Henry aka Dimbulb took me to this area of San Diego where the new fluorescents were recently installed. They are nice, BUT they replaced mercury lights :( I took this picture while sitting in Henry's 1960 Plymouth. Nice old car.
Dunno when, San Diego is 2.5 hours from where I live. Maybe I will take a close up of one in Compton, CA where more of these are found and it's only 50 minutes from me.
Mebbe better optics? Like Jace's XGS fixture? Hey Jace can you post a pic of both LPS on here? Just save them as 640X480 size. That's what I do with my pics. None of my pics even reach 75kb and they're all 640X480 size.
Maybe the optics do need some working to do. I saw some nice induction street lights in Oceanside, CA that have a pretty good light distribution. Almost like mercs!
For good AND efficient light distribution you need large ratio between bulb-reflector (or refractor) distance to light source dimensions.So you need or small light source, or huge optic assembly...
This is the reason, why i don't like fluorescent, nor LPS streetlights - due to the lamps being physically large lanterns are often glary and yield poor illumination quality (too large differences between darkest and brightest illumination level, too much spill light). I think CMH with well designed optic (this should not be difficult, only it should to only not be neglected; there is plenty of margin in optic/light source dimensions ratio)
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I am wondering what these look like when close up too. Mebbe I can help find out who made these.
This is the reason, why i don't like fluorescent, nor LPS streetlights - due to the lamps being physically large lanterns are often glary and yield poor illumination quality (too large differences between darkest and brightest illumination level, too much spill light). I think CMH with well designed optic (this should not be difficult, only it should to only not be neglected; there is plenty of margin in optic/light source dimensions ratio)