Me (on right) with Dave - silverliner, met up as he received his birthday gift, as well as various HID, fluorescent, and incandescent bulbs that I had saved.
It was an awesome meet up, it was so nice of him to give me my latest toy, the teardrop I was holding in the pic. I also received a bunch of bulbs he saved up for me, fluorescent lamps, HID lamps, and incandescent traffic signal lamps. We met in an area of LA known as Van Nuys in the San Fernando Valley.
That teardrop was once used by the city of Long Beach. It was originally incandescent, later converted to LPS. They all went in the LPS to HPS conversion in '96-'98. This teardrop currently lacks a socket.
Wow looks like fun! The tear drop Dave, you got, got looks like a GE? It's cool to meet up! I never met Dave in person, but we talked alot via video chat!
The NEMA head looks similar to my gumball one...my gumball does not have any markings on it, same for my 1962 MV GE nema head, but it had a GE on the label......the NEMA head you have has a different slipfitter than mine though......
I'm glad you found out. There was a sticker that had "2" which meant 2500 lumen lamp. This was on a 6.6A series system. these were installed in the early 50s.
These teardrops were originally installed by SCE in the city of Long Beach. They were installed on fluted steel light poles in residential areas with overhead wiring. In the early 80s the city of Long Beach bought these lights from SCE and converted them to LPS. In '96-'98 a contractor replaced all of them with HPS M-250A2s and rewired the circuitry from series to multiple.
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Or you could stick a MV in it!