Ofcourse a common fixture, but it was there & I had the camera in my hand :)
Does look nice on this pole/setup to me though.
(image was taken out the car window)
Actually not super-duper common as you might think. This is actually an M-250R1, the model previous to the M-250R2. Made between 1970 and 1985. Sure kept its paint very well! Virtually all of these here have no paint left on the upper housing.
Cool.. I just assumed it was an R2 (I wasn't quite sure though because I thought something looked a bit different, but figured it was just the way it looked in the pic).
With that age, this might even be MV then too (highway didn't go close enough to see the tag if it had one)
I wonder if still having paint has anything to do with it being up in the mountains & in an area that doesn't get a whole lot of rain?
well we have a lot of this fixture around here, but not with a fresh looking paint like here! GE paint tend to wear away the most while Cooper tend to hold up the longest!
Lots of these here too before the 90s when they were removed for HPS. They were all 100/175W dual-wattage ballasts that were 240V with the PC wired for 120V. GE was always hit of miss. The 80s GEs almost always lost all their paint but some 70s GEs held it surprisingly well. And the GE fixtures from after the mid-90s seem to hold their paint well too. The 80s was just a bad decade for GE paint lol. Since 2000, GEs have held up the best IMO.
The older Coopers (like pre-90s) held their paint well but a lot of them now loose their paint in sheets like AELs. Thomas & Betts fixtures from the early-mid 90s held their paint well too but the ITT ones from the 70s and 80s lost a lot of their paint. But AEL and Cooper don't properly handle their castings after they've been charged for the powdercoat (contamination prevents a reliable bond with powdercoating).
I need to look & see if this one is still around next time I go through there since they replaced all the MV lights along the highway through that town with LED (this one might be spared since it was off highway - I don't know if they did anything more than the highway .. its a matter of actually remembering to look )
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With that age, this might even be MV then too
I wonder if still having paint has anything to do with it being up in the mountains & in an area that doesn't get a whole lot of rain?
The older Coopers (like pre-90s) held their paint well but a lot of them now loose their paint in sheets like AELs. Thomas & Betts fixtures from the early-mid 90s held their paint well too but the ITT ones from the 70s and 80s lost a lot of their paint. But AEL and Cooper don't properly handle their castings after they've been charged for the powdercoat (contamination prevents a reliable bond with powdercoating).
I need to look & see if this one is still around next time I go through there since they replaced all the MV lights along the highway through that town with LED (this one might be spared since it was off highway - I don't know if they did anything more than the highway .. its a matter of actually remembering to look