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If it is inside the windings you may not see it right away, and the ballast is bad. If it smoked up then you should be able to find it, feel around and look for smut on your fingers.

Agree. Sounds like power cord problems, and since that is the simple fix go with that. Unplug ballast and take it down. Take the cover off, and look at the cord coming into it. Smoke equals heat and heat is caused by resistance, resistance can be caused by carbon buildup from loose/broken/bad...

Agree Glau, I was actually thinking about a clamp-on. You still gotta take the cover off the panel to clamp around the hot tho, and you would want the circuit loaded with all the stuff operating. Not a big deal really, if somebody is ok with it and maybe has a little experience. You can't see...

If you are running with no problems, run it. Don't borrow trouble bro. Most modern appliances have an amp draw on them somewhere, and if you use the ohms law rules posted in this thread you can figure amps from a watt rating. I don't know what your stuff draws for sure, you are the one who has...

Nope. Amps is what it can draw, you might have a 30amp circuit in your car at 12 volts. Dryer is prob a 30amp circuit. Look on the breaker that feeds it. Keep in mind that 220 volts at 30 amps is more watts. Go back to the ohms law post on this thread and do the math yourself. This is one reason...

Just slapping a larger breaker on existing wire.... yeah don't do that. You might end up with local firemen gettin a contact buzz as they extinguish your garden. You should be good on power as greenlikemonkey says.

Do you have any breaker spaces in your panel that are free? Oh I am an electrician. 20 yrs in the trade bro. Would advise against adding a larger breaker on existing wire. How comfortable would you be working in a live panel? Can you even get to the panel? Is you water heater electric and...