Need some help with HiDs. Electrical guru's please help.

My passenger hid comes in when it wants to. I typically have to turn the lights on and off to make them come on, but even after that it may still shut off.

A little story of how I think it happened. A while ago I bought jdm bumper DRLs and tapped them into the factory DRLs. They weren't the same colors so I decided to tap into the parking light. because it matched the color of my headlights. It didn't work or have enough power I don't know. It did however blow my ballast For the pass side as that's the side I was working on. Put stock headlights on they both worked no problem. Bought a cheap ballast of Amazon for the pass side it worked then 2 months. down the line i realized it was not working 100%. Changed out the ballast again and it's still the same issue. I have a feeing I messed something up in the car itself. Any suggestions.

Ps sorry for the long story.

 

My question isn't about the DRLs. It's about my HID not staying on all the time. On the DRLs though they did work when tapped to the factory DRLs. But not on the parking light which I understand. I need my hid to function as normal but can't figure out the culprit.

 

so the ballast is brand new which i thought was the reason why i bought a new one. i haven't tried swapping the bulb yet, which is def a good point. Im guessing that when i have my stock headlights in and there are not flickering its not a power issue. The HIDs ran fine for 2 years until i messed with the extra lighting, so I know its not a situation where I need one of those adapters for the HIDS. will check the bulbs out this weekend. Thanks for the help

 

Just a little update I swapped the ballast from my right to left. and it followed the ballast. So I thought I had it solved and it was the ballast even though it was a warranty just sent back to me. Then I took that same ballast and plugged it into my camry that also has HIDS, It flickered a couple of times, but came on normally. It definitely had a higher success rate when I repeatedly turned the headlight on and off. Most of the time it came right on a very few times it had a one second delay compared to the ones that were already in the camry. So do you guys still think its the ballast?

I put the stock headlights back in the prius and they work normally.

 

Ok I think its the ballast. I had another ballast that was brand new that I installed and it works fine now. Ive checked them 3 days in a row and it comes on. I buy my HID kits from DDM tuning I have these lights in my 2010 camry which I got new in 2009. I have them installed in headlights and fogs and have been running like a champ for 6 years now. It was 3 years in my prius and I'm the one that caused the ballast to go bad. What I think happened is that DDM tuning has a lifetime warranty and when you send on in they send you back a refurbished one and thats why Im having the problem.