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Sometime during 2011- early 2012 these perfectly working shoebox's were removed and replaced with 2 concrete poles with 400w HPS OVX's on them. I have reported them out before and they constantly keep failing. I don't think they have continuously cycled for more than a 4 month period. The far one was re OVX'd just under a year ago and has failed again. I think the wires coming up the pole or underground keep failing. Currently they are being fed with lines strung around them and yet still don't work. (the concrete pole is not leaning btw, it is the angle)
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I looked at the whole pole and it had no damage or anything. But the contractors took of the lens and the bulb. Everything else is still there as of last night.
Ah here for NGrid when they replace lights, for small sized fixtures they just replace them but for medium sized fixtures apparently they require two people to remove them so they will take out the photocell and wrap a ring of electrical tape around the light, just behind where the refractor area is. Then a period of time later (a month, three months, basically whenever they feel like it) the light gets replaced. I know of an OV-25 (400W MV from the 1960s) with a ring of tape and no PC, slated for removal, that's been that way for a long time now! I don't think it will ever get replaced. It's on a metal pole with the pole number sticker worn off so it can't be reported. I like seeing the OV-25 still up though. here is the OV-25 I'm referring to. In the streetview it has its photocell but was taped up. You can see the tape is worn off. Probably around 2012 they took out the photocell and retaped the light just behind the refractor. You can see the 113 on the truss is also taped up with no PC. That one's a weirdo since I've never seen a 250W HPs 113 used here before and it's on a 6ft truss arm, which is also never used here. That light has never had a PC for as long as I can remember (and has never worked for the same length of time). You can see in the streetview that the freeway has tall davits with OVFs. They installed those in the mid-2000s, 2004 or 2005. Before, the freeway portion had 250W HPS M-250R2s with individual PCs on 8ft trusses with 25ft tall poles, just like the OV-25 and 113. The ramps had tapered ellipticals.
here's a shot of some of the remaining trusses and tapered ellipticals, which light half of an interchange. 12 lights left total. None of the lights work though NGrid fixed about half a year ago, with a few being dayburners (all they did was fix a fuse that blew, leaving the lights dead for a decade) and that lasted a month tops before they all went out again. NGrid owns the PC-controlled lights and RIDOT owns the newer relay-controlled systems. There were more truss and tapered elliptical lights (...) here but they're redoing the freeway so all of those are gone (still under construction). they left the half-truss/tapered elliptical lit interchange alone for now though.
How is this city going to retrofit to LED by 2015 when over half the city is still HPS? I saw the city contractors still farting around up a bucket truck with an OVX (400W) today.
This light is now working again and same with its neighbor. I didn't report it this time lol