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GE M-250R1 in FCO Mode
Just decided to take an FCO pic of my M-250R1. There's really no lens at all but it wouldn't look any different with an FCO lens...
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GE M-250R1 in FCO Mode

Just decided to take an FCO pic of my M-250R1. There's really no lens at all but it wouldn't look any different with an FCO lens...

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Filename:gol5414_002.JPG
Album name:Mike / My General Electric M-250R1 (1974)
Keywords:American_Streetlights
Filesize:345 KiB
Date added:May 04, 2014
Dimensions:2000 x 1500 pixels
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Color Space:sRGB
DateTime Original:2009:03:27 00:59:16
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Exposure Time:1/871 sec
FNumber:f/2.8
Flash:No Flash
Focal length:28.8125 mm
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Make:Vivicam
Model:V5024
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LilCinnamon   [May 08, 2014 at 11:34 PM]
GE FCO's have a different reflector too, so this is not an FCO unless the reflector is different. Plus it needs the glass.
streetlight98   [May 09, 2014 at 12:38 AM]
No they used the same reflector. Yours is different because it was a later one. this one's from 1974. At that time they used the same reflector. As of 1977 they used the same reflector too. Around 1980 they came out with the bumpy FCO-only reflector.

And FCO refers to the light cut off, no light over 90 degrees, so any light without the refractor is technically FCO. Razz All I need is the FCO glass and it'll be FCO but these look better in drop lens anyways. There's one of these (100W MV) on my grandparents' street with a FCO glass but it's supposed to be drop lens. When they relamped it years ago they probably replaced the yellowed plastic lens with an FCO drop glass. They'll use any lens they have on the truck. They must save refractors from random removed fixtures. When they get low they probably just go and take the refractors off of the light at the top of the heap lol.

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