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Bottom view of 115. Here you can see the odd NEMA tag. It is half red, half white, and it has a THIRTY TWO on it! Anyone even know what this means? Is it metal halide? What would the wattage be? Keywords: American_Streetlights

Bottom view of 115.

Here you can see the odd NEMA tag.

It is half red, half white, and it has a THIRTY TWO on it!

Anyone even know what this means? Is it metal halide? What would the wattage be?

ov252.jpg ovx.jpg 32.jpg 115fl.jpg ov25~2.jpg
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Filename:32.jpg
Album name:Lil'Cinnamon / American Streetlights
Keywords:American_Streetlights
Company and Date Manufactured:American Electric
Model Number:115
Wattage:???
Lamp Type:???
Filesize:15 KiB
Date added:Oct 26, 2010
Dimensions:480 x 278 pixels
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gailgrove   [Sep 30, 2011 at 03:17 PM]
Uh then those mercury lamps are going to have a very short life on a PSMH ballast Shocked Are you sure they where coated PSMH lamps?
streetlight98   [Sep 30, 2011 at 03:21 PM]
They were most likely coated PMH lamps. MV will work on the PMH ballast without the ignitor though. It might not last as long.
LilCinnamon   [Sep 30, 2011 at 05:35 PM]
They probably took the ignitor out. I know they are MV because the color, I saw them lit at night and all of them even the MV fixture have the same bluish-green color, so I Know they are MV.
streetlight98   [Sep 30, 2011 at 06:11 PM]
MH can have color variations, but they very well could have been mercury vapor.
joe_347V   [Oct 01, 2011 at 02:42 AM]
There's also green tags for HPS in Canada, and I wonder if anyone made MH tags with PRMH for probe start and PSMH abbreviations for pulse start?
streetlight98   [Oct 01, 2011 at 02:45 AM]
PRMH isn't used. I think it's just "MH" and pulse metal halide is "PMH"
joe_347V   [Oct 01, 2011 at 02:46 AM]
PMH always sounded funny to me. Laughing
streetlight98   [Oct 01, 2011 at 02:50 AM]
Why? Razz Laughing When i write the source names i usually use the abbreviation, but when i say the souce name i always say the whole name- even if it'w written as an abreviation. It's just a habbit i have.
gailgrove   [Oct 01, 2011 at 01:00 PM]
As far as I know pulse start metal halide is PSMH, not PMH. If I'm talking I'll usually say "HPS" or "sodium" when talking about high pressure sodium but I'll say "metal halide" when talking about MH, I always say either "mercury" or "mercury vapour" when talking about MV.
streetlight98   [Oct 01, 2011 at 01:11 PM]
Pulse metal halide is "PMH".
gailgrove   [Oct 01, 2011 at 01:24 PM]
But it is "plus START metal halide" not "pulse metal halide" that makes no sense. Rolling Eyes See here, all the lighting companies call it pulse start metal halide.
streetlight98   [Oct 01, 2011 at 01:41 PM]
"Pulse Metal halide" makes plenty of sense. Why wouldn't it make sense? And Phillips isn't the only lamp manufacturer. Rolling Eyes And you obvoiusly didn't look at GE's website. See the cobrahead PDFs. They use PMH as clear as day. Confused
gailgrove   [Oct 01, 2011 at 01:45 PM]
It doesn't explain what the pulse does - pulse - what? Plus of light? It just doesn't explain in detail like plus START - that explains what the pulse does - it starts the lamp, you don't say "high sodium" - no one would know what you are talking about.
streetlight98   [Oct 01, 2011 at 01:47 PM]
Pulse start metal halide may be the name, but for abbreviations, i see mostly PMH.
gailgrove   [Oct 01, 2011 at 01:49 PM]
Well it depends, I'm going out now for the day so I can't argue anymore. Laughing I'm mailing your check (again) very soon.
streetlight98   [Oct 01, 2011 at 02:07 PM]
Ok. I don't really want to argue anymore anyways. I have to upload picts. Laughing I printed out your NEMA tags, so everything is ready for you.
joe_347V   [Oct 01, 2011 at 03:16 PM]
I still prefer PSMH over PMH. PMH sounds odd and funny to me. Razz Laughing
streetlight98   [Oct 01, 2011 at 03:18 PM]
Do you say it like P-metal halide? If so that would sound odd. Razz Laughing
joe_347V   [Oct 01, 2011 at 03:22 PM]
Nope just PSMH or pulse start metal halide Razz Very Happy

Sometime I even say something like this: The MH highbays were replaced with new pulse start ones." Razz
streetlight98   [Oct 01, 2011 at 03:58 PM]
I say something like "The MH highbays were replaced with new pulse start ones." too.

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