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Cooper OVW, Texas Edition. Here are some better pictures of my lights from Dallas... So I went to Dallas today, last week I got a couple new lights on ebay, a cooper OVW and an American Electric 115. I decided to just go down to Dallas to just pick them up at the place they were instead of having them shipped. Plus since I love the Dallas area and eventually want to move there, I just took the lights as an excuse to go down there because I already wanted a trip to Dallas before I move and I had two days off with the day prior an early shift and free hotel stays. So I decided to go. Originally, I just wanted to get the OVW, since I love Texas for being so unique, from road signs, to streetlights, to infrastructure too, I wanted the OVW. And I plan to keep it totally original. So I took a trip down to pick up the lights. Now here is the information on this picture: Here is the Cooper OVW, Texas Edition. I got this from the same seller as the other one that Ryan got, and someone else on here got too... The price was 60 dollars for this baby and also I just wanted to get the light in Dallas instead of getting it shipped since Dallas isn't all too far from me. This was in a big warehouse, and when I got to the ramp the package was all ready for me to pick up at the door. Now it's in my car while I type this at my hotel in Mt. Pleasant. (I took the picture at a friend's lawn in Forney, Texas) This light is cool, I will be able to take better pictures of it when I get home, I just cut the paper off cause I don't want it in there anyway, the only part of the light that I don't plan on keeping original. I need to rewire the ballast to get it to 240 volts so I can fire it up from time to time. I don't want to replace the ballast though because I want this to be original, With the leveling bubble and everything. The light itself came with a shorting cap, and the lamp as well. The date is 2006, I can't believe this is actually that old... Oh my. I wonder why Texas DOT liked to special order these, in fact they special ordered everything I am sure, the GE Tigers I occasionally see, the new GE M-400 R2s... The M-400R3 sag lens and cuttoff, the Cooper OVY/OVF... Any of them really, I even saw some old AE model 25's with a bubble on it kinda like this but older on TXDOT truss arms.. beats me. Overall this is a great light, and with the love I have for the uniqueness of the state of Texas, This is a nice addition. Not to mention on the way to pick this up and on the way back I saw these littered on truss arms on the freeways in the state, hehe. Keywords: American_Streetlights

Cooper OVW, Texas Edition.

Here are some better pictures of my lights from Dallas...

So I went to Dallas today, last week I got a couple new lights on ebay, a cooper OVW and an American Electric 115. I decided to just go down to Dallas to just pick them up at the place they were instead of having them shipped. Plus since I love the Dallas area and eventually want to move there, I just took the lights as an excuse to go down there because I already wanted a trip to Dallas before I move and I had two days off with the day prior an early shift and free hotel stays. So I decided to go. Originally, I just wanted to get the OVW, since I love Texas for being so unique, from road signs, to streetlights, to infrastructure too, I wanted the OVW. And I plan to keep it totally original. So I took a trip down to pick up the lights. Now here is the information on this picture:

Here is the Cooper OVW, Texas Edition. I got this from the same seller as the other one that Ryan got, and someone else on here got too... The price was 60 dollars for this baby and also I just wanted to get the light in Dallas instead of getting it shipped since Dallas isn't all too far from me. This was in a big warehouse, and when I got to the ramp the package was all ready for me to pick up at the door. Now it's in my car while I type this at my hotel in Mt. Pleasant. (I took the picture at a friend's lawn in Forney, Texas)

This light is cool, I will be able to take better pictures of it when I get home, I just cut the paper off cause I don't want it in there anyway, the only part of the light that I don't plan on keeping original. I need to rewire the ballast to get it to 240 volts so I can fire it up from time to time.

I don't want to replace the ballast though because I want this to be original, With the leveling bubble and everything.

The light itself came with a shorting cap, and the lamp as well. The date is 2006, I can't believe this is actually that old... Oh my.

I wonder why Texas DOT liked to special order these, in fact they special ordered everything I am sure, the GE Tigers I occasionally see, the new GE M-400 R2s... The M-400R3 sag lens and cuttoff, the Cooper OVY/OVF... Any of them really, I even saw some old AE model 25's with a bubble on it kinda like this but older on TXDOT truss arms.. beats me.

Overall this is a great light, and with the love I have for the uniqueness of the state of Texas, This is a nice addition. Not to mention on the way to pick this up and on the way back I saw these littered on truss arms on the freeways in the state, hehe.

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ZarlogH46   [Jul 27, 2017 at 02:18 PM]
Looks like a gray FCO silverliner.
streetlight98   [Jul 27, 2017 at 11:30 PM]
It essentially is. This is the same casting the Canadian OV-25s used. They used a normal OV-25 reflector though, not the OVF reflector.
LilCinnamon   [Jul 28, 2017 at 03:07 PM]
A couple other differences too, it seems they decided to be more premium on these fixtures as opposed to just a normal run of the mill OVF, the gasket is actually a rubber silicon or something, instead of a foam one, it has the gasket around the lamp, they sealed the glass in the door I guess to prevent moisture or bugs, and also, the ballast inside, looks like it is a weird form of bracket, you can unscrew the 4 screws inside and unhook the plug, and re-arrange the wires and you could take the entire ballast out cause the ballast components, the capacitors and the ignitors are hooked on the little tray that is screwed in by 4 screws. Really nice light, even if it's not the original OV-25 we all love, I like that Texas at least didn't go cheap with the lights they use on their DOT roads.
streetlight98   [Jul 28, 2017 at 04:36 PM]
That ballast bracket you describe is Cooper's "Swing-Down Ballast Bridge". It's basically their version of GE's Powr/Door. They offered it on the OVD/Y/F and the OVX. I've never actually seen one with it though. Kinda cool feature.

