Now that would fight crime for several blocks.

Ugh It does stick out like a sore thumb

LOL I bet the glass doesn't even fit, right? I guess you could try to fit a glass open-bottom NEMA bucket on there though.

that look ridiculous

I could imagine someone who didn't know any better doing this actually!

Yeah the glass dosen't fit but I think a open bottom glass would fit. Would also be funny to see the M-400A Crimefighter with one of these. I wonder if a 16" PowrBracket bucket would fit in them.

I actually do believe the M-400a crimefighter was about 16". They all used polycarbonate refractors instead of glass, oddly enough.

Mike I am not sure if the M-400A and M-400A2 ever had MV crime fighters though, but the newer smaller crimefighers even the 70s one actually has the polycarbonate refractors, I actually held an actual crime fighter a GE M-250A2 version! It's the first ones that had the glass

I have a feeling that the M-400A/M-400A2 Crimeifghters were only made in 310W HPS since that's what Chicago used in them. I suppose for lower wattages, the M-250A2 one was used instead. Didn't know the M-250A2 versions were also glass, GE must have switched glass manufacturers as the M-250R ones use the same glass as a Holophane RSL-200.

Yeah from the pictures I've seen, the M-250R1 Crimefighters used polycarbonate as did the M-400A ones. Yeah I've seen pictures of some CMH M-250A2 crimefighters with glass lenses.

I agree, I don't think there was a 400W MV crimefighter. The only MV ones AFAIK were these M-250R ones.

Hmm, didn't know Chicago had CMH crimefighters. Would be pretty interesting to see one of those. It seems almost all the Crimefighters in collector's hands are the M-250R MV ones. I also wonder if a 250w MV M-250R Crimfighter was made, I've yet to see one pop up aside from yours which is 250w MV max.

Turns out the lights I was thinking of are standard M-250A2s with CMH lamps. Still cool that they were using CMH instead of LED, though I think they've probably switched to LED now since GE no longer makes PSMH cobraheads. Note the weird wattages too. They apparently also use CMH 325s.

Ahh, yeah any PSMH cobrahead is pretty neat in my opinion. I believe the weird wattages is because they use a proprietary series of Philips CMH lamps instead of standard CMH lamps, but then again Chicago seems to like their weird wattages. I wonder if those GE PSMH lights in those wattages were a standard product or another Chicago special.

Marshall, MI has a lot of PSMH cobras although it seems like they might refitted old HPS lights since I recall seeing yellow NEMA tags. Toronto has MH AEL 125s but I think they're probe start. The gumballs are all PSMH though and I think they use CMH lamps in them.

Weird that GE would make a fixture designed special for Philips lamps when GE makes their own CMH lamps.