Plastic, my brother now has this too.

Thanks, I personally prefer glass though...I've seen plastic lenses burnt to the point where there's a nice hole in the centre.

For cobraheads i like glass, but for signals i like plastic better. Glass looks better on vintage lights though.

Well for aluminium signals I prefer glass but poly signals look better with plastic lenses.

I don't like poly signals. I like the aluminum ones better.

I use poly lenses for frisbees! Thats all they're good for!!!

Also took one at the traffic signal collector meet last year and smashed through it with my fist. Thing distingrated...........

We don't have either in my area, all signals where converted to LED at least eight years ago.

I was surprised to see some incandescent traffic lights in Niagra Falls. I haven't seen an incandescent traffic light in over a year.

There's some incandescent traffic lights left in Vaughan, and Oakville too.

And Toronto still has a lot of incandescent amber lights. My area is completely LED though.

@ Nick you've told me that story at least a dozen times.

i don't like plastic lenses period....they always dull and yellow eventually.

Just like plastic refractors.

Wasn't telling you anything this time!!!

They don't yellow.......they char up......... I stuck my finger through one before with not much effort just trying to remove it from a signal I was working on....

@joe i don't think that's going to happen.

@Nick yes i have seen discolored traffic light lenses...Gadsden Alabama had plenty of 8 and 12" Signals with poly lenses with a Yellow-Brown discoloration smack dab in the middle of the lense.

I've seen that too. Is it all incandescent traffic light lenses or just the plastic ones that the coloring is dull?

i think its the heat that dulls incandescent poly lenses...glass wont be affected.

I know any incandescent signals i see have a very dull drab color while the new non pixlated LED ones are bright and vivid.

What kind of lamps do you use? I use 135w signal lamps in my 12" section and it's really bright. I use 60w clear lamps in my 8" sections though since I can't find 69w signal lamps.

One has a 40 watt lamp and the others have 60w lamps. Even the few incandescents i see, especially the green, the color isn't strong. It's like a whitish blue-green color

I guess it depends on the condition of the lens too, the problem I have with LEDs is that the colours aren't consistent especially the greens...some look almost like incandescent but some can look really blue.

I know what you mean. Mostly the older non pixlated LED retrofits here are blueish. The newer ones are green here thankfully.