Ryan has one of these and I remember him saying how well-built these things were. Too bad it's such a far drive for me or I'd grab one and find a drop lens for it, add a PC socket, paint it silver and swap the ballast out for a 400 MH/MV!

I'm also amazed this had threaded rods with nuts instead of just using bolts for the slipfitter. Just like the Westinghouse fixtures!
LilCinnamon   [Jul 29, 2017 at 05:34 AM]
This one doesn't have the ballast bridge. It has 4 screws that hold on the metal assembly that holds all the ballast components, there is no hinge or latch for the ballast parts. You have to take the 4 screws out, and untangle the wires to get it out, so this wasn't meant to have the ballast taken out. Easier than the normal way ballasts are put in but definitely not the ballast bridge, it would be nice if it had that though.

And yeah, I have been talking to him about it, The seller does ship still, he just has it listed at a different option. You would have to see, here is the listing:
CLICK THIS LINK HERE

It already has a PC socket installed, it came with it. The package came with a shorting cap. I guess Texas liked to keep it to have the socket in case of rural areas (which do exist plentiful in that huge state) where they don't use relays for their state lights, or traffic signals, cause I don't think they use relays for the traffic signals, so they order them all alike with the two different voltages depending on where it's located and with a shorting cap and a PC socket in case they need one installed in a place without the need for a single PC relay for multiple lights.

I am keeping this mostly original, as I explained in the post, they are unique, and I like how they are. Maybe if I get a second one I could do that but that is not in the agenda right now, I am running out of space, heh
LilCinnamon   [Jul 30, 2017 at 05:30 AM]
Hmm... I found an interesting link regarding lots of info on TxDOT and their infomration on their fixtures...

https://ftp.dot.state.tx.us/pub/txdot-info/cmd/mpl/riaes.pdf
joe_347V   [Aug 06, 2017 at 04:53 PM]
Nice light! I would like to see how late model Canadian OV-25 compare to these. It seems the Canadian ones kept the original Westinghouse designed reflector as opposed to the Cooperized one used here.
LilCinnamon   [Aug 07, 2017 at 12:08 AM]
I think that Texas DOT was the one who wanted the reflector found in this, because I know for a fact that these models and features are specifically for Texas so I think the configuration of everything, the level on the door, the custom ballast bracket, the disconnect, the rubber gasket (instead of the foam one) the PC socket and the fact that they wanted an OV-25 casting and stuff.

The reflector is mounted by two bracket, and they have sheet metal riveted onto an ordinary OVD/OVF/OVY reflector around the perimiter of the reflector, and the gasket is on that sheet metal and the sheet metal is screwed onto the brackets.

I compared this light to the Canadian OV-25 Darren has and the castings of the door and top housing are exactly the same, identical. From what I saw. Screws were in the same place, same slip fitter configuration, and stuff.

I also wonder if the "OVW" designation.. I kind of wonder if that was only for the texas lights or what, cause on that link above, I only see the OVW designations on the list up there and on the interstates I see plenty of OVF's on the highways there, so I wonder if the older ones were the OV-25 bodies and then the newer ones they used the OVF housings? I kinda wonder that to be honest...

I wouldn't mind seeing a TXDOT OVF uo close, to compare from a normal OVF, cause I am sure the TXDOT OVF will be just as sophisticated as this light...
Form109   [Aug 10, 2017 at 03:27 PM]
i find it incredibly cool that the OV-25 is essentially still alive. do they still make these?
lightingfan8902   [May 05, 2019 at 12:56 AM]
Man, I really want one! Definitely looks alot like a Westinghouse OV-25. Very Happy
Lil'Cinnamon   [May 05, 2019 at 11:20 AM]
I took this picture literally after I retrieved it, Took this at a friend's lawn who lives down in Forney, Texas, soon I will be living in Texas soon and I am looking forward to that.
lightingfan8902   [May 05, 2019 at 01:36 PM]
Houston, or Dallas?
Lil'Cinnamon   [May 06, 2019 at 04:22 PM]
Dallas, probably Denton, I plan to settle down probably near Tyler, Texas. (I believe that's where Form109 lives) with a house in my latter years after I have decent steady job and can afford an acual house I can either build or remodel the heck out of.
ZarlogH46   [May 06, 2019 at 09:43 PM]
Lucky you, I'd love to move to Texas someday.
xmaslightguy   [May 09, 2019 at 01:25 AM]
Cool find Lil'Cinnamon !

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