Urgent Help new red sea max 130 lights making lots of noise why?

I have juat bought and set up my new red sea max 130D today. I have turn it on and the pumps and protein skimmer make some noise which I expected. However the lights within the hood make a really loud annoying noise. Is this common. Or maybe this be a fault or something I can fix, improve.

 

What kind of noise is it? Does it sound like it's hitting something? A video or sound clip might help with that.

I know on my 250, the fans started making a noise about 2 months ago. It turns out that salt crept up onto them, and one fan was hitting the salt around the rim, and the other locked up completely. I took the hood apart, cleaned the fans, and they work well now. I know yours likely isn't salt creep, but it could be something as small as a bit of hanging plastic on the fan from manufacturing. Red Sea is great about customer service too, so you could give them a call.

 

It sounds like a fridge (that humming noise. Gets louder and the goes quite) I have tried putting weight on the hood in case it was a vibrating but still makes noise!! It's giveing me a headache.... Literally!!!

 

could be the ballast

 

Did you ever call up Red Sea?

 

What is a ballast?

Emailed red sea and they said it's usual to make "some noise" but this I think has to the out of the ordinary as you can hear it over telly. I am going to have to move the tank out of the living room as it's to annoying!!

 

Before you do that, record the sound for us. It's kinda hard to diagnose something like this without knowing what exactly we're dealing with.

 

Can you upload the sound or video clip on here?

 

You can upload a video clip to youtube, then embed the video in here.

 

Ok will load a video up tomorrow. Hopefully will be able to get it sorted as really want to start enjoying the tank and planning additions!!