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New GE PSMH street light - M250R2 150w Compton, CA is changing all of its streetlights to Pulse Start Metal Halide. They even requested Southern California Edison to change their lights to PSMH. Here's a GE 150w PSMH street light on a residential street. I risked life, limb and anxiety attacks to take this pic, as Compton is a real ghetto!!! But I am fine, it was actually very quiet. Keywords: American_Streetlights

New GE PSMH street light - M250R2 150w

Compton, CA is changing all of its streetlights to Pulse Start Metal Halide. They even requested Southern California Edison to change their lights to PSMH. Here's a GE 150w PSMH street light on a residential street. I risked life, limb and anxiety attacks to take this pic, as Compton is a real ghetto!!! But I am fine, it was actually very quiet.

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Filename:2011-06-09_16-54-24_381.jpg
Album name:Silverliner14B / southern california edison street lights (includes city owned lts)
Keywords:American_Streetlights
Company and Date Manufactured:GE, 2011
Model Number:M250R2
Wattage:150w
Lamp Type:Pulse Start Metal Halide
Filesize:137 KiB
Date added:Jun 10, 2011
Dimensions:1296 x 976 pixels
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DateTime Original:2011:06:09 23:54:23
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Silverliner14B   [Jun 10, 2011 at 03:56 AM]
I think this one has a Philips ED23.5 ceramic metal halide lamp as it contains a mogul base lamp. It is rated at 24,000 hours, same as HPS. See here.
Form109   [Jun 10, 2011 at 04:26 AM]
Compton is Ghetto eh?...i always heard it was a rough area,lots of violence....cool pic anyway...i don't think i would have stopped tho.
Silverliner14B   [Jun 10, 2011 at 04:42 AM]
Oh I was careful I chose this area as it was quiet, areas with crowds are dangerous because that's where gangfights occur. Compton is indeed rough, but Detroit, parts of South Central LA, St Louis, etc are much worse.
joe_347V   [Jun 10, 2011 at 04:52 AM]
Yeah I've always heard that Compton's a rough area, but I see that you took some precautions when taking this pic.
LilCinnamon   [Jun 10, 2011 at 07:35 AM]
I know about Detroit, my English teacher used to live and work there, and he got involved with fights himself. I wonder why certain parts in cities can be so violent and rough.
mercuryvaporrocks   [Jun 10, 2011 at 03:46 PM]
New Kensington and Arnold PA are bad areas too. They're the worst cities in Westmoreland County alot of violence and drugs over there.
GullWhiz   [Jun 10, 2011 at 06:32 PM]
Parts of Baltimore City is pretty bad....that's why in some areas you'll see 1000 watt HPS in use....They are used in GE M-1000 and AE 327s!
mercuryvaporrocks   [Jun 10, 2011 at 07:35 PM]
New Kensington has alot of 1000 watt mercury vapor streetlights too.
Silverliner14B   [Jun 10, 2011 at 08:08 PM]
I wonder if Compton went to metal halide to try to improve their image. By the way, I checked the SCE street light tariff rates, they do offer metal halide as an option, but oddly they don't list a 150w, not even for city owned ones either (100w and 175w are listed for both systems, up to 400w). SCE owned systems are made of incandescent, mercury vapor, high pressure sodium, low pressure sodium, metal halide, and LEDs. City owned systems in SCE land list everything above plus induction.
streetlight98   [Jun 10, 2011 at 08:36 PM]
Don't like the PMH tags. They should all be one color. The variety of PMH tags is too wide. You're lucky. Here they only offer HPS.
mercuryvaporrocks   [Jun 10, 2011 at 09:02 PM]
New Kensington had hundreds of their mercury vapor globe top fixtures replaced with new LED's postlights to try to improve their image but there's still many empty storefronts down there til this day. Laughing
DimBulb   [Jun 11, 2011 at 12:23 AM]
A few years ago, San Diego installed some MH lights in ghetto areas to help reduce crime. I think they replaced LPS lights.
TiCoune66   [Jun 11, 2011 at 12:41 AM]
I would like to see metal halide lamps replacing HPS, rather than LED. In my opinion ceramic metal halide lamps have a greater potential of overall performance than other light sources. Plus we would get back to white light! Cool

However I like HPS too. They'll always bring me some nostalgia. It's a little weird to me to think that in a more or less close future, it's gonna be "back when HPS was used in streetlighting" LOL.
streetlight98   [Jun 11, 2011 at 02:00 AM]
They use MH post tops in Providence, but they're like 100w and not bright enough. Confused
joe_347V   [Jun 11, 2011 at 03:13 AM]
+1 on the CMH lamps, I also want to see them used to replace HPS for streetlighting.

Toronto used low watt MH in their gumballs and have a few MH cobras but the suburbs are 99% HPS.

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