There are still lots of scenes like this in the coastal towns such as Jamestown and parts of Newport. Incandescents are pretty much all you'd find in Jamestown and Newport may have a few. Newport, Middletown, and Portsmouth have lots of mercs too. The second two have some HPS, but it's 1980s stuff which I like just as much as the mercs too (well maybe not the color but the quality was still there in the 80s). Newport was all mercs, mostly clamshells until the 90s when Newport Electric switched out most of the remaining clamshells with 400W MV M-400s.
Then when NGrid bought them after they bought the parent company of Narragansett and Mass Electric, they changed out almost all of the remaining clamshells with 250W HPS M-250R2s regaurdless of if they worked or not. The MV cobraheads are replaced as the lamps or PC fails though except for the 100W MV cobraheads which are relamped and get a new PC and 100W MV floods which will get a new PC but not a new lamp.
there is still a good number of mercs in Newport. The 400W MVs consist of newish M-400s, OV-25s (both flatdoor and single door), ITT 25, T&B 125, M-400R2, and a couple RLGs IIRC. Possibly others too... Most of the side streets i saw right near the water didn't have lights, but 100W MV cobraheads were used on some of the more inland streets away from the downtown/histortic Newport area. It seems the island towns in RI kept their mercs longer; they weren't owned by Blackstone Valley Electric or Narragansett Electric. The island towns had their own utility called Newport Electric that was owned by the same parent company as Blackstone Valley Electric.
Thanks! There's almost no radial waves left here so I was pretty surprised when I saw this in a back alley. Most alleys in Toronto at lit using either wallpacks, MH gumballs, HPS cobras, or those Holophane bucket lights.
This actually might be a Powerlite radial wave as for who owns it lights an back alley but I usually see city owned lights (Cooper gumball, Holophane HPS bucket etc) lighting up alleys.
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-Nice light!
-Nice arm!
-Nice CFL! (it looks older that's why... possibly a GE compax?)
Then when NGrid bought them after they bought the parent company of Narragansett and Mass Electric, they changed out almost all of the remaining clamshells with 250W HPS M-250R2s regaurdless of if they worked or not. The MV cobraheads are replaced as the lamps or PC fails though except for the 100W MV cobraheads which are relamped and get a new PC and 100W MV floods which will get a new PC but not a new lamp.
there is still a good number of mercs in Newport. The 400W MVs consist of newish M-400s, OV-25s (both flatdoor and single door), ITT 25, T&B 125, M-400R2, and a couple RLGs IIRC. Possibly others too... Most of the side streets i saw right near the water didn't have lights, but 100W MV cobraheads were used on some of the more inland streets away from the downtown/histortic Newport area. It seems the island towns in RI kept their mercs longer; they weren't owned by Blackstone Valley Electric or Narragansett Electric. The island towns had their own utility called Newport Electric that was owned by the same parent company as Blackstone Valley Electric.