working man, no offense to you personally with my last comment, but the type of LED retrofit lamp you installed cannot possibly produce the amount of light of a 175w MH, yes there are 15K lumen LED retrofit lamps, but they are enormous and would never fit a fixture like that. I imagine the lamps you installed are probably somewhere in the region of 3000-5000 lumens, the LED strips facing the rear of the fixture are basically wasted since those wallpacks use a small reflector and the LED lamps are generally much larger that the HID lamps they replaced. In this situation, youre lucky to get 1/8-1/4 of the light out of the fixture compared to the original metal halide lamp.
I too work for an electrical contractor, a do plenty of lighting installations, from experience this type of retrofit simply doesnt last, even if you used quality lamps. The fixture is totally enclosed and the heatsinking on those corn cob lamps is minimal, I see failures of these in the field all the time. The company I work for generally upgrades clients to LED by removing the entire HID fitting and installing a proper LED fitting.
Lastly, by lazy, this type of retrofit is exactly that, a cheap, quick retrofit that will have dismal performance and reliability. Electrical contractors looking to make a quick buck regardless of the outcome for the client performs these types of retrofits, we have a competitor here that will literally retrofit a customer's entire exterior lighting with the same 40w LED corn cob lamps, the 100w wallpacks and 400w HPS parking lot lights all get the same cheap 40w 6500K corn cob lamps, and it looks terrible.
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