First thing you need a open breaker slot..preferably two spots on the same side of the breaker isles.Take the panel off of the front with a regular screw driver.See what brand of panel it is so we can go to mennards or lowes and get a breaker.Lets just use a 30 amp breaker double in 220 volts if you can get it.Get half inch..i think they call them 3/8 size romex connecters.purchase a fifty ft roll of i think its ten AWG.gauge three conductor wire..a black..a white and a bare copper wire in it.Check at lowes they will tell you what wire will hold 30 amps.
Take the front of the panel off..knock a pre punched knock out hole in the side of the power box.Remove knock out slug and throw away..feed wire through romex connecter with plenty of wire through it..after you put the romex connecter in the hole you just knocked out and tightened up.When you get enough wire..plenty to reach your breaker and your ground bar.You will see it . it is normally a alum bar that a bunch of BARE ground wires are connected to.sometimes white ones also.
Tighten the lug that holds the wire down onto the wire coming through the romex connecter holding the wire,clamping it in place..give a little tug to make sure everything is tight.
Pull the end of the wire out of the box so you can work with it easy and safe.
Strip back the plastic insulation over the wires all the way back to the side of the box as far as you can with a utility knife..then cut the plastic covering off and throw it away.this will leave three wires exposed.One black..one white and one bare copper wire.
You will take the bare copper wire and take it to the grounding bar..loosen if there isnt already a loose screw available ..should be..stick the bare copper wire under it and tighten the screw down tight on the wire.Cut the wire but leave a little extra..maybe 6 inch's of wire..the black and white wires.Just strip about 3/8 of a inch of the insulators off of the wire..exposing a nice tip of copper..leave the box WITH a box of romex staples.
Staple the romex over head neatly in a straight line or making right angle curves..make it look pro.If it looks pro it probably is..my opinion.
staple the romex over to a wall somplace where you want it..
Mount the timer on the wall and ..again the timer will have a knock out on the side of it..punch the knock out..out and install romex connecter.
Feed wire through and tighten in place.(hammer drills are sometimes handy in mounting to concrete)
Ok now feed wire over to ballasts wherever you have them located..i mount mine on the ceiling.
Install 4 outlet box central to ballasts ..pull wire through romex connecter just like before..and wire in outlets.
Go back to timer and follow instructions on the front of it..can take a picture of it and the schematic on the front and i could double check it right here.
Go back to breaker box..take breaker..put one wire under one screw of the double breaker...the white one..and tighten it down..then put the other wire,black.under the other screw of the breaker and tighten.
There will be a lip or a edge on most breakers..you will have a slot on the breaker that it sits in. normally on the back heel of most breakers..it put the back of the breaker onto this spot and push it forward onto the Bus bar..as it is called..this is where your power is..so dont touch it..hard to do actually unless you are trying.
You just push it firmly onto the bus bar.Some will snap into place nice and right.
On the breaker door take the knock outs out of it where the front of the breakers will protrude through it.
Any excess wire tuck neatly into the panel..re install the breaker panel door..
Done..no more cheap breaking timers.Nothing but heavy duty and will run 5 1000 watt ballasts.
at 240 volts.
Now for the ballasts.If you are running a digital..most of them will auto ajust for voltage.
If it is a magnetic some of them have a couple of slots depending on voltage ..it should be marked.Some of them you have to take the cover off and change a wire to a terminal marked 240 volts.
If you have 110 volt plug ins. The 240 volt plug ins are spendy.But nice..then sometimes you have to purchase a new cord.
If you use 110 volt outlets you can plug the 110 volt cord into the outlet..you just wire the black to one side of the 110 outlet the white to the other..one with silver finish on the screw..the other with golden.
You can plug right into it with 240..make sure all the bare wires are connected to every green colored screw along the way..connected one to the other all the way to every outlet.
When you wire the outlet this way..make sure you mark it this way..with a red marker or something..MAKE sure you dont get stoned and stupid and plug like a fan into it.
This is not much more difficult than plugging in a power cord normally.
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. My daughter is healthy, smart, and sweet(WHEN SHE WANTS TO BE). So now my 30's start! I still need to find a way to bring everything together and continue to build our life, but I suppose that comes with time. 
