Happy funday everyone. The light controller had an outlet short, it took out itself and the other outlet attached to it. My controller was given to me by NCH, so it is not new, but no moving parts. The sunlight air cooled de hood uses an adaptor cable between ballast and the hood. I checked everything that could be in the circuit. When I took the cable and put a meter on it and flexed the cable, it was all over the place. I replaced the cable. I needed to replace the outlet. The controller is 240v. So I go to home depot to get a 240v outlet. Guess what, wrong outlet. The plug configuration is completely different. After considerable discussions with home depot and a local hardware store, regardless of what voltage the controller is using, the outlets are 125v/20A. This is based on both the plug configuration and the rating of the outlet printed on the back of the outlet...what a pain. Still wasn't sure if this was correct, so I used an exact replacement. Plugged everything in and it works. No fires or melted wires. Seemed so counter intuitive, lol.