Should I leave it plugged in? Right now I have it unplugged and plan on hooking it back up in an hour. Right now I'm just googling some things and trying to learn about the lights and their ignitor arcs. So far no info yet on what to do. knowing that you went through same thing is assuring. I thought today was going to be a mile stone in my growing. I got my exhaust fan scrubbing and cleaning. And finally got my PH meter. As expected my Ph was way high so today was my first day feeding wtih correct PH. I was so happy til this happened. Well, I'm keeping positive.
Thanks gor the reply.

it should turn back on when you plug it back in....yes leave it unplugged for an hour and make sure if you are plugging it into a power strip or timer that what you are plugging it into is off.....i think thats what i did....i was in a hurry to get to work but i was trying to finish m setup and i unplugged it while the power strip was on

Thanks again bro especially good timing.
Can I get a second opinion or confirmation?

I had mad problems getting one of my 1ks to turn on at a cerain house. I think it may have something to do with the current being off or something. Dont know tho.

that ballast hasnt done that since. Normally if i turn off my light i wait at least five minutesbefore i turn it back on. I found when i first started growing that sometimes if you unplug and plug right back in the ballst will buzz and light very dim and maybe click on after two minutes. So i just leave it unplugged for like three to five mins.

also, your using MH right?

Is you ballast switchable?

If it is glowing dim then it is probably not a burned out ballast.

It could be the igniter burned out also.

As long as your magnetic then you can replace components if they act up.

I had a HPS/MH switchabel melt wires inside and burn out. I could have fixed it but i wasnt sure what made the wires melt, and i m not an electrician so i just trashed it.

More than likely i would say it will either start working with some rest, or the igniter is blown.

i popped an envirolite a couple of weeks ago simply by adding a fan to the socket strip i had my lights on , i plugged the fan into the socket strip and ;ping ' the bulb blew , no idea why but it sucks .

It's a 400 W MH standard inductor ballast from HTG Supply. It's the agro star one. Like I aid the breaker tripped, and the light shut off normally. It's just when I reset the breaker and plugged it back in that it's not starting normally. It's jsut glowing. I'm still really puzzled on how I tripped the breaker though. I think gfci have false trips sometimes. UGGH =) It's been about an hour. I'm going to go back down and give it another shot. i have a warranty on the light and ballast, so I'm not going to sweat repairing it.

ok guys. Situation is good now. It started back up. Thanks for the input. Was a heart attack in the works there. Man I was freaking out. All is good now!

flamdrags420 said:

ok guys. Situation is good now. It started back up. Thanks for the input. Was a heart attack in the works there. Man I was freaking out. All is good now!

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i got pissed when that happened to me too man i thought i was going to have to go spend more money and i was broke from buying all the shit

ya I wasn't too pissed. just more scared. But ya I feel ya as far as the cash goes. I'm over budget on my room, and I'm out of work right now. So i'm living off savings, which is hard to do when you have 3-4K going out to a grow room.