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RIDOT LEDs Google is re-doing the freeway streetviews here and this streetview from August 2014 shows Route 10 in the middle of an LED changeout. RIDOT is replacing NGrid owned lights here. For some reasn, they decided to use poles normall used only on the ramps on the freeway portion as well. The NGrid trusses are gone as of September 27, 2014. It seems like they haven't finished putting up the rest of the LED yet. These LeoTeks lack NEMA labels so i have no idea what wattage they are. They are smaller than the M-250R2s and according to LeoTek's website, the most lumens you can get with that size is 18100 so these things are going to be DIM! Keywords: American_Streetlights

RIDOT LEDs

Google is re-doing the freeway streetviews here and this streetview from August 2014 shows Route 10 in the middle of an LED changeout. RIDOT is replacing NGrid owned lights here. For some reasn, they decided to use poles normall used only on the ramps on the freeway portion as well. The NGrid trusses are gone as of September 27, 2014. It seems like they haven't finished putting up the rest of the LED yet.

These LeoTeks lack NEMA labels so i have no idea what wattage they are. They are smaller than the M-250R2s and according to LeoTek's website, the most lumens you can get with that size is 18100 so these things are going to be DIM!

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Silverliner14B   [Oct 10, 2014 at 08:37 PM]
I remember when this stretch was merc lit in the 80s. There was one HPS ITT 25 which was bypassed when all the mercs were changed out in the 90s. That ITT later got replaced though. You know, I was thinking. RIDOT installed a lot of Hubbells, GEs, L-150s and L-250s, these fixtures were found only on the davit poles (except the truss arms on a bridge on I-180 which got Hubbells, must be RIDOT owned). I never see the aforementioned fixtures on most of the truss arms, except for the GEs (and a few ITTs from the 80s). I have a pretty good idea in how to tell apart between RIDOT and NGrid lights. Ever been on route 146 in the North Smithfield/Woonsocket area? They got FCOs installed by BVE before the takeover.
streetlight98   [Oct 10, 2014 at 09:51 PM]
Ah interesting. I wish I could have seen this in the 80s. I believe when this portion of Rte 10 was opened in 1960, it had Form 400 PowerPaks. The lights on the side roads that were re-routed when Rte 10 was built had 175w Westinghouse OV-10IBs original (and two are still left).

Yep, RIDOT owns all the lights on davit poles. Most of the truss and tapered elliptical lights are owned by NGrid (NECo and BVE prior to the late 90s). RIDOT released plans for a lighting curfew back in 2010 which has been in effect since around 2011 on select freeways. In that, RIDOT said they plan to replace all of the remaining NGrid-owned lighting with RIDOT metered systems. Oddly, they didn't list the BVE trusses on Rte 146 and didn't list the I-295/Rte 37 interchange, and those are definitely NGrid-owned installations.

Those BVE trusses on Rte 146 have mostly drop lens M-250R2s and OVZs with the new style glass lens now. A few years ago NGrid fixed them all since NGrid hasn't touched the majority of their freeway lights since they took over (probably why RIDOT wants to replace their lights!) so most of those FCO lights probably had bad igniters. Exits 10 and 11 on I-295 are also NGrid-owned and previously BVE. They have a nice variety of lights, all 250W HPS. M-400 split doors, T&B 25s, OVMs, and of course M-250R2s. Other than that, I think all the other NGrid-owned lights were NECo owned. All the former NECo installations here have drop lens 250W HPS M-250R2s. No variety other than different ages of the R2s and some have older PCs which are light blue instead of brown, black, or gray.

Apparently all the NGrid lights are 120V too, which is odd for freeway lighting.

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