ahh looks greenish in the pic but now that you mention it the leaves would probably look greener with a clear merc... Still a nice sight! Any 400W mercs here are dimmed out or they don't work. NGrid stopped relamping 100w mercs earlier this year. I guess their stock of lamps ran out and they're not going to restock. NGrid got rid of the remaining mercs (mostly 100w MV) in Joe M's area back in the mid-to-late 2000s. There are still a good amount of 100w mercs though. 175W and 400W mercs are about as common as each other. Apparently 250W mercs were never used in RI except for a few Form 109s and teardrops in the Providence area that are long gone. I don't know where they were located though. Joe told me the only 250W mercs were a few of the test piolet mercs in the 40s and 50s though.
Nice that they have some clear NEMAs in use. NEMA heads are another thing that were never used in RI either, unless there are one or two of them. I've seen cobraheads for all sorts of uses here but cobras and floods are all that the electric company seemed to use (well except in the pre-cobrahead days). Joe's shared lots of pics with my of RI "back in the day". I sure would've loved to have seen it with my own eyes...
I remembered you asked me if there were any mercury vapor streetlights in my area and I could only think of the signs on the 71 freeway at that time. Turns out there's also a mercury vapor ITT model 25 in the parking lot of the Western Hills Country Club off Carbon Canyon rd that I pass by every day. It appears to have a clear lamp in it judging from the color.
Nice! My power company West Penn Power still services mercury vapor street lights too. The mercury vapor street lights in West Penn Power's area are cared for, whereas most of the mercury vapor street lights in Duquesne Light's area are not. Duquesne Light stopped relamping them after 2009, they're replacing their mercury vapor street lights individually as each individual fixture goes out.
Yeah it seems up your way they were very thorough with exterminating all the mercs. there were some i founf on my street view spree up in northern Ontario (well more like central ontario but it's the northern half of the occupied area lol)
yeah they left them on the poles here too. My guess is that it was just quicker for them to cut the wires to them and leave them along rather then spend the time to remove a 45 pound can off the pole. When a pole gets replaced here though the ballast can gets tossed
Yeah it probably is, I sometimes see old remote PC sockets still on the pole too. And it's the same over here with the ballast can, if they change the pole they'll toss the can.
Good to know that there are some mercs still up and running. That is bright! . I don't know of any here. IIRC there may have a few ballast cans I've seen on some of the old wooden poles in Huntsville
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Nice that they have some clear NEMAs in use. NEMA heads are another thing that were never used in RI either, unless there are one or two of them. I've seen cobraheads for all sorts of uses here but cobras and floods are all that the electric company seemed to use (well except in the pre-cobrahead days). Joe's shared lots of pics with my of RI "back in the day". I sure would've loved to have seen it with my own eyes...
I remembered you asked me if there were any mercury vapor streetlights in my area and I could only think of the signs on the 71 freeway at that time. Turns out there's also a mercury vapor ITT model 25 in the parking lot of the Western Hills Country Club off Carbon Canyon rd that I pass by every day. It appears to have a clear lamp in it judging from the color.