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My Silver M-400, well, my M-400 for now... This is for my friend Marco who gave me the OV-10IB and the OVC. He was looking for an M-400 to go with his OV-25 silverliners and this right here is a beautiful fixture! And unlike most of the fixtures used around here, this one is 120V! Not 240V! Actually I think the ballast is a 120/240V ballast but the nameplate only says 120V. Anyway, this needs a capacitor but there's no indication as to what that capacitor rating is. :-( So even though it's 120V I can't fire it up. I'll have to ask Joe if he ever recorded the capacitor ratings on these units. Keywords: American_Streetlights

My Silver M-400, well, my M-400 for now...

This is for my friend Marco who gave me the OV-10IB and the OVC. He was looking for an M-400 to go with his OV-25 silverliners and this right here is a beautiful fixture!

And unlike most of the fixtures used around here, this one is 120V! Not 240V! Actually I think the ballast is a 120/240V ballast but the nameplate only says 120V. Anyway, this needs a capacitor but there's no indication as to what that capacitor rating is. :-( So even though it's 120V I can't fire it up. I'll have to ask Joe if he ever recorded the capacitor ratings on these units.

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Album name:Mike / My General Electric M-400 (1973)
Keywords:American_Streetlights
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GEsoftwhite100watts   [Aug 06, 2014 at 12:28 AM]
Does Marco visit this site? If so that's really cool to have a member you know in person!
streetlight98   [Aug 06, 2014 at 12:55 AM]
Nope Marco isn't a member here. I know him because he's one of my uncle's coworkers at the speedway (My uncle's an announcer and Marco is the DJ for the bigger shows). Marco is also an electrician too. He's been very good to me with stuff over the past few years so I owe it to him to give him this nice beauty. Very Happy BTW, this is from December 1963 is I didn't mention it already.
GEsoftwhite100watts   [Aug 06, 2014 at 05:01 AM]
He collects streetlights?
streetlight98   [Aug 06, 2014 at 02:05 PM]
That would be why I'm giving him the M-400. Razz Laughing He's got some silverliners (OV-25s) and he's been looking for a GE M-400 to go along with them. There are some yellow scuffs from the Mass Electric bucket truck when they took this down. Smile

BTW, the reason the door looks warped is because it's not shut all the way. I only shut it for the pic since this light is a royal pain in the you-know-what to open up. My M-250R is much easier to open.

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