Here's a shot that I mentioned yesterday about a AE 125 with it's door being taped to the mounting arm and with two wires flying out of the lume, the light looks a lot like a cobra before gulping down on its meal hence the title lol.
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Click to enlarge, you can see the electrical tape strap more clearly in this pic.
I have too but never taped OPEN! I've never seen a light with a glass lens taped up either; just the plastic lens lights get taped, probably becuase they don't want the weight of the refractor making the tape fail.
Wow! Crazy how the traffic signal remains lit the whole time yet the HPS lights went out immediately. I wonder if the vibration shock broke the arc tube welds on the crappy Philips lamps. Or the line wire shorted to the pole and blew the fuse cut-out. But the traffic signal... Usually when a pole gets hit here the intersection will automatically default to flashing red on the main street and flashing yellow on the side street.
Yeah, I was a bit surprised to see the signal still lit as the pole was falling. Seems like the shock from the impact cracked both fixtures and broke off one of the arms too. I wonder if they blew the fuse for the entire circuit, you can see the rest of the string of the lights go out too.
Hmm yeah looks like they took out the whole circuit. Here each pole has its own fuse and then the circuit as a whole is fused at the cabinet with one of those big service disconnects (which RIDOT doesn't even bother sticking a padlock on, so anyone can walk up to the cabinets and turn the freeway lights off lol). NGrid owned freeway lights are wired the same way but instead of having any sort of main cabinet/disconnect, the lights are connected to a pole mount transformer on a wood pole for a nearby cross-street. The transformers have cut-outs on them. One NGrid-lit interchance can have several circuits with different transformers depending on the size. NGrid lights are all 120/240V too! While RIDOT lights I believe are 277V. In the 60s and 70s RIDOT used red 208-277 V PCs on their lights! Then they started using blue 120-277V PCs.
Yeah, I thought our poles were individually fused at the handhole but maybe there's also a main fuse for the whole circuit that blew. I believe the MTO cabinets are locked and have all the service equipment inside so you can't really go up to them and turn off the lights. Even the PC in mounted on a small 10' pole to prevent tampering.
The cabinets here are locked too and there's a small ~5" X ~5" glass window on the side of the cabinet where the photocell "looks" out, so the PC is completely contained. The only thing on the outside of the cabinet is a service disconnect, which has no lock on it. I suppose it's external in case somehow a wire remains live during an automobile accident and the fire/rescue or police who respond can shut the power off. Or they just assume no one will tamper with them. The fire department could also just pull the meter out of the side of the cabinet too if they had to shut the power off. That's what they do with houses...
I guess some of ours do have a service disconnect outside. The meters I believe are inside the cabinet though. The smaller ones are pole mounted and usually have the cabinet on one side of the pole and the meter on the other.
Yeah, lazy lineman I guess. WIth most cobras you don't even need to tie it open, just poke the wire out through the slipfitter area.
In case if any of you are wondering, the wrecked setup got replaced with a almost identical setup, twin 250w HPS drop lens 125s. Toronto is still using HPS for the time being. Amazingly they did a proper job with the wiring this time and buried everything.
Update: I think they replaced the poles at this intersection again and redid the wiring. It's mate got a shorter pole too. Wires got changed to overhead again though.
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![Cobra Striking
Here's a shot that I mentioned yesterday about a AE 125 with it's door being taped to the mounting arm and with two wires flying out of the lume, the light looks a lot like a cobra before gulping down on its meal hence the title lol.
[b]Here's the Bottom View:[/b]
[IMG]https://i.imgur.com/70Vlk2L.jpg[/IMG]
Click to enlarge, you can see the electrical tape strap more clearly in this pic.](albums/userpics/normal_P9120799.JPG "Click to view full size image
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Cobra Striking
Here's a shot that I mentioned yesterday about a AE 125 with it's door being taped to the mounting arm and with two wires flying out of the lume, the light looks a lot like a cobra before gulping down on its meal hence the title lol.
[b]Here's the Bottom View:[/b]
[IMG]https://i.imgur.com/70Vlk2L.jpg[/IMG]
Click to enlarge, you can see the electrical tape strap more clearly in this pic.")
and that crash
Yeah, lazy lineman I guess. WIth most cobras you don't even need to tie it open, just poke the wire out through the slipfitter area.
In case if any of you are wondering, the wrecked setup got replaced with a almost identical setup, twin 250w HPS drop lens 125s. Toronto is still using HPS for the time being. Amazingly they did a proper job with the wiring this time and buried everything.