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New pole with a 310w HPS GE M-400A2 being installed. CalTrans District 12. Link. |
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Long live the HPS and SOX!
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New pole with a 310w HPS GE M-400A2 being installed. CalTrans District 12.
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Nice to see a new HPS fixture being installed, especially in a CalTrans district! |
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I’ve always been interested in all kinds of lighting, mainly incandescent and HID, and especially all kinds of sodium lamps (HPS/LPS). I’ll tolerate LED but I’m not a fan of it.
I’m not proud to say that my city has Devolved to LED.
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| This is a older video from the 1990s. The Philips Ceramalux lamp that they installed in the light is from the 1990s.
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| Interesting to see a CalTrans style slip pole base too.
Over here MTO uses conventional poles but with frangible couplings to the pole base.
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HID, LPS, and preheat fluorescents forever!!!!!!
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| I find that it is interesting to see that the workers hung the lantern before the pole was fastened to the ground.
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DISCLAIMER: THE EXPERIMENTS THAT I CONDUCT INVOLVING UNUSUAL LAMP/BALLAST COMBINATIONS SHOULD NOT BE ATTEMPTED UNLESS YOU HAVE THE PROPER KNOWLEDGE. I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY INJURIES.
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This is a older video from the 1990s. The Philips Ceramalux lamp that they installed in the light is from the 1990s.
I apparently failed to notice the low resolution video!  Still, nice to see how CalTrans used to install and maintain HPS lights. |
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New pole with a 310w HPS GE M-400A2 being installed. CalTrans District 12.
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Looks like the M400A2 they installed on the arm was a 200 watt. |
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| Somehow I didn't see that, my bad! Wonder why they swapped the 310w ballast door with a 200w one?
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| Energy savings . Convert 100 fixtures and you just saved 11,000 watts of electricity while the "average" driver will never notice the difference.
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| Makes sense! Though I've never seen 200w HPS lights in service on the freeways here (unless there were some I didn't know about). All I've seen is 310w. The only place I've seen the 200w lights were on overpasses.
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| Yeah, I used to question why you would want to go to the expense of swap ballasts and lamps to go to T8 to save 8 watts but when you have a large building with thousands of lamps in use that 8 watts becomes 16000 watts.
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Makes sense! Though I've never seen 200w HPS lights in service on the freeways here (unless there were some I didn't know about). All I've seen is 310w. The only place I've seen the 200w lights were on overpasses.
That’s weird, I’ve never seen 310w HPS on freeways! I was too late to see the freeways before CalTrans went LED. I have seen 310w HPS at an intersection before. I also saw 250w HPS on a freeway. |
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I’ve always been interested in all kinds of lighting, mainly incandescent and HID, and especially all kinds of sodium lamps (HPS/LPS). I’ll tolerate LED but I’m not a fan of it.
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