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Taped Up PC Looks like they taped up the PC on this Durastar so they could wire it on to the group relay system.

Taped Up PC

Looks like they taped up the PC on this Durastar so they could wire it on to the group relay system.

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Filename:PA220087.JPG
Album name:joe_347V / Southern Ontario Streetlights
Company and Date Manufactured:American Electric
Model Number:Durastar Series 20
Wattage:150w
Lamp Type:High Pressure Sodium
Filesize:199 KiB
Date added:Apr 09, 2011
Dimensions:1600 x 1200 pixels
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DateTime Original:2010:10:22 17:01:50
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gailgrove   [Apr 10, 2011 at 02:25 AM]
I guess they haven't heard of shorting caps.
GullWhiz   [Apr 10, 2011 at 03:42 AM]
Or maybe they don't carry shorting caps....plus didn't want to remove the original PC or anything...but do I see a remote ballast?
gmercury2000   [Apr 10, 2011 at 08:16 AM]
That looks like a relay next to the PC bracket!
gailgrove   [Apr 10, 2011 at 01:51 PM]
Yep thats a relay not a remote ballast.
GullWhiz   [Apr 10, 2011 at 04:08 PM]
Nice...I do know some cylinder shaped relays but only the PC is directly on top of the relay itself instead of separate...never actually held one up close though
joe_347V   [Apr 11, 2011 at 02:48 AM]
Yeah a lot of the relays here have the PC on top too, and I thought some of them were remote ballasts too.

We also have the giant relay cabinets for freeway lights and a fuse box sized control box for some smaller installs too.
Antstar85   [Aug 05, 2011 at 11:17 PM]
The town of South Hadley, MA which is near me uses nothing but Durastars. YUCK!, plus why are the taping the photocell since they are using a remote cell anyway?
gailgrove   [Aug 06, 2011 at 12:16 AM]
The remote PC is controlling the relay can beside it, it likely does several light. I still think they should of just used a shorting cap.
streetlight98   [Feb 18, 2012 at 11:42 PM]
Or they could just leave the PC as it is with no tape. That wouldn't do any harm. I see some lights here that are controlled by relays that have regular unmasked PCs installed becuase a shorting cap wasn't on a hand.
HPSM250R2   [Feb 19, 2012 at 01:41 AM]
Sun-Tech makes their shorting caps with the same cap as their photocontrols. So you wouldn't know if it was a shorting cap or a photocontrol unless you could actually see components of a photocontrol behind the window.

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