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| I can name some GE discontinued all but one of their HID street lights, Advance discontinued their HID ballasts. What are some things you can name? They can be LED streetlight conversions in your town or nearby towns, they can be anything involving something bad that happened to any light source (besides LED of course) in 2020.
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I can name some GE discontinued all but one of their HID street lights, Advance discontinued their HID ballasts. What are some things you can name? They can be LED streetlight conversions in your town or nearby towns, they can be anything involving something bad that happened to any light source (besides LED of course) in 2020.
The M400A was discontinued shortly after the others. So now all GE HID cobraheads have been discontinued. |
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The M400A was discontinued shortly after the others. So now all GE HID cobraheads have been discontinued.
I wonder if they had some left over that they wanted to get rid of before they were discontinued. |
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I wonder if they had some left over that they wanted to get rid of before they were discontinued.
I doubt there were any models stocked, at least in recent years since LED. Everything was likely made to order. |
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| My parents converted some of the fluorescent and incandescent bulbs in the house to LED.
One of the oldest streetlights in my town (a GE M-400 MV) got replaced with an LED, and a vented GE M-400 Powr/Door MV got replaced as well, I noticed today.
I broke the original light bulb in my GE undercabinet radio by accident a few months ago.
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| For me it seems to be the beginning of the end for HID. With large manufacturers like GE discontinuing all HID luminaires and the major ballast OEMs like Advance and Venture discontinuing the ballasts, HID stuff will only become harder and harder to find.
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| CalTrans, partnered with a few cities, is doing a improvement project on the I-10. A lot of (non-functional) MV and (mostly neglected) HPS soffit lights will be gone along with a few HPS/MH combination lit high masts and most likely the sign lights as well.
The only MV that is gone from that project so far was a lone soffit light lighting an onramp. The lamp in it has been dead for years, and I've never seen it working. It had a glass bowl which had been broken long ago revealing a BT-28 coated mercury lamp that was intact.
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On the 60 freeway, another improvement project is happening there as well. A lot of the mercury and fluorescent sign lights were removed when they changed all the overhead signs, even some LED ones.
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Seeing some HPS GE M-400As getting replaced by Leotek E-Cobras (not CalTrans).
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| SCE partnered with a few cities in Ventura County, CA. This caused two cities to undergo partial and full LED conversions. Camarillo got a full LED conversion, replacing everything with GE Evolves except the city owned intersection lights. Thousand Oaks, which is near Camarillo, started an LED conversion mostly with GE Evolves as well. They eventually stopped about halfway through the city, so maybe they ran out of funds or something. Some HPS survived there because of this.
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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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| In terms of removals, a few signaled intersections got rebuilt over the summer and new poles and luminaires were part of the rebuild. It's to be expected but a couple of 1978 250w HPS OV-15s got replaced as part of the project.
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2020 sure brought a lot of c**p into my life in general and in the realm of lighting  Here’s the list of some unfortunate lighting issues I experienced this year: Walmart is now 90% LED. The USA made GE halogens are few and far in between. I’m still mourning the closure of the St. Marys PA plant and saying goodbye to USA made Sylvania lamps. The Salina KS fluorescent plant closing. Several car lights burnt out. Two license plate bulbs in the Subaru and a Silverstar Ultra headlight bulb in the Jetta. The EXPLODING Philips incandescent bulb in the bathroom Home Depot is abandoning name brand (Philips) lighting products in favor of store brand Ecosmart. Ecosmart is a good brand, but Philips is the best. Quite a year and I’m hoping 2021 will bring better fortune  |
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Philips DuraMax and GE Miser forever! Classic incandescents are the best incandescents!
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| I also forgot to mention that the Dollar general near my house had their 3 year old PERFECTLY FINE MH shoeboxes with LEDs that looked like floppy disks!
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| For me the worst thing would be the word of the Salina KS Philips plant closing. Other things include a Westinghouse Blackender F40CW going EOL. Also, elevator enthusiasts may know that GAL stopped making elevator fixtures.
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The slow but increasingly steady infection of leds acroos the country in streelights and lamp isles alike, limiting consumer chose to an all time low.  I just want to buy some incandescent lamps, not some halogen or led junk.  |
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I also forgot to mention that the Dollar general near my house had their 3 year old PERFECTLY FINE MH shoeboxes with LEDs that looked like floppy disks!
Yeah, mine did as well, I think last year. The other Dollar General that opened this year has all LED. |
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