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Nameplate of the 1992 M-250R2 Here's the nameplate of the 1992 M-250R2. This thing is FILTHY. It only appears to have been used for a short amount of time (few years maybe) but in that time it managed to get a bird's nest in the refractor (lens was broken) and possibly inside too since it's FILLED with dirt, spiderwebs, wasp nests, dead bugs, pieces of straw, etc. (nothing alive inside fortunately). This was one of the last M-250R2s made before the flat-door model rolled out in very late 1992/beginning of 1993) Keywords: American_Streetlights

Nameplate of the 1992 M-250R2

Here's the nameplate of the 1992 M-250R2. This thing is FILTHY. It only appears to have been used for a short amount of time (few years maybe) but in that time it managed to get a bird's nest in the refractor (lens was broken) and possibly inside too since it's FILLED with dirt, spiderwebs, wasp nests, dead bugs, pieces of straw, etc. (nothing alive inside fortunately). This was one of the last M-250R2s made before the flat-door model rolled out in very late 1992/beginning of 1993)

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Album name:Mike / My General Electric M-250R2 (1992)
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joe_347V   [Feb 06, 2017 at 07:31 AM]
Nice! just a month off from my birthday lol.
streetlight98   [Feb 06, 2017 at 12:20 PM]
That's awesome! I'd love to come across a cobrahead made during or near May 1998 but no luck yet. Closest I've come is 1997 for cobraheads or June 1998 for my Holophane highbays.
joe_347V   [Feb 06, 2017 at 11:56 PM]
Yeah, I have a track light track made in September 1992 that's on the dot but nothing in terms of lamps and fixtures. Closest cobrahead is my R47 which was made in August 1993 although they were made in 1992 too.
streetlight98   [Feb 09, 2017 at 03:24 AM]
I have a DTL photocell from 1998 but I forget the year. BTW, this M-250R2 has been cleaned out and is now installed in my room. Fortunately starting in the 80s, GE began painting both the inside and outside of their lights (prior to the 80s, only the outside was painted; inside was raw aluminum) so this light came nice and clean. Lots of dirt, small leaves, dead wasps, dead bugs, and bird (...) caked on the inside of the door and the upper housing was full of dirt, dust, spiderwebs, honeycomb nests from paper wasps, more dead bugs, etc. And on top of it all, one god-awful stench lol. I filled a ~3 gallon bucket with hot water from the tap and gave the light a spongebath in the garage (too cold outside) and it's as good as new! Ballast is insanely quiet too. I expected it to be noisier since the fixture was so filthy. Even when first firing up the thing is almost silent. The powerflood on the other hand is a buzzbox, which is true of most GE 200-400W HPS "auto-reg" ballasts.
HPSM250R2   [Feb 09, 2017 at 12:12 PM]
You have a DTL photocell from 1998 but you forget the year? Laughing
I don't think my 150 watt M250R2 is painted inside. Just some "overspray" from when they painted the outside.
streetlight98   [Feb 09, 2017 at 08:49 PM]
The month... When was your M-250R2 made? Every M-250R2 I've ever had has been painted inside. 1985, 1992, 2001, 2002, 2016 (geeze I have a lot of M-250R2s lol) as well as all my 80s-present GE lights. My 1987 M-250A2 FCO, 1997 M-400A2, 2009 M-400, and I think my M-250CF from 1981. None of my pre-80s GEs are painted inside though, which means the insides don't wash clean; in order to get them clean you need to just repaint them.
HPSM250R2   [Feb 10, 2017 at 01:39 AM]
It was made in 2013. I'm looking at it as I type this. There is very little paint inside. It does look like it's just overspray. I can see the aluminum.
streetlight98   [Feb 10, 2017 at 03:47 AM]
Hmm weird. Even the 2012 roadkill M-250R2 I just got has paint on the inside (and I'm talking about fully painted the same as the outside). Maybe yours is a factory mess-up? Were your other R2s painted on the inside? None of my Coopers are painted on the inside and neither of my American Electrics are painted inside and I don't think newer AELs are painted inside either.
joe_347V   [Feb 10, 2017 at 06:42 AM]
Interesting that they pre 80s GEs were left bare on the inside. I thought they painted them when GE first started using grey paint. I guess my Crimefighter was originally bare inside though.
streetlight98   [Feb 10, 2017 at 03:45 PM]
Yep they left the insides bare in the 60s and 70s. My M-100s, M-250R, M-250A, both M-400 split door, my 1971 M-250R1. I think the 1974 M-250R1 I have is actually painted on the inside now that I think about it, so they might have started painting the inside around 1974.

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