i can't believe this so i have to get rd of my moms gumball ? 
tale a look http://www.sa-ida.org/Illegal%20Mercury%20Vapor%20Lights.htm

I doubt this law will be enforced.

i can't believe this so i have to get rd of my moms gumball ? 
tale a look http://www.sa-ida.org/Illegal%20Mercury%20Vapor%20Lights.htm

No you don't. just refit it with either a metal halide or HPS ballast and lamp.

All Arizona: All Mercury Vapor Light Fixtures will be Illegal to use

                       after January 1, 2011.

This makes it sound like its enforced..........I think this is wrong!

ill be tied to my moms pole under her gumball i installed for her when the cops come for it !!!! lol 

ill be tied to my moms pole under her gumball i installed for her when the cops come for it !!!! lol 

Now you don't have to get that drastic.  I told you, replace the ballast with MH or HPS.

merc is better !!! lol

From a purely asthetic POV, that may be, but I think the lawmakers have a point.  BTW, get a ballast kit that burns both MH and merc.  Besides, if you switch over to MH, you'll get a better color and much better efficiency.

yeah im just old fashioned actually were i live in east phx az there are only my moms gumball i put up and 4 other street lights that are still merc vapor other then that its all hps. and i look when i drive to work ops actually there are 2 others i see from the freeway but thats about it seems to be about it. all pink city nowadays.

by the way guys i ment "no more merc's" mers whats a mers doh!!!!

It just goes to show how messed up our government is today. Too many dumb laws being passed like this, besides most metal halide ballasts can take mercury vapor lamps 175 watts and above.

sweet i had a coworker show me that a few days ago i was like wow !!!! but yeah another dumb law i mean ok a old merc vapor and a metal halide and a hps bulb same wattage well close how much money is there really a difference ? i personally think if the govt or local govt was really worried about saving money etc ther whould be lps/sox fixtures all over like in flagstaff az i know color rendering is junk but light polution whould be almost none at all . yeah i can just see now light polution/dark sky cps driving arround at night taking names !! lol 

Someone told me that he read that in Arizona the mercury ban law is ONLY for outside.....not inside houses or buildings so that means it is OKAY to have mercury vapor fixtures and bulbs inside the house.......so mercury vapor lights inside your house is safe.....

well like the other guy said i bet it will not be enforced 

Maybe you could rewire for high output daylight CFL...but I know it won"t be the same. I tried to convert a nema yardlight to 175w MH, but the head gets so hot it cracked the cap...you would have to remote mount the cap, but some 70w MH don't use caps.
Don