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Heard the same thing. Also wondering if you wired it up, or if it is a "store bought ready to go ballast"?
Hps actually is more efficient, producing more lumens for the amount of power consumed.
How are you handling your bulbs? May just be a bad bulb. Are you using an extension cord with your ballast? Or is is plugged straight into the wall?
Is is possible that the power may have failed for a split second where you live and the ballast did a hot start on your HPS bulb? (if you have no Idea what I am talking about with the last question, search out HOT START HPS on google)
If the last thing did happen (or maybe you shut it off for a sec and restarted the light),
You can get an "on delay relay" to prevent hot starts. I have an HLC-2 on delay relay, to prevent hotstarts (all the shops and online stores have them but I got mine at Discount-hydro.com)
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