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Another Great Find!
This was another great find on my trip, a dayburnning Powerlite B2217! Oh and it's mercury!
Keywords: American_Streetlights

Another Great Find!

This was another great find on my trip, a dayburnning Powerlite B2217! Oh and it's mercury!

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Filename:IMG_1481.JPG
Album name:gailgrove / Outdoor Lighting
Keywords:American_Streetlights
Filesize:86 KiB
Date added:Jul 07, 2011
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DateTime Original:2011:07:02 11:01:14
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Focal length:5.8 mm
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Make:Canon
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Model:Canon PowerShot A580
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Form109   [Jul 08, 2011 at 12:16 AM]
That's a Nice Find,i wish i had got some pics of these while i was in Birmingham cause they were plentiful.
joe_347V   [Jul 08, 2011 at 04:25 AM]
Nice find, did you see the street I found that still had a lot of these.
gailgrove   [Jul 08, 2011 at 10:52 PM]
I didn't actually see that, I also noticed a three way arm just down the road! I wish I lived on that street!
joe_347V   [Jul 08, 2011 at 11:09 PM]
Yeah, lots of older Powerlites, Silverliners and even Unistyles on that street, wouldn't mind living there myself too.
LilCinnamon   [Oct 23, 2011 at 09:27 PM]
Those insulators look big, I wonder why they used those?
streetlight98   [Oct 23, 2011 at 09:35 PM]
Becuase it's a high voltage. From what I see Niall's and Joe's areas use higher voltages on their high voltage wires than the US. A real challenge would be to find a B2213, B2215, or B2217 with a PC receptacle. I don't think any of them in any photos we see had them. Neutral
LilCinnamon   [Oct 23, 2011 at 10:08 PM]
They don't look THAT high, because it looks like a simple transformer turning it into a voltage that works for the streetlight.
streetlight98   [Oct 23, 2011 at 10:32 PM]
Maybe they just wanted to be safe then..... I don't know much about transmittion. I'm more into the wiring of lighting not really wiring in general.
gailgrove   [Oct 23, 2011 at 11:18 PM]
This isn't my area, neither was that other shot with the small Wide-Lites. The standard here is 14 kV.
joe_347V   [Oct 23, 2011 at 11:44 PM]
I've only come across one B2217 with a PC socket in it.

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