Oh my goodness, today, i did an expirement outside, putting my 400w MH in a socket that had NO ballast. it exploded!
I got a picture of the explosion. when i did this everything was set up very safe, so when i got the pic it did no harm to me.
![](https://www.lighting-gallery.net/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.disasterous.org%2Fexplosion.jpg&hash=295e1c3fb970110b17946ab171db8b67413dfd44)
I might have to buy a new lamp...