Wa2ise and RODALCO were correct... I looked at the mess lastnight... I did not find anything wrong with the ballast, it looks pristine.. I did notice the neutral wire burned off the back of the photoeye receptacle so it had to have been the "return path" for the fault... The receptacle even though incinerated to a crisp, it was "intact" to where nothing shorted out in the receptacle between terminals, so the problem must have been a defective photoeye... Thats what I am guessing anyway..

A.D

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