Makes sense. I would rather use a junction box, screwed in there. For obvious reasons I want to be code compliant. So when the time comes to sell the house, and an anal inspector comes through ripping electrical tape off my wire nuts - he sees that I am (was?) an amateur, but a higher class of amateur.
and hopefully these stories of electronic balasts failing are
Logical. I played golf with one of my dad's friends - he runs _a_ county forensics lab and had a few arson cases. When they can't figure out what caused a fire? Thay say electrical. So 9/10 times when the newspaper says a set of crossed wires caused a fire - they don't know.