Very nice light, the GE 201SA's are one of the best nema heads made.

Agreed. Is it me or have those GE M-250R2 acrylic lenses gotten thinner recently? You can practiaclly see through the refractor.

The bulb can be seen through the M-250R2 refractor.

Other older M-250R2s aren't like that. Even ones installed a few years ago didn't have lenses that thin. It could possibly be that the lenses around here are dirty though...

@ mike, you can see the lamp in the older M-250R2's refractor. I will admit they show more in the newer ones but they are visible from the ground on the older fixtures. I also looked at my 1989 fixture and they lamp was visible.

How thin are those acrylic lenses compared to other prismatic refractors out there? I'd imagine they're quite thin as the birds love puncturing them.

thinner than the poly ones....mine broke..they are easy to break!

I personally don't think they are to thin. I've seen old ploycarb lens get damaged just as bad as acrylic from bb gun shots or birds.

The only one I've had is the FP acrylic refractor that was on the door that Ifound on the ground. NGrid uses those as replacements for all lights. they're very thick and are strong too. Even though the light in front of my house was new, it was installed with a round lens, which I find odd. It's either a poly lens or the actrylic refractor that was origional may have broken during shipping. i occasionally see new M-250R2s installed with FP lenses here.

The cool thing is that GE quit using the standard NEMA head body and designed their own! I find it to be very neat looking personally.

I wonder how this would look with a Powr/Bracket refractor on or even a radial wave.

I've actually never seen one of these here, the yardlights and powerbracket style fixtures are much more common here.

This light does look like it is very well built. The reflector felt like it had been wiped down with oil when i took it out of the box. I wiped it off though. It might just be from how they manufacture it. Maybe they put oil on the aluminum before it goes into the press that forms it into the shape of a reflector?

They might oil it to prevent it from scuffing up during transit.

That could be why. But it was packed pretty well. There was cardboard inside to keep everything separated.

That bracket looks to be alluminum did they switch from steel recently? The one I have is 175 watt merc from 2008 and it has a galvanized steel bracket.

Hmm. I don't know. This is one of the stock models. Maybe this model comes with a aluminum arm. And the special order ones maybe come with galvanized steel.

I thaught the stock models came withe the steel brackets. I baught mine stock and it was steel.I rarely see ones with alluminum.

I ordered two of these at different times and both times, the arm was aluminum.