General Electric M400A with traffic camera in Berkeley, California. While I am neither fond of the brown paint or it being 200w HPS, it's still one of my favourite luminaires, and I'm sure its days are numbered with LEDs creeping into the area.
That thing is used to make the fixture look flush with the arm, but it sure also blocks entrance to the inside of the fixture. I'm originally from Berkeley and I remember these M-400As as 400w MV.
Sort of an old pic now but I wouldn't mind the brown paint as much if it was gloss... Gloss black would look better though (if not the nice original gray paint!)
I wonder if they'll paint the new light matte brown. Afterall, the LED fixture will most definitly be a piece of $h!t so why not let it show its true colors?
I bet you it'll be the boring LED grey . Yet another reason why I don't like them, they killed off all the silver lights here and replaced them with grey.
Anyway, I think it'll end up looking odd if they keep that bird guard thing when they put in LEDs.
The OEM paint would have been glossy (maybe this was too) but this was repainted, looking at the poorly-cut NEMA tag. They didn't mask it off apparently. At least they didn't completely paint over it lol. I've seen that before.
I wonder if they used brown LED fixtures. I get excited now if I see an HPS miss-out, particularly a fixture with a drop lens. Almost everything in the Seattle area is LED now.
Yeah I enjoy seeing HPS missouts too. There are several of them around here. Most are left because of their proximity to high-voltage powerlines, so I guess not "missouts" per se but still remaining long after the others nonetheless.
New Kensington, PA had most of their street lights converted to LED's as well. There were 9 1000 watt mercury vapor street lights that were spared though as well as a 1000 watt metal halide street light.
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Anyway, I think it'll end up looking odd if they keep that bird guard thing when they put in LEDs.
Either way, its still a nice old light