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My New Addition: 1990 Series 113
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This light was installed on this pole. As you can see, it got a new refractor at some point. This fixture was FILTHY! Full of dead wasp nests, dirt, dust, and spiders - both dead and alive.
The lamp is a 2006 Philips Alto and PC is a 2010 Sun-Tech. The fixture was "red capped" in early 2010 and reinstated later that year as part of Cranston's trial of shutting off certain lights. That's why the PC is newer than the lamp.
I passed this fixture almost every day of my life. It hasn't worked for years so I thought the ignitor was junk but turns out the fixture is just fine! Just needs a really good cleaning. BTW the black stuff on the housing is mold. I took some bleach-filled paper towels to the exterior of the light and burned all the mold right off, revealing an almost perfect paint job underneath. As you can see from the streetivew link, the light was pretty much under the tree canopy so the paint was protected from intense sunlight.
This light and its arm were removed off the pole and stood up against the pole with tape for some reason. NGrid does that since they no longer own the light. But I dunno why they had to remove it though. they usually onlt do that with pole renewals. At any rate, it was probably slated for re-installation but Cranston is going LED so this would have gotten scrapped anyway (though the arm would have been reused). So I suppose I should have left this but I see it as rescuing the light since it was slated for LED'ing in the next month or two.
I've seen this done a couple of times before and never took those lights, though they ended up disappearing within a day or two (tape left on the pole) so I assume someone else took those to either sell on Craigslist or more likely, to scrap. But I'm pretty sure NGrid's plan is to reinstall the lights.
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![My New Addition: 1990 Series 113
[url=https://www.google.com/maps/@41.7566449,-71.4930888,3a,66.2y,92.15h,94.45t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s1b3QKjOYLnv-avg7xWhfcw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en] This light was installed on this pole. [/url] As you can see, it got a new refractor at some point. This fixture was FILTHY! Full of dead wasp nests, dirt, dust, and spiders - both dead and alive.
The lamp is a 2006 Philips Alto and PC is a 2010 Sun-Tech. The fixture was "red capped" in early 2010 and reinstated later that year as part of Cranston's trial of shutting off certain lights. That's why the PC is newer than the lamp.
I passed this fixture almost every day of my life. It hasn't worked for years so I thought the ignitor was junk but turns out the fixture is just fine! Just needs a really good cleaning. BTW the black stuff on the housing is mold. I took some bleach-filled paper towels to the exterior of the light and burned all the mold right off, revealing an almost perfect paint job underneath. As you can see from the streetivew link, the light was pretty much under the tree canopy so the paint was protected from intense sunlight.
This light and its arm were removed off the pole and stood up against the pole with tape for some reason. NGrid does that since they no longer own the light. But I dunno why they had to remove it though. they usually onlt do that with pole renewals. At any rate, it was probably slated for re-installation but Cranston is going LED so this would have gotten scrapped anyway (though the arm would have been reused). So I suppose I should have left this but I see it as rescuing the light since it was slated for LED'ing in the next month or two.
I've seen this done a couple of times before and never took those lights, though they ended up disappearing within a day or two (tape left on the pole) so I assume someone else took those to either sell on Craigslist or more likely, to scrap. But I'm pretty sure NGrid's plan is to reinstall the lights.
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My New Addition: 1990 Series 113
[url=https://www.google.com/maps/@41.7566449,-71.4930888,3a,66.2y,92.15h,94.45t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s1b3QKjOYLnv-avg7xWhfcw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en] This light was installed on this pole. [/url] As you can see, it got a new refractor at some point. This fixture was FILTHY! Full of dead wasp nests, dirt, dust, and spiders - both dead and alive.
The lamp is a 2006 Philips Alto and PC is a 2010 Sun-Tech. The fixture was \"red capped\" in early 2010 and reinstated later that year as part of Cranston's trial of shutting off certain lights. That's why the PC is newer than the lamp.
