I've been noticing lately that the light infront of my house has been turning on alot earlier than normal. this was taken at 3:55 PM yestreday and sunset ain't till 4:25 here. I guess its going to be time for a new photocell soon.
Lets hope it's JUST a new PC and not an aluminum waffle. Or hope that they replace this on a day you're not working. The M-400A's companion the M-400 split door is still very common here in 250w HPS.
I have a feeling it will be an LED before I know it. Holyoke has taken off with the LED swaps. If they put a LEOTEK light here, I won't be to upset since the light output is nice. I'll still get my driveway lit up by the fixture.
i didn't know a shift in sensitivity meant a photocell was about to go bad...there's this one Nema at a TX DOT office and it only goes off in direct sunlight,if its even a little cloudy it kicks on so it stays on most of the time.
I'm not going to bother and call it in anyway, the fixture still turns off just later and sooner tahn it used to. It had new PC and lamp installed when I moved here 4 years ago because it was out. Besides, its going to be an LED soon anyway.
When there's a dayburner here it takes forever to get it fixed sicne NGrid does all their streetlight work at night. Sometimes i want to climb up there and put in a new PC myself, but I'd never do that even if it tried. I can't climb well, and I'm afriad of heights to a degree unless I'm on a solid surface.
try being up 120 feet in the air working on a 345KV switch in a basket that you have no control of. Lets say I was a bit nervous the first time I went up.
If you work with streetlights, you may still need to have training for high voltage anyway!!! (the primary lines on wooden poles) Also sometimes you have to work with those transformers that controls the streetlights....
I'm not sure if I'll even be a lineman. I'd ideally like to have a refurbish shop and refurbish lights from the elctric company and sell them beack to the electric company. That'll likely never happen so I need a backup plan...
You should enjoy it since it's the last pic you took of it lit up. Now you can always look at this pic and remember the fanta orange light it used to cast on the road. HPS isn't my favorite light source, but I'm gonna miss the M-250R2 in front of my house and the 1993 flatdoor M-250R2s and the FCO MV 100W M-250A2s and the T&B 113s when they're gone. There are LED teardrops in Providence but those are state owned, not NGrid owned. I haven't seen anything that hints that NGrid has even considered testing LED streetlights in RI. I know the state wanted to test them a couple years ago.
Yeah those were the days. They seem to have freezed the changeout since I haven't seen any new ones go up in about 6 months. Wondering if the original installs were a grant and they are saving up for the remaining replacements. Although, I have seen the town and country post tops changed to LED in the west side of the city in the last few months.
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i didn't know a shift in sensitivity meant a photocell was about to go bad...there's this one Nema at a TX DOT office and it only goes off in direct sunlight,if its even a little cloudy it kicks on so it stays on most of the time.
There was a light near me that was a early bird for many years! I mean many years!!! But it has recently been upgraded with HPS and has a new PC too..