Help connecting a 70W Metal Halide Flood Light

Does anyone know how to wire a 70W Metal Halide Flood Light? Say I was going to use it normally, outside, would I just wire it into a circuit, what if I wanted to wire it to be used on a normal outlet? If I didnt need a ballast for it to be outside, would I need one inside?

There is a black wire, a white wire, and a green wire coming from the light. I know, positive, negative, and ground, but can I connect this to a standard outlet somehow? I want to use this light in my growroom as supplemental.

take a extension cord. cut it to about 5 ft. strip back the black white and green wires, get some electrical nuts, match up the black white and green wires, twist them in with the electrical nuts take some electrical tape and wrap it really good. make sure no bare wires are touching and you're good to go. should take about 5-10 minutes in total the ballast is enclosed in the box it's in.

Wordz said:

take a extension cord. cut it to about 5 ft. strip back the black white and green wires, get some electrical nuts, match up the black white and green wires, twist them in with the electrical nuts take some electrical tape and wrap it really good. make sure no bare wires are touching and you're good to go. should take about 5-10 minutes in total the ballast is enclosed in the box it's in.

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Wow are you absolutely sure?

Thats what I thought too, but didn't want to F up the circuit or light, but thanks, that's what I was hoping to do, I have an industrial cord thats already stripped from an old air conditioner or fridge I think, and it has the grounded plug. Thanks again, It will really help!

I know this was a wihle ago, but did this work? I just bought a similar light, two of them actually. I wired it straight to a receptacle to use on a switch but can't figure out how to put both of them on the same switch. So now I need to figure out how to wire plugs to them to be used in outlets.

do same jus use a double curcuit breaker

How would that help...