I bought a couple of reflectors from an aquarium supply place, pictured below, they come with mogul sockets attached already. $65 for 2 of em including shipping...good deal I thought. Going to use them with high wattage compact fluorescent for vegging. Anyway, they are not wired with cords and I was thinking of wiring them to a couple cut 3-prong extension cords or possibly using a 3-prong plug and connector from home depot, also pictured below. Which way would be easier?? And what wire do I use if if choose the plug? Plus I don't know what the wires are coming out of the socket..blue, white, and yellow w/ green stripe. The blue and white wires have coatings that seem to be cloth like, and the yellow is rubber or plastic. Any help would be appreciated.

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First off.
Blue is the hot wire, normally black in the USA.
White is the neutral, Normally white in the USA
Yellow is ground, normally green in the USA.
Wire to use? You can use an extension cord and cut of the female end then you just have to wire the 3 wires to the socket, make sure and get a grounded corded, one with 3 prongs.
Next, I'm not sure if there is a flourescent bulb made to fit a mogul socket.
Always plug into a GFCI protected outlet and if there's anything wrong with the setup, it will trip the GFI and save your ass.

HTH

pp69

As long as the colors for other countries is correct above then your good just get a 2 dollar 10 foot orange extension cord cut the female end off zan use the 3 wires. As far as the mogul socket not a big deal you just have to buy a mogul to standard insert its a littl screw in socket reducer .It has male moguls so it screws righ it but has female standard threads to screw standard cfls into it.

Thanks guys, that helps a lot. Just a note on the sockets...most high wattage cfl's, 100w-200w, use a mogul base.

Ok, so I bought a couple extension cords, but I don't know which wire is hot and which is neutral. The ground is marked, so i could figure it out if I knew which place on a wall socket is which. In the diagram below, which represent hot and which represents neutral, A and X?

this diagram I mean. lol

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"A" is hot. The narrow prong is hot. On the wall outlet, the narrow slot is hot.


pp69

works beautifully, thanks