These are the new LED's installed on Dixie road in Missisauga just north of Dundas. I think it could be a Autobahn or a STR-LWY-1S-HT. The LED's have these weird names. The new LED's m@ spotted in missisauga have also replaced R37's on Winding trail. Notice the 4th box its a dayburning LED. There were a bunch of those too
Yeah it looks like they're basically just a wirelessly controlled relay with some sort of current measuring device inside. (I guess it knows when the lamp is EOL by measuring the current).
I remember reading they could detect quite a few things, cycling and dead lamps and some other electrical issues. Plus they could remotely turn individual lights on and off. It still seems overly complicated, I think good old photo cells work the best.
Yeah I know i don't see anything wrong with PCs. I think they may have done this so they eliminate the need to go up the pole to replace PCs, since they can't replace lamps with LEDs (well LEDs aren't even lamps anyways...). They probably chose this method since it would have been cheaper than rewiring all the lights to relays, more so the wood pole lights than the stand-alone poles. Still, rewiring would have probably been cheaper lol.
Here on the freeways NGrid has been "converting" random strings of lights on I-95 from idividual PCs to relays. they replaced the PCs with shorting caps but they had missed a few. Oddly enough, the lights they accidentally left PCs in still get new PCs upon relamping. And it's completly random so the PCs have nothing to do with the other lights or the relay. you can tell which lights have been repalced since the relay was added because most of them don't have PC receptacles (though a couple every now and then will have PC recepts with intermatic shorting caps).
Near my school, I usually cross the road at the new intersection they've put up that replaced the incandescent LFE 8 inch warning beacons and the X crossing signs. They now also have a LED streetlight similar to these types, but they are smaller and look similar to the Cobra-head lights.
The official reason tons of these are day burning is essentially because they "cannot connect to the network", therefore they engage the most basic state, "ON" by default LOL. Apparently ones installed isolated from wireless network chain of others (many currently) will suffer from this until the full change-out happens by 2014's end. Currently half the city's LED's arew always on. Still waiting on an LED for all the 400W HPS cobras!
Update: This city (Mississauga) is slapping on AEL 115 HPS 250W for spot replacements instead of LEDs (the un-networked dayburner variety). Mississauga's main street, Hurontario St, runs from each end of the city, and has noooooo LED's on it
If anyone is corious I found a 59 page region of Peel street light & signal guide online and one thing I discovered is it mentions the make of this LED, Concept Illumination LRL3.
Thing is with their bloated engineery documents, they include outdated drawings. For example the drawing to mount an "oversized street name" sign shows an old hanger style signal head, and oddly enough they don't use indicated drop bars to mount those signs anymore in either Brampton or mississauga!
Since this is about Dixie LED's and Dixie itself. On Dixie from Derry road to the Brampton/Mississauga border all the streetlights are LED. Steeles and Dixie is no longer using the temporary setup. The wooden poles have gone up on Dixie between Orenda and Clark.
yaman, I'll leave all things Dixie to you, it's not on my side of town too. They seem to be ramping of the LEDs on mississauga arterial roads now. Wonder if they scrapped the 50 or so 2yr old upsweep OVX's on Dixie and Derry.
Those temp signals vanished overnight one day at Steeles and Dixie.
Awaiting to see what lights go on the Brampton Dixie stretch!
Oh yeah, those upsweeps are gone to all except Dixie south of derry and the signal pole lights. I saw the base shafts at Sandalwood and Richvale and Richvale and Kennedy. Notre Dame seems safe still
I hope they use the existing lights for temporary on longer arms.
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Here on the freeways NGrid has been "converting" random strings of lights on I-95 from idividual PCs to relays. they replaced the PCs with shorting caps but they had missed a few. Oddly enough, the lights they accidentally left PCs in still get new PCs upon relamping. And it's completly random so the PCs have nothing to do with the other lights or the relay. you can tell which lights have been repalced since the relay was added because most of them don't have PC receptacles (though a couple every now and then will have PC recepts with intermatic shorting caps).
When I looked at the signal drawings they showed hanger mounted signal heads. Are they switching back to hanger? or is that just a general idea?
I think it may be more likely to be Fortran. Fortran is doing all the traffic lighting there.
Those temp signals vanished overnight one day at Steeles and Dixie.
Awaiting to see what lights go on the Brampton Dixie stretch!
I hope they use the existing lights for temporary on longer arms.