Need advice on wiring a tridonic ballast pc 2/55 TCL PRO

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I've used a multi meter to suss out the pins on the twin lamps
So,
with the lamps upturned, facing upwards and pins going from bottom to top
it shows that,
Pin 1 is live brown
Pin 2 is Blue Neutral
Pin 3 is Hot wire Black
Pin 4 is Earth

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[very important]

The Ballast manual says,
Hot Leads 9,10
and
Cold leads 11,12,13,14
should be separated as much as possible

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The ballast manual says,

SK I Luminaires: earth of ballast housing required
SK II Luminaires: no earth required
Lamp connection with twin ballast should be made with symmetrical wiring

Question 1:

SK II could be the "twin" lamps, so no need for earth
and
SK I must be single tube, there for requiring ballast

I'm thinking otherwise though, because single tubes always have a built in ballast
or am iI wrong?.. hoping I don't need to earth,
because
I feel that ballast cold leads 11,12,13,14
need to be filled by lamp wires blue and green/yellow
so no need to attach them to ballast casing?

Question 2:

I see that earth pins on the lamp are at 4
Does that mean they should be separately slipped into Cold Lead ballast 13,14
With Blue Neutrals separately going into Cold Lead ballast 11,12
Thereby leaving
Hot Lead ballast 9 for the two brown lives twisted together
and
Hot Lead ballast 10 for the two hot wire blacks twisted together?

Also

On Ballast 3,4
I find that the mains lead has brown live and blue neutral only,
so
am I right in thinking that, if hot lead 9 will house the two live browns
then going from bottom to above in the same fashion
will mean that
Mains live will be ballast 4
and
Mains Neutral will be ballast 3

thanks in advance
 
Try writing in English not American and may be we will understand better. I think we are looking at something like this
ballast.jpg
Ballast2.jpg
It says earth to casing non of the terminals go to earth. I am reasonable sure the lamp holder is
Lampholder.jpg
counting from left first pair one heater and second pair other heater. So
Pin 1 heater 1
Pin 2 heater 1
Pin 3 Heater 2
Pin 4 Heater 2
But since I can't find any pin number I don't know for sure, but likely the output from the ballast is isolated from input so there is no neutral, hot wire, or earth as such.
 
Pin 1 is live brown
Pin 2 is Blue Neutral
Pin 3 is Hot wire Black
Pin 4 is Earth
No.
Fluorescent lamps do not have pins described as any of those.
The wiring diagram is printed on the ballast itself - all that is required is to connect the lamps as shown in that diagram.

The 230V input connects to the 2 input terminals. Earth connects to the metal case, normally via one of the screws that fixes the ballast into the light fitting.
 
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