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Label Close-up Here's the labels on Darren's M-400A2. These are real labels, courtesy of Joe when I visited him at Vaughan Mills in Ontario (well actually, these were mailed to me afterwards). Because of a label company error, he ended up with two orders worth of labels, as one of the 32s got smudged so I got four of the McCann Lighting labels. One is inside the fixture on the top housing and I decided to stick the second REFURBISHED FIXTURE label on the outside of the door like older Canadian fixtures have. I plan to do the same thing with my M-400A2. Right now my M-400A2 still has the original "40" NEMA tag since I was planning on converting it back to 400W HPS but I think I'll just leave it at 320W PSMH... Keywords: Gear

Label Close-up

Here's the labels on Darren's M-400A2. These are real labels, courtesy of Joe when I visited him at Vaughan Mills in Ontario (well actually, these were mailed to me afterwards). Because of a label company error, he ended up with two orders worth of labels, as one of the 32s got smudged so I got four of the McCann Lighting labels. One is inside the fixture on the top housing and I decided to stick the second REFURBISHED FIXTURE label on the outside of the door like older Canadian fixtures have. I plan to do the same thing with my M-400A2. Right now my M-400A2 still has the original "40" NEMA tag since I was planning on converting it back to 400W HPS but I think I'll just leave it at 320W PSMH...

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lite_lover   [Sep 05, 2014 at 05:08 AM]
The labels look awesome! Cool
Mercuryvapor123   [Sep 05, 2014 at 05:26 AM]
Very nice!! Very Happy
streetlight98   [Sep 05, 2014 at 11:59 AM]
Yeah Joe did a great job having these made for me. Cool
joe_347V   [Sep 05, 2014 at 05:58 PM]
Nice! looks good on the M-400A2!
GEsoftwhite100watts   [Sep 05, 2014 at 06:42 PM]
Which is brighter, 400w HPS or 320w PSMH?
LilCinnamon   [Sep 05, 2014 at 07:25 PM]
The label looks very professional. You could do a lighting company! You have those skills, definitely.
streetlight98   [Sep 05, 2014 at 08:56 PM]
@ Joe; Thanks! Yeah looks great. Smile
@ Andy; 400W HPs is 50000 lumens and 320W PSMH is around 31000 lumens so 400W HPS is brighter but 320W PSMH is better color light so the PSMH is probably just as effective in a parking lot. 400W PSMH is about the same as 400W HPS, at about 41000 lumens, but PSMH suffers a greater lumen depreciation than HPS. Both lumens and lumen depreciation can be fixed by using CMH lamps though.

Originally the lot was all 1000W MV, which is 58000 lumens, but over time they installed some 250 and 400W HPS and then 400W probe start MH, then 320W PSMH and they converted all the lights to 320W PSMH. So by the time they converted them all to 320W PSMH, the lot was very dim and poorly lit. As much as I love seeing cobrahead-lit parking lots, this one desperately needed a lighting upgrade.
@ Ian; Thanks. Very Happy The NEMA tag was made using the existing 400W HPS tag on the M-400A2 so it's an exact match. I made it all red since the first PSMH GEs with this style tag were all red, though the M-400A2 itself was never made in PSMH. And to be honest, the all-red tag looks better than the half-n-half one.
NiMo   [Jul 31, 2017 at 02:25 AM]
Only thing is PSMH has half red/half white tags.
streetlight98   [Jul 31, 2017 at 03:59 PM]
Not the originals! they were red just like normal MH labels. Wink There were some AEL-style M-400s in the same parking lot from the early 2000s that had NEMA tags identical to this.
NiMo   [Jul 31, 2017 at 04:24 PM]
Then this must have been changed over the last few years so that standard MH and PSMH would not get mixed up.
ZarlogH46   [Aug 01, 2017 at 02:48 AM]
I saw a GE M400R2 powerdoor (the kind that looks like an M400R3) that had a solid red "20" label a while ago. It was installed on a road with 250w HPS and it lit the road about as well as the HPS did.
streetlight98   [Aug 01, 2017 at 03:05 AM]
@ NiMo: Yeah they changed it sometime in the mid-2000s. Ironically in 2009 probe start MH fixtures were banned so they could have gone back to the solid red but I guess they still don't want to confuse them with existing MH cobraheads, even though there aren't many.

@ Zarlog: There is no M-400R3 or M-400A3. It's the M-400 and M-400A. 200W PSMH is a weird wattage for a cobrahead.

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