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Double Armed Lights
Here are some poles with two arms in each direction! Each light is 250 wall HPS. 
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Double Armed Lights

Here are some poles with two arms in each direction! Each light is 250 wall HPS.

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Album name:gailgrove / Outdoor Lighting
Keywords:American_Streetlights
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Date added:Jul 05, 2011
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joe_347V   [Jul 05, 2011 at 02:46 AM]
They're pretty odd lights, MTO only used them on the 401 near Oshawa. Never figured out why though.
gailgrove   [Jul 05, 2011 at 02:56 AM]
Yeah it's strange, wouldn't just putting up one arm with a 400 watt fixture make more sense? Unless they figured that having two fixture would mean if one went out the would act redundantly and light the road.
Form109   [Jul 05, 2011 at 05:14 AM]
In that instance Dual-Arctube Standby Lamps would be a better solution.
gailgrove   [Jul 05, 2011 at 01:10 PM]
Possibly, but they didn't exist when this was done.
streetlight98   [Jul 05, 2011 at 02:03 PM]
Maybe they shut off one of the lights on each side after a certain time when traffic is lower.
gailgrove   [Jul 05, 2011 at 02:06 PM]
I don't think so, it is possible but I've never heard of the MTO doing that.
streetlight98   [Jul 05, 2011 at 05:35 PM]
Maybe they used to and they don't now for some reason. Anywats, how old is this set up?
joe_347V   [Jul 05, 2011 at 10:24 PM]
Apparently MTO did switch the lumes separately at one point since there's a article titled "Dual-level lighting system performance Highway #401, Oshawa" in their library...too bad they didn't scan the full text in though.

Anyways this setup looks late 70s - 80s to me.
gailgrove   [Jul 06, 2011 at 08:11 PM]
Interesting, I would guess around the same time period too, I think the R37's are the original fixtures.
GullWhiz   [Jul 06, 2011 at 08:26 PM]
Joe, I want to see the article...
joe_347V   [Jul 06, 2011 at 09:37 PM]
I don't have the article with me...it's just a entry with the title on MTO's website. I think they haven't scanned in the article yet.

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