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My Powerlite R37! My 1986 150W HPS Powerlite R37! The ballast was indeed junk. According to the ignitor, the ballast was an Advance. Ballast was 120/208/240/277V, wired for 208V. Capacitor was also dated 1986 like the housing, lamp, and PC. New ballast for it will be an Advance 100W MV HX (120V) which should arrive tomorrow. This will be getting a nice new coat of silver paint and all new screws and slipfitter bolts (hardware will be stainless). Also getting a new PC socket and lamp socket. Needs a new lamp socket bracket too (gonna be hard to make that...) Overall, the fixture is in decent shape for how filthy it was. Too bad this light was likely only used for a few years before being abandoned. A really nice fixture. Casting is very thin though, like newer Cooper Lighting fixtures. Keywords: American_Streetlights

My Powerlite R37!

My 1986 150W HPS Powerlite R37! The ballast was indeed junk. According to the ignitor, the ballast was an Advance. Ballast was 120/208/240/277V, wired for 208V. Capacitor was also dated 1986 like the housing, lamp, and PC.

New ballast for it will be an Advance 100W MV HX (120V) which should arrive tomorrow.

This will be getting a nice new coat of silver paint and all new screws and slipfitter bolts (hardware will be stainless). Also getting a new PC socket and lamp socket. Needs a new lamp socket bracket too (gonna be hard to make that...)

Overall, the fixture is in decent shape for how filthy it was. Too bad this light was likely only used for a few years before being abandoned. A really nice fixture. Casting is very thin though, like newer Cooper Lighting fixtures.

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Model25FanForever   [May 08, 2017 at 03:32 PM]
Nice! Good stuff getting a R37. I know you wanted one really bad Smile
streetlight98   [May 08, 2017 at 05:01 PM]
Thanks! Yeah I finally have an R37! Cool Casting is thinner than I thought but a really nice light otherwise. I painted the door today with some silver paint. Wow! It looks awesome! Once I get the stuck screw out of the top housing I'll paint that too, but not right now since I don't want the "removing stuck screw process" to scuff up the new paint job.

I made a new refractor retaining clip today. Not sure if it's stainless steel or zinc plated so I coated it with some enamel paint to prevent rusting just to be safe.
m@   [May 09, 2017 at 03:22 AM]
Ah, I see what I always see around here, rust lines coming from the external slipfitter bolts.
streetlight98   [May 09, 2017 at 04:26 AM]
Yeah the light's mascara is running from crying after two decades of abandonment. Razz Laughing I replaced the bolts with stainless steel versions and with the new paint, this thing looks like new. They should've used stainless hardware to begin with. Rolling Eyes GE did the external bolt thing in the 70s and Westy even did it in the late 70s and early 80s and none of them used stainless. GE used galvanized but Westy used only zinc plated! Those things rust out in five years! Some of the boxy Ov-15s and OV-25s have their threaded rods rust so badly that the entire arm needs to be replaced when the lights die because the bolts are stuck in place! They were never really used around here. RIDOT used some but they're all gone now with the LEDs (most were gone well before the LEDs though, being filtered out through dying ignitors or construction projects).

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