Another quality installation in Boston.

Brilliant! Whoever thought of this installation design is a pure genious. It's worth .... um ... a laugh.

looks like a big steaming pile of dog fudge.

It has a new Sun-Tech photocontrol cause it has the green window

Oh great more sloppy wiring.

Is the whole pole taped up?

Incandescent? This is just tacky looking.

AND it's dayburning, even with the new PC! Plus, it looks very strange!

(Knocks down pole and puts up a new CMH 115)

(Replaces 115 with NOS 175w MV Powerlite B2227)

I wouldn't mind either personally, both are better than this mess!

(Puts 115 back on pole and takes B2227 home)

(goes to the US put up a crapy cosmopall streetlight and takes the 115 back home to the UK)

Crappy Cosmopolis? Those are very good lamps from what I understand, I wish they would put them up over LED and induction!

the ballast that run them go caboom in less than a year watt is more planit frendly : having 2 replace a streetlight evry year or stick a MV streetlight with a good MV lamp and not have 2 tuch it for the next 40 years

Do the lamps die or is it the ballast? Sure mercs would be nice but that's no longer an option.

its the ballasts that die. well I know you can not get probe start MH streetlights eny more but the PSMH ballasts from 175-1000W are the same as Probe start ballast ecsept they have an ignitor so you can get a PSMH streetlight remove the ignitore and run an MV lamp

Sure you can, but no area is going to be converting all of their streetlights to mercury, that is the reason I would prefer CMH. You can also get magnetic ballasted CMH which would work better and last longer.

I always love the quality Boston puts in their Streetlight Installations.

My guess is the ballast died so they just put an incandescent in there...