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BIG craigslist score
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Remember that post I made about the 400w HPS Unistyle 400's I found on craigslist? The seller said they also had "2 similar mercury vapor fixtures with bad lamps". So I went to the store where the lights were and asked to see the lights so I could pick out one to buy. Well, they took me to the back room where they had the pile, and on top of it were these 2 175w mercury vapor AEL 113's. I was shocked since I have always wanted one of these, and I was NOT expecting to get not one but 2 of these today. As you can see, the one on the right has a half-missing NEMA tag, and that one also had a MASSIVE wasp nest inside it. (fortunately no live inhabitants lol) and the one on the right has a filthy gasket. These included 2 EXTREMELY blackened GE 175w /DX lamps, and I have tested 1 so far and it doesn't appear to work (but then again, they are so dimmed out that maybe I just need to let them warm up). Needless to say, I am still somewhat in shock since I was NOT expecting to find these. The place still has the Unistyle 400's in storage (it's a refurbished and used tool store) and so I might go back again sometime. They said the lights in storage aren't going to be going anywhere unless someone buys them all. Also, while I was there, I noticed that the parking lot had LED lights on vintage looking poles. They told me the parking lot was originally lit with the Unistyle lights (they were surprisingly quite knowledgeable about them, even knew the manufacturer and everything) and they were happy with them, until Xcel Energy (who I refer to as "Evil big bubby") came in and told them about a discount for a downgrade to LEDisease and if they didn't they would start getting billed 4% more on power bills. So, they reluctantly took the bait. When I asked about where these 2 came from, it was from a corner of the lot and they had noticed how dim they were but they didn't do anything about it since they just thought they were really inefficient and were always that dim. I told them tha
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Can you post pics of the insides of these 113's?