Ballast question important!!!!!

[Chicken_Eye]

Hey guys I was just working in my kitchen and then all of a sudden the lights flickered and I looked in the living room and my tank and noticed the lights were out. I checked the timer and it still has power. So I turned the lights back on manually and only one comes on. Wile the one was on I could hear this humming sound comeing out of the other ballast Could I have blown my ballast or would my bulb have blown. My lights are less than a yr old and I am running 2 250 mh with icecap ballast. 1400k hamilton bulbs I installed everything in febuary of this yr

[Chicken_Eye]

Well I dont know what the problem was but the light came back on. I let them cool down for about 30 min and turned them back on and they both came on. I am guessing that somebody must have hit a power pole or something because my wife said that they lost power at work which would have been about the same time my lights flickered.

So I guess thank God I dont have to replace anything.

[JeffCo]

No problem with the ballast, the humming noise is the ballast trying to come on again. Best thing is to turn them off for about 5 minutes, then it should fire right back up again.

[Chicken_Eye]

Yeah I kinda freaked out thanks for the help though I thought something knocked out my ballast.