Help----Going from 1 to 2 ?????

[krp]

A buddy of mine just bought pc lighting for his 55gal. Anyway, it only has one plug. Is there a way to wire the 2 10000k and the 2 actinics seperately in order to use a timer for each? Thanks for any help.

 

[reefnut]

You can if you know what you're doing. I wouldn't advise it unless you can get someone that works with electricity... just to be safe but it's not all that difficult.

 

[dogstar]

If you open it up and it has two seperate ballest then you can seperate them at their suplly wires ( black and white ) and use a new cord on one ballest and the original cord on the other.

 

[krp]

Thanks for the advice. I opened up the light and it did have two seperate ballest. I run the wires and seperated the ballest. I did a little soldering and got one ballest wired to the plug that came with the light and it worked allright. Now I just have to pick up another cord to wire the other ballest up to and cut a notch for the cord and should be good to go. Pretty simple even for a rookie like me