I passed this fixture almost every day of my life. It hasn't worked for years so I thought the ignitor was junk but turns out the fixture is just fine! Just needs a really good cleaning. BTW the black stuff on the housing is mold. I took some bleach-filled paper towels to the exterior of the light and burned all the mold right off, revealing an almost perfect paint job underneath. As you can see from the streetivew link, the light was pretty much under the tree canopy so the paint was protected from intense sunlight.
This light and its arm were removed off the pole and stood up against the pole with tape for some reason. NGrid does that since they no longer own the light. But I dunno why they had to remove it though. they usually onlt do that with pole renewals. At any rate, it was probably slated for re-installation but Cranston is going LED so this would have gotten scrapped anyway (though the arm would have been reused). So I suppose I should have left this but I see it as rescuing the light since it was slated for LED'ing in the next month or two.
I've seen this done a couple of times before and never took those lights, though they ended up disappearing within a day or two (tape left on the pole) so I assume someone else took those to either sell on Craigslist or more likely, to scrap. But I'm pretty sure NGrid's plan is to reinstall the lights.
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Check the description, it says the lamp is a 2006 Philips Alto. There is also another picture of the lamp
@ Ryan: LOL no I made sure no one was around. It was about 8:30 at night. I had parked in front of the pole with my hazards on and when a vehicle came by I just pretended to be checking out my car tires. I rolled down the passenger's window and tossed it in head-first into my backseat. The pole-end of the arm stuck out my passenger window about a foot and a half. This is like 5 minutes from my house so I just drove straight home after I retrieved it.
I would be worried about what could be inside the light. Who knows what kind of pests could be inside, especially alive. Not only bugs or spiders but birds, snakes, rats. If something was inside the light and crawled out and I saw it or felt it when I'm driving I would crash my car
I did it once before. I was making a left turn at a light and saw a spider drop from my steering wheel column between my legs and I ended up hitting the curb. There's some road construction going on a few miles from my house and they have taken down a number of aluminum streetlight poles. The arms/lights are laying down in the ditch along side the road. A few different fixtures, FCO AEL 325's, and G.E. M400A2's for sure. They are longer arms though. Possibly 10 feet or more. So I won't be taking those lol. I don't like stealing but sometimes I can't control it. I think they may be getting re-installed anyways. I think they just removed them to put in a sidewalk and then they are possibly just moving them back. They're probably not 120V because these are all controlled on a relay. Probably 240V or something. They're probably MT ballasts though.
Normally I would NOT take the light right off the side of the road since I know it was intended to be installed on the new pole but because I knew the road was going to be LED'ed in the near future, I figured "Eh what the heck" and saved the light from being scrapped. Of course, I have the arm too, but I wasn't going to waste time removing the light off the arm and more than likely within a couple days someone else would have grabbed it to scrap it. IMO they should tape the lights to the pole a good 10ft up or so. Low enough so they're not near any lines but high enough where people can't grab them (unless they're really desperate and use an extension ladder, but no one in their right mind would go through that kind of trouble for $10 worth of scrap aluminum).
I've seen a few fixtures taped to poles but haven't taken those but every time NGrid does this, the light magically disappears within a couple days (and not by me!). Of course, when they do this in a more urban area, what do they expect? If someone leaves any kind of scrap metal within reach in an urban area it disappears, even in broad daylight! Providence had issues with people stealing traffic signs from neighborhoods in broad daylight! People stealing stop signs from 4-way intersections and streetname signs and removing No Parking signs and speed limit signs. People will do anything for a buck. At least my intentions were to save the light and not make a buck off of it. In hindsight I probably shouldn't have taken this, though it is a "memory lane" light.
I'm sure you guys saw, but this light cleaned up quite nicely!
I would like to find more lights on the ground to "save". Preferably on 6 foot arms so it would be easier to put in my car. I am trying not to do that anymore though. I usually feel guilty after I do something like that now. Sometimes I can't control it though
It may be a bad idea for me to do that now. Since there's that guy there who knows me.