and just about all of that remaining 5% would be the Toronto MHs and some LEDs popping up here and there, and just a tiny fraction of 1% would be MV, inc, fluorescent etc.
Yeah sad...i donno how much would be HPS Here, maybe 60%? The rest MV especially all the downtown area of Rochester neighbohoods
A few 400W MV here and there but no old fixtures
Can you get a daytime shot of this? whereabouts it this light? i know of a few 400W MV fixtures around the Providence area and even more near Narragansett and Newport. Unfortunalty most are dimmed if they even work. and yes, NGrid only maintains 100W and 1000W MV fixtures, the former being lamp, PCs and occasionally refractors and the latter being nothing more than the PC. If more than a PC is bad on a 1000W MV floodlight, it's replaced by a 400W HPS PF-400 floodlight that could probably fit within the PF-1000 it is repalceing. I have a feeling once NGrid's stock of 100W MV lamps runs dry it'll be 50W HPS light time. Even now there's a chance that a dayburning or out 100W merc will be replaced by a 50W HPS M-250R2 but it's not Company policy.
I'd say if you just consider NGrid and RIDOT lights, we're about 75-80% HPS. Downtown Providence has a bunch of MH acorn post tops (some are even dimmed and greened out MVs!). RIDOT lights are about 95% HPS. Any mercs on the freeways here are 400W and aren't serviced by NGrid so they're missouts or disconnected. Wood pole lights RI is about 65-75% HPS. Many mercs are found in the waterfront areas such as parts of Narragansett, most of Newport and Middletown, and a few missouts in the ghetto sections of Providence. (hell it's all ghetto, i'm sorry to say!) Low wattage mercs are actually more common in Pawtucket, Scituate, and Cranston from what I've seen, though Middletown is actually mostly MV. We even have incandescents in Jamestown! There were deals made with Jamestown back when Narragansett Electric was first pushing the use of electric streetlighting (for instance there would be a flat fee of $5 a year for the light for ever) and thoe rates have been grandfathered down even today for whatever the reason! So NGrid has found it cheaper to just keep the incandescents up and charge them the flat rate whatever it may be (i dobut it's still $5 lol)
Sorry to tell you but this is not what I have seen. In the town my dad lives in 15% are MV and alot are 250 and 400 and they all still get new MV bulbs.
In Smithfield? I haven't seen ANY merc in Smithfield. BTW, if it's RI then they're not 250W since Narragansett Electric oddly enough didn't use 250W MV except for maybe a few VERY old Form 109s or whatever that were probably replaced with either 100 or 250W HPS. NGrid does not use new MV lamps in any wattage other than 100W. Some MV lamps looks as bright as new even though they're 30+ years old because they're either BonusLine or Lifegard lamps.
@ Dave; yep Greenville is part of Smithfield. The ITT is near I-295? If so it was replaced IIRC... Either that or it was a M-400 split door (250W HPS) I don't remember which...
@ Bryan; can you get a pic? This is new stuff to me! I was unaware of any 250W mercs! Since there are no 150W HPS i was under the assumption there were no 250W mercs since 100W HPS seems a bit dim for 250w MV and 250W HPS seems a bit bright for 250W MV.
It's 50/50 i guess. I don't know everything that went on in the electric co's heads. If you saw a 25 tag maybe it was a HPS? I actually saw a blue "5" on a new M-250R2 installed in Chepachet. It should've been a yellow 5 since 50W MV was never used in cobraheads, especially not in 2012! I love learning new things so i'm kind of hoping I'm wrong about there being no 250W mercs. I've been trying to find a 250W merc forever.
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A few 400W MV here and there but no old fixtures
I'd say if you just consider NGrid and RIDOT lights, we're about 75-80% HPS. Downtown Providence has a bunch of MH acorn post tops (some are even dimmed and greened out MVs!). RIDOT lights are about 95% HPS. Any mercs on the freeways here are 400W and aren't serviced by NGrid so they're missouts or disconnected. Wood pole lights RI is about 65-75% HPS. Many mercs are found in the waterfront areas such as parts of Narragansett, most of Newport and Middletown, and a few missouts in the ghetto sections of Providence. (hell it's all ghetto, i'm sorry to say!) Low wattage mercs are actually more common in Pawtucket, Scituate, and Cranston from what I've seen, though Middletown is actually mostly MV. We even have incandescents in Jamestown! There were deals made with Jamestown back when Narragansett Electric was first pushing the use of electric streetlighting (for instance there would be a flat fee of $5 a year for the light for ever) and thoe rates have been grandfathered down even today for whatever the reason! So NGrid has found it cheaper to just keep the incandescents up and charge them the flat rate whatever it may be (i dobut it's still $5 lol)
Here in Calfornia most mercs are still serviced.
@ Bryan; can you get a pic? This is new stuff to me! I was unaware of any 250W mercs!
So 10% I am right