Was moved on a new pole!

Hopefully it stays when they come back to fix it. If it's 100W odds are it'll stay up but if it's 175W it'll get replaced when they come back within the next two weeks. Since NGrid uses different people to service streetlights than they do for renewing poles, the people renewing the poles have to report the light as a dayburner. that's usually why damaged, non-working, or dayburning lights get transferred. If the light is very badly damaged they may either install just the arm on the new pole or trash the arm with the fixture.

The new pole is 2 years old.

Was the light dayburning when i was transfered to the new pole?

No.

Ahh that's why. What street is this on? Can you also tell me the city and pole number too if possible? Thanks. I might be able to have it fixed and not replaced.

I will, I will go on google maps

you can't get the pole number from google maps. Don't count the poles since the number you get might not actually be the number on the pole itself.

hughes ave pawtucket ri [the first pole]

is that the actual pole number? If not, they won't fix it. NGrid is very nit-picky when an outage form is filled out. If you leave something blank they don't ever correct the light issue. If you pass this light within the next couple weeks can you check the number on the pole? Thanks. BTW, this is one street over from my mom's mom and step dad's house. They live on Oakland Ave.

I will.

Is this still dayburning?

It's the same thing here. I drive by dayburning lights all the time but can only fix them if we have a service ticket, that way we can properly invoice the town for us servicing the fixture.

yeah i guess that's why when they took out the open caps on the lights here and repowered them they didn't fix the burned out ones. I had to report them after they turned them back on. Interestingly enough, when they shut off the lights if a 175W merc was to be shut off, they replaced the light with a HPS first then open capped the newly installed light.

Sounds like SCE, they wont fix it unless they get a pole #, and if its over 15 years old, it gets replaced. I would like to have a MV ITT like that.

I'd love an AE or ITT 13. I have a 250W HPS ITT13 ballast from George and a 250W MH/Mv Advance ballast. I'd love a silver (or even gray) 60s GE M-250R for my OEM 175W 120/240V MV M-250R ballast. Unlike most people I'm not too big a fan of the orange gasket though. Unfortunatly MV ITT 13s here are pretty uncommon (but more common than the HPS ones, which were one of the first low wattage HPS lights, in 100W) and the 60s M-250Rs are virtually GONE. There's only one or two i know of and they're not in old Narragansett Electric turf, they're in old Western Utilities territory. (NGrid owns it all now.)

ahh here if it's HPS it'll get fixed no matter what it's age is but if it's a merc if it's not 100W it'll get replaced (unless it's a 1000W MV floodlight, in that case it'll get a photocell and that's the most, not even a lamp) and even with 100W mercs they've been pretty random. Some are fully serviced (new lamp, photocell, and refractor if needed). If the whole street is MV they'll service one that needs servicing but if more than one needs servicing they'll replaced them with HPS or if some of the lights are already HPS they'll switch the mercs that need service to HPS.

And when they switch to HPS they're random too! Usually they'll use 50W HPS but they use 100W HPS for 100W MV replacements too! And even weirder, they MIX 50 and 100W HPS on the SAME stretch of lights! Personally i like it when they use the 100W HPS replacements since it's brighter and the 50W HPS is dimmer than the 100W merc it replaced. I wish they'd use 70W HPS lights but i guess if you have 1000 50W lights and 1000 70W lights that's a 30000 watt difference we're talking about. The 70W HPS isn't much brighter but it seems to light the road so much better since the first HPS lights under Narragansett Electric and the FCO lights in the Blackstone Valley area were 70W HPS and they still get serviced. there are only a couple 150W HPS lights in RI. I could count them on one hand. They were FCO 113s used in one upscale development near me. When of those fails it's replaced either with 100W HPS or 250W HPS. 250W is WAY to much for a residential road! 100W seems better suited but there's no point in carrying 150W lamps for two or three streets in the whole state. They mix the 100 and 250W replacements too! You'll see a couple 100 watters, then a 250W light then down the road a few 250W lights with a 100W light mixed in. Since they spot replace them, it's all mixed in. But once they choose 100 or 250, it'll stay that way.