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I still have some fine tuning to do based on all of your recommendations. But as it stands, I was given the thumbs up by this electrician as to there being no major issues. After he fixed it of course. I know the setup isn't perfect but it's better than the extension cords run across the house...

So. When I put in my junction box, I didn't attach my red wire properly. We also replaced the outlets to accommodate the horizontal 240v plugs from the ballasts. All of which work great now. The ground didn't need to be run to the outlets boxes because the metal connecting all of them act as a...

Either way. Hopefully things will be worked out shortly. I'll keep you posted

That's why I think the green ones are 240. The sticker says 120 240 vac

I know they are old, but I think these are double pole breakers in the box connected together. The green ones are for the dryer outlet. Electrician will be here in 2.5 hours. I'm excited and nervous lol. I bought 240v outlets and 240v cords for the ballasts. Wish me luck.

I'm driving to the hydro store now but have a zoomed in potato quality pic of the diagram. Thanks for all the help too. You guys are awesome!

This is all great info. I'll be using every bit of advice I have been given. I'll keep everybody updated with the results. I have a picture of the back of the timer. Not a great one but here it is. I should have an electrician coming tomorrow as well. Hopefully we can get this looking proper.

So my multimeter tells me the 120v outlets are working correctly but the 240v outlets only have power in one prong. If that makes sense. Everything seems to be hooked up correctly so I'll but the 240v horizontal plugs and outlets today and see if that does the trick. Only difference I noticed...

I'm using 10/3 feed cables to my light controller. Basically just an extention cord for my clothes dryer. I have 2 30 amp breakers run together in my fuse box to make 240v at the dryer outlet. I'll replace the outlets on my light controller with the horizontal ones for 240v today. As well as...

I'll show this pic to my hydro store. I'm sure they will have what I need. Thanks for the help!

That's excellent news. It should be an easy fix to switch it around. I should test the plug to make sure they are actually putting out 240 before doing the change over

I have 5 600w ballasts and 1 1000w Most are fusionbright and digibrite. I set up a lighting control box from my 240v 30A dryer plug. My ballasts must not be able to automatically switch but they have advertised that both 120v and 240v can be used. My question is do I need to switch cords...