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The final setup
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Here is the final setup for the new owners of this house since I will officially no longer be the owner of this home as of 12/6/16. This is a M-250R2 that had a bad ballast so I stripped it out and installed a mogul base 30 watt corn LED daylight lamp. It looks pretty much like a Metal halide light source.
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BTW they LED'ed my street today. HPS when I left for school at 7:30AM, LED when I came home from school at 12:30PM. And to add insult to injury they installed the wrong wattage LEDs on the whole street! They're supposed to replace the 50W HPS with 20W LED and the 100W HPS with 40W LEDs. My street had 100W HPS and they used all 20W LEDs. The road is literally half as bright! Not sure if the city requested the street to be "downgraded" or if the contractor was just being lazy and checked one light, saw it was 50W, and used 20W LEDs on the whole street. The first three lights on my street were 50W, installed on every pole. The rest were 100W HPS on every-other pole. So they probably looked at the first couple of lights on the street and got lazy.
Anyway, not even a full 24HRS after the lights were installed I have emailed the city DPW asking why the wrong lights were installed and asking them to either install the correct 40W LEDs or add additional LEDs on the poles with no lights to at least somewhat increase the light level. Ideally, I'd like to see 40W LEDs on every single pole but I know they're not going to add additional lights (and if they did, it would be more 20W ones) so I'm just rooting for 40W LEDs on the existing arms.
If I don't get anywhere with an email I'll step it up a notch to phone calls. And I'll keep harassing them until they have the correct wattage lights installed lol. The street lighting on the road now is seriously pathetic. I can't even see down the road where the road bends. There used to be two 100W HPS lights shining brightly on that corner and now two lousy Autobahns are putting out moonlight. I also noticed the shadows of the service drops crossing the road under the fixture are very sharp on the pavement. With the HPS you couldn't even see the shadows from power lines.
One thing I don't like about them is that the light is very focused. There's not much "spill". The OVH in front of our house lights up our front lawn and throws some light behind it down the side of our house, which I like for security purposes. When it gets replaced by an Evolve, our yard will probably be dark