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StreetLight #185 - Some Sorta 'HomeMade' Glare Shield?? All I can assume with this one is that the house right behind it complained about the light shining in windows...so the county road-crews went and added this piece of sheetmetal as a glare shield. I've driven by this plenty of times & thought 'I need to get a pic of that thing' , but recently went by, had the camera with me...and wasn't the one driving LOL Location: Coalmine (near Simms), Jefferson County, CO Keywords: American_Streetlights

StreetLight #185 - Some Sorta 'HomeMade' Glare Shield??

All I can assume with this one is that the house right behind it complained about the light shining in windows...so the county road-crews went and added this piece of sheetmetal as a glare shield.

I've driven by this plenty of times & thought 'I need to get a pic of that thing' , but recently went by, had the camera with me...and wasn't the one driving LOL

Location:
Coalmine (near Simms), Jefferson County, CO

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File information
Filename:SL185.jpg
Album name:xmaslightguy / American Streetlights
Keywords:American_Streetlights
Company and Date Manufactured:General Electric
Model Number:M-250R2 ?
Lamp Type:HPS
Filesize:12 KiB
Date added:Oct 14, 2014
Dimensions:378 x 410 pixels
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LilCinnamon   [Oct 14, 2014 at 10:19 PM]
This is actually a legit glareshield, I went by this light today and saw that it was definitely one that is produced, not home made or anything. They put it here because the people who installed the light didn't want to intrude the houses with the light so they put it up, I doubt it was requested, though it might have been.
streetlight98   [Oct 14, 2014 at 11:40 PM]
That's ugly! I don't mind the glare sheilds that look like dog cones but the rest are just odd looking lol. And yep, that's a M-250R2 full cut-off (flat lens).
xmaslightguy   [Oct 15, 2014 at 04:08 AM]
@Lil'Cinnamon:
Interesting...I truly thought they just stuck a piece of sheetmetal up there - because it certainly looks as such LOL

I'm pretty sure it was added, I don't remember it always being there. One day going by I was like 'they added something to that light'
Seeing as how that house right behind it has that big window in line with the light I could see someone complaining...
streetlight98   [Oct 15, 2014 at 11:03 AM]
The utility should just say "buy some curtains". I mean, this light is already FCO to begin with. Here you're S.O.L. if you want a light shield since they don't install them here. And we use drop lens.
xmaslightguy   [Oct 16, 2014 at 01:07 AM]
LOL personally I'd want curtains/blinds just so people couldn't look inside.
Here it seems FCO or Drop Lens is kinda random, I see both being used around (have even seen both at in the same intersection on opposite corners)
streetlight98   [Oct 16, 2014 at 10:31 AM]
same. in some parts of the state FCO anddrop lens is mixed. FCOs are older and drop lens is newer because the old utility company used FCO but NGrid uses drop lens in RI (they use FCO in Massachusetts though which is odd).

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