Just got a brand new light it's not working?

I bought the aquarium last week but the person told me the t8 tube didn't work and I would have to replace, so I did but it just won't light up



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Looking at the last photo it is my opinion that light is not safe to use. It will need to be re wired by a qualified electrician . It may be cheaper to buy a new light.

If you're handy with repair things, you can buy a "shop light" in a home improvement or hardware store, one that will fit inside the housing of this light. Then remove all the bits from the housing and fasten the shop light with a couple of screws. This will be much, much less expensive that getting the light repaired.

Get a new ballast

Judging by the corrosion and the black soot marks on wiring on that last picture, really is not worth using or tampering with, much safer to replace that part at very least and as NickAu says, can be dangerous if you don't know much about this sort of thing.

Either replace the entire light fitting or you could do as Byron says, remove all the gubbins from in the light unit and buy some cheap hardware light fitting that will fit inside that, not particularly difficult to find or to do, just get as close to the same sort of hardware as what is on the light unit already and replace like for like.

Just depends on how you feel about either method being easiest and fits your budget.

Quailified electronic engineer or electrican will not do the job for you for free (unless you know of a mate who might do it for you), likely to charge £50 per hour at least or they may simply refuse to do the job as not worth it.

the wiring hookup is on the ballast