Re: SOX located in the US! « Reply #2 on: November 25, 2021, 03:18:10 AM » Author: WorldwideHIDCollectorUSA
San Diego, California used to be a hotspot for SOX lanterns up until recently as LED lanterns have changed out the old SOX lanterns as SOX lamps became discontinued in 2019.
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	Re: SOX located in the US! « Reply #3 on: November 25, 2021, 07:58:00 AM » Author: funkybulb
Cause they are force to change out lantern As philips sent lamp supplier and city and towns  To move to somthing else a lamp soon to be out of  Production. It the EU cause this mess becase they wanted White light with higher CRI in the streets. At one point philips had two sox plants running.  AS old Norelco LPS (SOX) lamp made in belgium lamp plant.  And back in 80s  US had way more SOX lighting but HPS lightng is far more cheaper and better CRI back in early 1990s that when 2/3 of US sox lighting fell out of use.   The main San Antonio Post office was once lot with 180 watt Sox as was impressive to watch and running up.
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	Re: SOX located in the US! « Reply #4 on: December 06, 2021, 04:04:52 AM » Author: Silverliner
Several cities in California used SOX lamps to minimize light pollution for nearby observatories, or just plain maximum efficiency. San Jose and San Diego were the most prominent SOX cities, so did Santa Maria, Redwood City, East Palo Alto, Long Beach, etc. They have since got rid of them, some years ago.
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	Re: SOX located in the US! « Reply #5 on: December 07, 2021, 08:32:11 PM » Author: wide-lite 1000
The City of Columbus still has tons of SOX in use on side streets , alleys and still a few underpasses . I'd bet they're not long for this world as of late .
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	Re: SOX located in the US! « Reply #6 on: December 08, 2021, 12:16:53 AM » Author: LightsoftheWest
The island of Hawai'i in Hawaii also used to have LPS luminaires. Those were replaced around 2018 or so.
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