Sunsets and Night Scenes - More Mercs at Night

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Filename:	100_2186.JPG
Album name:	joe_347V / Sunsets and Night Scenes
Keywords:	American_Streetlights
Company and Date Manufactured:	Powerlite Devices
Model Number:	BC2227S
Wattage:	175w
Lamp Type:	Mercury vapour
Filesize:	91 KiB
Date added:	Dec 18, 2011
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DateTime Original:	2011:12:17 21:03:02
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streetlight98

[Dec 18, 2011 at 03:01 PM]

Nice. My grandparents' street looks like this except with 100w M-250R and M-250A and most of the lamps were likely put in about 15-20 years ago. I HAVE seen NGrid relamping some instead of replacing, but most continue to burn very dim lamps.

joe_347V

[Dec 18, 2011 at 11:36 PM]

Thanks, you'd be hard pressed to find a street like this nowadays in the Toronto area, most of the mercs were replaced/converted with HPS.

streetlight98

[Dec 19, 2011 at 01:11 AM]

Here any mercs left (which isn't many, but a good amount compared to other states and provinces) have the origional gear and all mercs here (excpet for the one or two 100w MV 113 and 100w MV M-250A2 FCO) were installed before the 80's. There are about 7 400w mercury M-400 at the Veterans Memorial Ice Rink in Cranston. There are no thumb latchs and only one or two still work. I'm sure they won't be serviced any time soon, but I'd rather have them stay the way they are tham risk them getting taken down. NGrid doesn't service any mercs over 175 watts. Sad

joe_347V

[Dec 19, 2011 at 02:04 AM]

I've not sure if any of these are have been serviced recently and the lead one is dayburning.

streetlight98

[Dec 19, 2011 at 02:18 AM]

The first one looks like it has a new lamp from the color and amount of light unless it's a camera trick...

joe_347V

[Dec 19, 2011 at 02:20 AM]

This is the same light. Razz

streetlight98

[Dec 19, 2011 at 02:30 AM]

Ahh. Looks dim in the daytime pic. Razz

joe_347V

[Dec 19, 2011 at 03:15 AM]

Well I think it was tad brighter and it wasn't greened out.

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Gallery of Lights

More Mercs at Night

Here's a night shot showing the string of mercs taken from the same angle as the day shot. The lumes are all 1970s era Powerlite B2227s with 175w /DX lamps.

Looking back:

Gallery of Lights

More Mercs at Night

Here's a night shot showing the string of mercs taken from the same angle as the day shot. The lumes are all 1970s era Powerlite B2227s with 175w /DX lamps. Looking back:

Here's a night shot showing the string of mercs taken from the same angle as the day shot. The lumes are all 1970s era Powerlite B2227s with 175w /DX lamps.

Looking back: