So, what did I do today...find a couple of extremely rare HID lamps! 

Awesome, are they ones you haven't found yet?

Yep!

Getting things up and running over here in terms of HID as well... for the first time ever in almost 10 years, I finally cleaned the glass lens
of two of my 20w CMH track lights. I've had those Powerball Sylvania 20w CMH lamps in them since about 4 years ago I think, and the glass lens
were so dirty that it didn't show how bright those lamps are. At all. Now I see... those CMH track lights are insanely bright.
From now on, I'll be regularly cleaning those glass lens... that was about 10 years of dust that I just cleaned off. Suzukir122 is an idiot.

Built a ballast box for my SOX 90w. There's a BSX90 and associated ignitor in there.
The box is generously sized because my previous HPL-N 50w ballast box was so small that i could barely get my hands in there to mount a strain relief etc. It is also large enough to mount some sort of cradle for the lamp on top.

I had a little fuckup - i designed the box for 6mm MDF, but for some reason the local hardware store doesn't sell that anymore so i used 9mm. Only after cutting i realized i didn't modify the cutting files...
It still fits together and is sturdy enough, just not as nice as the one i made for the 50w ballast for the clear MV lamp.

Jerry rigged a setup for my Sylvania F14T12 tube. It works, but the 15w ballast significantly underruns the tube. The specs are - as far as i can tell - 390 to 420mA. It's running on 320mA (rms) on this ballast, which i think may be problematic in the long run.

Perhaps a 20w ballast will do the job at 370mA - close enough. Got multiple 20w fixtures sitting around that i can steal a ballast from, but i kinda use all of them...

The workbench is of course in its perpetual state of chaos, today lit by a SON 50w and a color 530 (29) tube overhead if i'm actually doing the work.