NW Suburban Chicago - OV-15 FCO

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Filename:	IMG_0289_copy.JPG
Album name:	gramirez2012 / NW Suburban Chicago
Keywords:	American_Streetlights
Company and Date Manufactured:	Westinghouse
Model Number:	OV-15
Lamp Type:	Mercury Vapor
Filesize:	626 KiB
Date added:	Oct 20, 2011
Dimensions:	2250 x 3000 pixels
Displayed:	50 times
Color Space:	sRGB
DateTime Original:	2011:10:19 12:54:15
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Exposure Time:	1/2304 sec
FNumber:	f/2.4
Flash:	No Flash
Focal length:	4.28 mm
ISO:	64
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GullWhiz

[Oct 20, 2011 at 05:11 PM]

Awesome! My area brand new fixtures are sag lens.....but if an existing fixture needed new lens and had drop lens, it would get a new drop lens......

Funny thing...when I was still living in Northbrook Ill, back in 2001-2004, they still installed DROP lens MV fixtures but for HPS it was FCO

streetlight98

[Oct 20, 2011 at 10:17 PM]

whatever lens is in the truck is what National Grid will replace it with. It's usually a formed plastics lens but it's sometimes a flat glass.

gramirez2012

[Nov 28, 2011 at 07:11 PM]

This fixture has been replaced with a new M400R3 400w HPS. Honestly, I'm glad they replaced it. The Westy never seemed to give of an adequate amount of light for this intersection. When they replaced the old browned refractor with a FCO lens, it became even more apparent. It was probably only 175 or 250w. Additionally, it had trouble starting the lamp on occasion.

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Gallery of Lights

OV-15 FCO

I'll retake this pic in better light. This OV-15 used to have a very brown lens with dim merc. When I reported it, they replaced the lens with an FCO lens and has a bright new merc in it.