Hmm. Looks like a newer PC... Looks like when the changed the PC before, they didn't replace the lamp. NGrid doesn't do that with their 1000W MV floods. They will replace the PC that it. I believe that's done since it's easier to simply change the PC than replace the giant flood with a 400W HPS one like company policy would sudgest they do. I guess that's why there are so many 1000W MV floods still around... Most could use new lamps too but no matter how dim, if the lamp works they'll repalce the PC and leave the lamp in. NGrid only stocks 100W MV lamps and I have a feeling once their existing inventory runs out, the 100W mercs will be repalced as they fail. IMO, I'd wait until LEDs are economical rather than put up a HPS for a few years only to have it replaced by an aluminum waffle. I don't know why LED fixtures don't get drop lenses! Or at least a flat opal lens or something to cut that horrid glare. The LED floodlights are just terrible! The light is thrown forward like a spotlight and the glare is insane!
A local chuch went from HPS to LED (the parking lot looks brighter IMO). there used to be two twin shoebox poles and one floodlight. The floodlight is aimed the same way the HPS one was. With HPS, it was aimed in a good way so that the light was thrown at at an out/down diagonal but with the LED flood (even though it's aimed just like the HPS one was) shines like a spot light. It lights just a dim area on the pavement and the rest of the light is focused on the ice cream shop across the street. Yuo practically go blind driving by at night.
I saw one of these (or perhaps a M-400) on a disconnected private pole recently with an intact refractor and PC. Wouldn't it be amazing if it still worked?
It was in the lot next to an antique store in Atascadero, CA.
Probably does. I know you probably don't remember much about the PC, but if it was older looking, the lamp and PC could have been original. i wonder if it's still there...
Yeah it looks like we're running out of space on the gallery server or something it seems?
LOL we don't have polar bears, penguins, etc and don't live in igloos. I don't live in Fairbanks either; I live in the southeast "Panhandle" part of the state which has a pacific-northwest-ish climate.
Not terribly viable with only like 35 people year-round, although feasibility studies have been done. It would just cost too much upfront to install, then maintain, and with so few people hooking on it just wouldn't be worth it.
Many people are pursuing alternative sources like solar and wind over/along with gas/diesel generators. And sometimes neighbors share power; I was giving a neighbor power from my generator at one point...
Yeah National Grid will replace the PCs on 1000W MV flood lights here but they won't relamp. If you report the flood light as being dim they'll replace it with a 400W HPS. For 100W Mv mercs they sometimes will relamp them if they have a lamp on the truck. For 175 and 400W cobraheads, I'm guessing they'll put in a new Pc if it's dayburning but they won't replace the lamp. If it burns out or is reported as dim they'll replace it. If it's dim but not reported as dim they'll leave it up. I guess they don't feel like replacing the light but at the same time don't want to relamp them.
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A local chuch went from HPS to LED (the parking lot looks brighter IMO). there used to be two twin shoebox poles and one floodlight. The floodlight is aimed the same way the HPS one was. With HPS, it was aimed in a good way so that the light was thrown at at an out/down diagonal but with the LED flood (even though it's aimed just like the HPS one was) shines like a spot light. It lights just a dim area on the pavement and the rest of the light is focused on the ice cream shop across the street. Yuo practically go blind driving by at night.
It was in the lot next to an antique store in Atascadero, CA.
LOL we don't have polar bears, penguins, etc and don't live in igloos. I don't live in Fairbanks either; I live in the southeast "Panhandle" part of the state which has a pacific-northwest-ish climate.
Many people are pursuing alternative sources like solar and wind over/along with gas/diesel generators. And sometimes neighbors share power; I was giving a neighbor power from my generator at one point...