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StreetLight #195 - More LED Replacements
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Noticed this a week ago...more HPS lights have been replaced by LED.
Along this stretch of highway there were a few different HPS fixtures (I believe mostly AEC LuxMaster 153 & GE M250R2, and a few of the one on the left (LOL didn't notice the electric tape wrapped around it til after I got the pic home))
Now some have been replaced by the LED fixture on the right (atleast its a cobrahead-ish one). Brightness actually seemed ok. It was kinda weird having HPS & LED mixed along the highway though
Location:
C470 (near the Platte River bridge), CO
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On Morrison and C-470, they do have an older M-400 A1 FCO they recently installed that works fine, I believe they used one that they had stored for recycled lights, because before that intersection was all Shoeboxes or Luxmaster lights. Now C-470 is very mixed, and it's very interesting how they aren't consistent AT ALL with how they replace, they are very random, on the Platte Canyon Road intersection ONE of the old black poles with long straight arm is still there, and it's not in a particular place either, it was just random, they didn't replace one pole for some reason. Now it has a Leotek LED on it but the pole is still one of the old ones that was used before. They replaced random lights with the new Leotek LED's, in random places, so you can find an exit interchange with all LED's except for two lights right next to each other which are still shoebox HPS. I have no clue to what they are doing with the road, they just seem to be veeeery random with it.
And there's this one shoebox that's sitting at an angle on its pole rather than facing straight down (& been that way for awhile) I was surprised to see it still like that when I took these pic's, considering not that far away there were LED replacements (they woulda had to drive right by it too)
I remember before the highway even existed (not real well as that was a long time ago...I don't remember what the original lights were since I didn't pay attention back then, other than the color)
LOL back as a kid one thing I clearly remember when they came through my neighborhood & changed out all the nice 'blue' (MV) streetlights for 'yucky orange' (HPS) ones
@Mike:
Its very common here to see random lights along roads. They're even doing it with LEDs installed from day one in some places.
The one on the left (which also got LED'ed at some point) is now gone pole & all (the right one may be too, but I can't remember exactly which light/pole I took a pic of there).. as are plenty of other lights/poles along that stretch of highway. I wonder if they kept the LED lights? or just junked them? (some of which were no more than a year or 2 old)
The ones on the left - no, but on the right yep they still do use poles like that & will pour new concrete bases.
The highway these are on is currently undergoing a major widening project .. maybe when its all done I'll have to go by this spot & get a pic of whatever the new lights are...