Camp Street Lights

These are at a summer camp I used to go to (now my brother goes there). They have primary metering so all the powerlines inside the camp are camp-owned, including these lights. The lights and arms obviously originated from National Grid. I suppose someone at the camp has a friend. The lights were installed a few years ago and were used when installed, albeit lightly. There are three lights, one behind the pic. All 50W HPS M-250R2s. One of them has no NEMA tag and has "50 SV" (50W sodium vapor aka HPS) written on the door.

Each pole has a switch about 8ft below the mounting arm. These lights are used dusk-to-dawn during the summer camp season (it's a Boy Scout summer camp, Camp Yawgoog, in Hopkinton, RI) and shut off for the winter. The one that's on has a bad photocell, it's not because the switch is on. They all have their switches on.

These poles originally had no lights on them; they actually carried a triplex feed over to a building that was torn down over a decade ago, so the poles essentially carried the triplex to nowhere. Three poles and then the wire ended lol. So they got the idea to install lights for the parking area. Cool!

One time we had camped there in the winter (stayed in a cabin) and I came over here with a couple of fellow scouts and we grabbed a long plank from the wood pile in the back of the lot (far end of the picture to the left) and flipped the switches on. Easy to turn them of but not so easy to turn off, so we left them on. They have PCs anyway (and this one wasn't dayburning).