The college I go to the library was just remodeled and all the T12 lighting was replaced the ceiling is really high and it's light with T5 uplighting which makes it dim

Also at the same college outside it's lit with 1KW HPS floodlites about 4-5 of em  It's too bright and glary

One of the bulbs was cycling 

The highways department at Southampton City Council tend to use full cut-off luminaires on new schemes along with white light sources, which gives a pleasant, low glare, high quality light with little light pollution.

The education department has installed non-cut off luminaires in a school next to this road, which run HPS and give out an artificial, high glare, poorer quality light with lots of light pollution, and makes driving along the nearby road more unpleasant and slightly more dangerous.

Seeing those god awful Durastar fixtures!

I was offered a Durastar fixture and i said " i would rather die then have one of those ugly hidious peices of junk".

(sorry durastar lovers)

Seeing those god awful Durastar fixtures!

I was offered a Durastar fixture and i said " i would rather die then have one of those ugly hidious peices of junk".

(sorry durastar lovers)

I don't think anyone here "loves" them loves to smash them is more the word

If I was offered one, I would take it in. Ugly as sin, but since no one is willing to take them in it will be a rare piece when AEL stop making them and the ones already in existence and in use succumbs to vandalism and age which is really short.

I have another pet peeve that I forgot to mention before...  Badly designed and/or maintained HID floodlighting, especially when it is in a hazardous environment.

Like the case of an indoor swimming pool that I go to quite often. The deep end is lit from above with 8 HPS floodlights - but over the last year 7 of them have died completely and as of last week the one light that still 'works' has started cycling! .... When it goes out all that's left to illuminate that area are the MV underwater lights, but - not surprisingly - most of these are glowing a dim sicky colour as they haven't been replaced for years     
Also, due to the way the building is wired, when any big electrical load switches on it knocks out a lot of the HPS lights around the other side of the pool - which leaves the entire space extremely dim (not much daylight comes in due to the windows being covered with insulation) while these lamps cool down before re-striking!

As you can imagine that place is VERY creepy at night.... I would really like to get a picture of it but cameras are forbidden there, I wonder why.

This must be seriously unsafe as how are the lifeguards supposed to spot anyone in trouble if the lighting is so dingy ? 

I have another pet peeve that I forgot to mention before...  Badly designed and/or maintained HID floodlighting, especially when it is in a hazardous environment.

Like the case of an indoor swimming pool that I go to quite often. The deep end is lit from above with 8 HPS floodlights - but over the last year 7 of them have died completely and as of last week the one light that still 'works' has started cycling! .... When it goes out all that's left to illuminate that area are the MV underwater lights, but - not surprisingly - most of these are glowing a dim sicky colour as they haven't been replaced for years     
Also, due to the way the building is wired, when any big electrical load switches on it knocks out a lot of the HPS lights around the other side of the pool - which leaves the entire space extremely dim (not much daylight comes in due to the windows being covered with insulation) while these lamps cool down before re-striking!

As you can imagine that place is VERY creepy at night.... I would really like to get a picture of it but cameras are forbidden there, I wonder why.

This must be seriously unsafe as how are the lifeguards supposed to spot anyone in trouble if the lighting is so dingy ? 

Maybe cameras are forbidden so they can continue getting away with the creepy lighting! as for the greened out MV, I love the color of the greened out ones! at least they aren't MH! those would have probably exploded by now!

If I was offered one, I would take it in. Ugly as sin, but since no one is willing to take them in it will be a rare piece when AEL stop making them and the ones already in existence and in use succumbs to vandalism and age which is really short.

durauglys will never be classics simple as that,even years after they quit making them.

Communities that install 400 watt high pressure sodium fixtures on quiet residential streets where there's barely any traffic. Now that's just crazy.

Communities that install 400 watt high pressure sodium fixtures on quiet residential streets where there's barely any traffic. Now that's just crazy.

same here,well actually sometimes here they install 200 watt hps fixtures on side streets,not quite as bad as 400 but still too bright for side streets.

Even I was told 150 watt HPS is too bright and I live in neighborhood that has five 150 watt HPS, posttops 4 Cooper Traditionares and one GE Salem, good thing they are very far apart.....the GE Salem is the one in front of my house!

One of my other petpeeve is that in some electric companies, since MV was banned, if a MV is replaced, instead of replacing from 400 watt to 250 watt HPS, they replace from 400 watt MV to 400 watt HPS!!!! That's not really that green...

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