Nevermind, I got tricked. The darn thing was being retarded. Redid some wires here and there, rehooked it up and it fired. dumb pice of crap. well at least my corals have light:dance:

 

Are you sure it was the ballast that was being retarded?

 

I am never sure. After I had turned on my actinics, I turned on my left mh (AB 10,000K w/ pulse start ballast) I then turned on the right mh (XM 10,000 w/ m58). The right one just started to fire up, then out. So I am like, what the? I fiddle around with this for about a half hour. I test the XM on the pulse start ballast (yeah, I know perhaps not the best idea). It fired up like a charm. so then I am like "well then its the ballast". that is when I posted on this board. I tried the XM on the m58 ballast and there was light. so now I am not really sure what the culprit is.