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Cooper Lighting OVW
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Here is the newest addition to my collection. A Cooper Lighting OVW. I wanted one of these for quite some time now because it's very similar to a Westinghouse OV-25. Although it's been "Cooperized" in several ways. One obvious change would be the door hinge. The door latch is also different. I still like them though because they look similar enough to a Westinghouse OV-25 Silverliner. It's 240/480V. So I probably won't be firing this up unless I used the dryer outlet. I'm thinking of taking the bubble level off and the paper that covers the electrical gear inside.
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Your lucky to live in a area where they use these OVW's. It would be nice to see them here in Florida. Too bad Cooper Lighting only makes these for Texas
But I might use it when I get one, for my backyard. But since they're 250w HPS its an overkill for the backyard, so I might convert it to 150w HPS for backyard use. But I might keep the original ballast for testing 250w HPS lamps. And heck, if I'm lucky I might get a trussarm, with the brackets. That would look perfect for the fixture.
Although, you might be right @streetlight98, if they are using the two phases (with no neutral) for the intersection lighting, I have a dryer plug to use it.
I want to keep mine original so I never did want to replace the ballast. I wonder if they still have that ebay auction still up, that's where I got mine, over a year ago, and went down to Dallas and picked it up locally. (I was just in Dallas though two weekends ago)