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100 W Metal Halide Post Tops soon (Tommorow) to be 40W Light Emmiting Diode
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As of tomorrow the post top fixtures in my complex are now going to be 40W LED instead 100W MH
I am going to miss watching them warm up for the night.
But on the bright side (Pun intended lol) I am probably going to score some cool looking post top fixtures (I talked to the guy responsible for the massacre of the Metal Halide post tops and he said I could have up to three of the fixtures and as many lamps as I can handle the rest are going to $old for scrap)
PS: I pray that they are 120 or at least have a multitap ballast as I want to make a post top floor lamp
Yes I have been eying those fixtures for a while now
I heard that they used to be 175W MV but I am unsure of that because as long as I lived here they were always Metal Halide
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But I just got the bad news that they are keeping the actual fixtures so I will probably just get some ballast + lamps
oh well
PS I saw the new LED bulbs and they are actually 42W and are huge. The fixtures open up from the top and they were barely able to close with the new LEDs bulbs
I don't know exactly what they are doing as I saw them place the LEDS in the fixture (Maybe to see if they fit) and now some of the poles have a new item attached to them the pole I took the picture of is one of them
Also some of the poles have a red ribbon and some have blue one tied around it
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I just noticed that the fixtures on the building itself were also replaced with an LED fixture
So Long HID I barely knew ya!
The fixtures that they used look like a giant VHS tape (If anyone can remember what those look like
They were 70 Watt HPS though I think they were call tall packs like a tall and skinny wall pack
EDIT: Today 03/11/2014 at 2:03PM
I caught the guys just as they were leaving and I only had a minor score
I got an Advance M90 120/277V ballast with a bulged cap and a Castor
Now the ballast has an ignitor so would this be Pulse start correct? So I would need a pulse rated socket as I did not get a socket as all they did was remove and bypass the ballast the socket stayed with the fixture
A bulged capacitor? Odds are you'd want to replace that cap since if it's bulged, it was coming close to exploding...
You don't really NEED a pulse rated socket but if you were to put the ballast into use it would be a good idea... If you use a standard socket i'd at least use a ceramic one and not a plastic one. For a couple of bucks though, you can get a pulse rated medium base socket to run the PSMH gear and it comes prewired with 9" leads.
So I can use a regular ceramic socket that I have (For testing) as I have some in my "Junk Box" I will get a new capacitor and lamp if I actually plan to use this long term
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That weird thing they added to the pole turns out it was for another LED flood light made by RAB Lighting
so much for saving energy if they're going to add more lights lol. I assume it's nice and bright at night now though? BTW, those cassette tape looking LED fixtures are made by RAB too. There are some around here, both the type that look like cassette tapes and the kind which look like half a cassette tape lol.
and yeah the place is now lit like a parkway (In the bad way as in Connecticut most of parkways are not lit except for the exits and on ramps)
I-195 is continuously lit it's entire length in RI but has no lights in MA, even at the exits. RI Rte 37 is lit end-to-end and Rte 146 is lit from its southern beginning to halfway through Lincoln. Rte 10 and US 6 are lit continuously on their freeway portions. That's basically all the major freeways in RI lol.