yeah a 3 or 4 lamp preheat shoplight would be an awesome score!
And nope no updates on the preheaters. I haven't seen my aunt and uncle since then. I haven't given them a second pair of lamps and starters yet either. Tomorrow is my brother's birthday so we'll be having a party. I'll be using my lights too. This yeah the M-250a up on its pole will light the yard along with my 175W Mv Ov-10 and 175W MV M-250R1. I'll post a collage of pics after the party.
and yeah a LOT of lights I reported! lol. I'm keeping track of them on a hand-drawn sketch of the interchange with dots for the light poles with the pole numbers next to them (pole numbers i looked at google streetview for). Lights i reported i highlighted blue. Lights they confirmed I circled in orange. missing poles are marked as a pink highlighted X instead of a dot. And lights that get fixed will get either a dash or will get colored in red. Lights that i don't get a email confirmation I'll resubmit an outage report and lights that were confirmed but don't get fixed I'll do the same. I'll keep on their case until all but maybe 2 or 3 work.
Some of the lights have baby blue PCs which were only used in the early 90s here which means thse fixtures have their original lamps and were never serviced. Some even have cream/light gray photocells which were used from the 60s up to the early 90s. This means the original HPS lights installed at that interchange were installed probably around 1989-1991.
There are at least 15 missing poles too and there are some big gaps too becuase of that. Knockdowns typically slip under the radar with them. I've been trying to get one pole in particular replaced and the base is as visible as can be yet they haven't replaced it YET. I've reported 15-20 missing poles in this batch of reports (same interchange) but i don't have high hopes of seeing them replaced.
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