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Here is the fixture!! As you notice the refractor is plastic and already yellowing. xD Also, the refractor looks like just a bigger version of the AE plastic refractors used on AE 115's today. I wonder.. in 1983.. what were the single door Crouse-Hinds/Westinghouse fixtures being made? The L-250 kind of fixture? (probably called and cataloged OV-25 at the time) And this is just the power door version of that? Keywords: American_Streetlights

Here is the fixture!!

As you notice the refractor is plastic and already yellowing. xD

Also, the refractor looks like just a bigger version of the AE plastic refractors used on AE 115's today.

I wonder.. in 1983.. what were the single door Crouse-Hinds/Westinghouse fixtures being made? The L-250 kind of fixture? (probably called and cataloged OV-25 at the time) And this is just the power door version of that?

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Album name:Lil'Cinnamon / Westinghouse OV-25 Tudor
Keywords:American_Streetlights
Company and Date Manufactured:Westinghouse/Crouse-Hinds
Model Number:OV-25 Tudor
Wattage:250 watts
Lamp Type:High Pressure Sodium
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Date added:Oct 27, 2011
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tpirman1982   [Oct 27, 2011 at 11:27 AM]
Nice. I've seen those @ the VA Hospital parking lot here in Brockton, but the lenses are glass.
I've seen that same kind of plastic lenses on some Westinghouse OV25 Silverliners in East Boston, but they got replaced by LEDs recently.
GullWhiz   [Oct 27, 2011 at 04:02 PM]
This is actually a Cooper Crouse Hinds Tudor with a Westinghouse Ballast...basically....LOL The ballast was made by Westinghouse while Tudor was made by Cooper LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

And yes L-250s were the ones in 1983 and same for 1980....The last classic Silverliner OV-25s were around 1979.....But there were some still installed in the 80s...

Tudors came out in 1970
joe_347V   [Oct 27, 2011 at 06:34 PM]
In Canada the single door lumes at the time were still the classic OV 15 and OV 25, although the OV 25 already started to resemble the later Cooper ones.
Silverliner14B   [Oct 27, 2011 at 08:21 PM]
So this is like a Philips-Westinghouse lamp eh? Transitional make, nice find. I have a Westy OV-25 Tudor, 400w MV.
LilCinnamon   [Nov 05, 2011 at 09:41 PM]
This has one loud ballast. xD Bit it brightens up just fine! I am glad it works. I should get a picture of it lit soon. xD

But I just had it on for a while then it did a hot-restrike... Could the lamp be a cycler? Or maybe it was the photocell... All I can guess.
streetlight98   [Nov 05, 2011 at 11:18 PM]
Bypass the photocell socket and leave it on for 1-2 hours and then you'll know for sure......
LilCinnamon   [Nov 06, 2011 at 12:52 AM]
Actually I just replaced the lamp and the other lamp lit fine for a while. I think that lamp is a cycler.
streetlight98   [Nov 06, 2011 at 01:08 AM]
Try the lamp in another fixture...... And can you post a pic of the side of this? Thanks. Smile
LilCinnamon   [Nov 06, 2011 at 01:16 AM]
I used the lamp in the OVH. Left it plugged in LONGER.

The lamp (in both fixtures) started up normal, then it started to get all white. Like a Metal Halide color. Then it got really yellow. Then it turned off.

Then it glowed a bit but the light wouldn't turn back on. It just stayed off. xD
streetlight98   [Nov 06, 2011 at 02:04 AM]
You have cycler then. Smile I kind of like cycling lamps. They're good if you like seeing HPS lamps warm up. They will kill the ignitors after a while though.
NiMo   [Nov 06, 2011 at 02:28 AM]
The refractor is a Lexalite Brand acrylic refractor for Westinghouse-type luminaires. Formed Plastics also manufactures a Poly refractor for Westinghouse-types, but it retains the same shape as the glass counterpart, albeit somewhat shallower. I have one of these and will post it in short order.
LilCinnamon   [Nov 06, 2011 at 02:34 AM]
This plastic refractor sure has a similar pattern on the plastic as the 115 American Electric polycarbonate refractors. Like the one on my AE 115, it has the same/similar refractor pattern.
NiMo   [Nov 06, 2011 at 02:37 AM]
Lexalite only makes two cobrahead refractors. The small one is used by Lithonia (as well as the previous incarnations of ITT/American Electric, but Sylvania used it and Hubbell uses it as well.
joe_347V   [Nov 06, 2011 at 02:44 AM]
Lexan was GE's trademark for polycarbonate.
NiMo   [Nov 06, 2011 at 02:45 AM]
No, Lexan is GE's proprietary trademark for their Polycarbonate refractors.
streetlight98   [Nov 06, 2011 at 02:46 AM]
How come thay don't make the poly lenses like the acrylic ones?
joe_347V   [Nov 06, 2011 at 02:52 AM]
Actually GE polycarbonate sheets were also trademarked as Lexan, not just the refractors. And that's a moot point now since GE Plastics along with the trademarks was sold off to SABIC in 2007.
streetlight98   [Nov 06, 2011 at 02:58 AM]
So GE doesn't even make their refraactors anymore? Neutral
LilCinnamon   [Dec 27, 2011 at 02:47 PM]
It's funny.. This Tudor was in service for MUCH longer than my OVX, and yet the OVX has a much more browned refractor than the Tudor, the Tudor is pretty yellow but the OVX refractor is yellower. The OVX has been in service since 2002 at least I think.. The Tudor it was like 1984 at least. Funny...

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