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Lamps!
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Here are five lamps I got from the streetlighting contractor, they where relamping one of the OVZs on my grandmother's street that I had reported just as I was getting back from school! So I went over to watch them relamp the light and then they gave me these lamps, they only had one fixture that was taken down and it was a 400 watt 125 so I passed on it since I already have two of them, it was quite interesting watching them and I talked with them for a bit, something I didn't know was they check the fuse in the hand hole whenever they repair the fixture, I'm not sure what the purpose of that is but they do. I also saw that on their truck they carry 3 of each wattage of fixture as a replacement, they had OVZs 115 and OVXs. They also agreed that the ALTOs are crap but they are obviously forced to use whatever the company buys, the 70 watt ED 23 1/2 came out of the OVZ being relamped, this is pretty pathetic as it is the second light to fail in just over a year.
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What is the date code of that Sylvania HPS? It looks like it had a long life!
If yours is old enough to be a GTE lamp the date codes on those are usually on or near the stem press.