Nice light. We've never used NEMA heads here but it'd be cool. We don't use AEL here anymore. The last AE lights were installed back in the 80s-90s when T&B still owned AE.
Mercury Nema's are still prevalent on side streets here...though recently those are starting to go as well....AEL's were used alot here a while ago,then for years GE became the prevalent brand...now AEL's are once again becoming popular replacements.
AELs has gone popular in NC, MD, Delaware and NJ in a select electric companies!!! Even the STATE of MD started using AEL Model 325s and some has sag lens!
Here's the funny thing Tony, MD state since the 80s mostly uses smaller fixtures for 250 watt (like 90% of the state lights are 250 watt HPS anyway) and they are either mostly GE M-250R2 FCO or OVX FCO...but now...since just a few months ago..those AE 325s are popping up like crazy...with a few exceptional installations....and some intersection installations have AE 325s with SAG LENS!
That's like the same thing that happened here. The state would either pop up M-250R2, 115, OVZ, and OVX fixtures all at 250 watts. There are also existing OV-15 lights up as well, now the 325's are make a scene.
yes i know he said they were similar....that's not what i was asking...i was Asking if the glass pattern on the original was diffrent and if they offered plastic refractors back then.
I had a GE Form 101 from 1965, it had everything except the PC and Lamp orginal!!! It was a GE Bucket light with VERY BROWN refractor...close bottom and it had a chain attached the the fixture and reflector! Sadly the refractor didn't survive the collection, it was soooooo brittle and very brown with a bit of green in the plastic!
Also the original GE M-250 from 1959-1960 had a plastic refractor!
Plastic gumballs existed too, I have seen browned out gumballs!
I had a GE Form 101 from 1965, it had everything except the PC and Lamp orginal!!! It was a GE Bucket light with VERY BROWN refractor...close bottom and it had a chain attached the the fixture and reflector! Sadly the refractor didn't survive the collection, it was soooooo brittle and very brown with a bit of green in the plastic!
Also the original GE M-250 from 1959-1960 had a plastic refractor!
Plastic gumballs existed too, I have seen browned out gumballs!