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My PC Collection Here's most of the PCs I have collected. The majority of them were Restore finds, The blue PC and the GE shorting cap were from a trade with Mike and the Designer's Edge PC was from a clearance sale. Anyway from back left: Area Lighting Research BF-120 120v, 04/03, thermal, new Area Lighting Research BF-120 120v, 04/03, thermal, new Touch and Glow EZ-342C 120-277v, unknown date, electronic with programmable timer, new GE shorting cap, 1970s, used Lumatrol EC-120AC-TD,120v, 06/02, electronic, used, came with my R47 Lumatrol EC-120AC-TD,120v, 06/02, electronic, used, came with my B2255 Lumatrol P2-275, 120v, 08/93, thermal, new Lumatrol P2-275, 120v, 02/93, thermal, new Fisher Pierce 6660, 120v, 1981, relay, used Fisher Pierce 6660, 120v, 1982, relay, used Fisher Pierce 7760-SPS, 120v, 03/96, relay, new Fisher Pierce Sunrise Technologies FP7671-JBBA, 120v, 02/08, electronic with silicon eye, new Fisher Pierce Sunrise Technologies FP7671-JBBA, 120v, 02/08, electronic with silicon eye, new Designer Edge (Made by Fisher Pierce) L-4700, 120v, 07/96, relay, new Longjoin JL-202A, 120v, thermal, 10/08, new Also in the shot are a couple of Cooper Bussmann PC sockets I have as spares. Ironically they have a different design as what Cooper uses in their streetlights. Keywords: Gear

My PC Collection

Here's most of the PCs I have collected. The majority of them were Restore finds, The blue PC and the GE shorting cap were from a trade with Mike and the Designer's Edge PC was from a clearance sale.

Anyway from back left:
Area Lighting Research BF-120 120v, 04/03, thermal, new
Area Lighting Research BF-120 120v, 04/03, thermal, new
Touch and Glow EZ-342C 120-277v, unknown date, electronic with programmable timer, new
GE shorting cap, 1970s, used

Lumatrol EC-120AC-TD,120v, 06/02, electronic, used, came with my R47
Lumatrol EC-120AC-TD,120v, 06/02, electronic, used, came with my B2255
Lumatrol P2-275, 120v, 08/93, thermal, new
Lumatrol P2-275, 120v, 02/93, thermal, new

Fisher Pierce 6660, 120v, 1981, relay, used
Fisher Pierce 6660, 120v, 1982, relay, used
Fisher Pierce 7760-SPS, 120v, 03/96, relay, new

Fisher Pierce Sunrise Technologies FP7671-JBBA, 120v, 02/08, electronic with silicon eye, new
Fisher Pierce Sunrise Technologies FP7671-JBBA, 120v, 02/08, electronic with silicon eye, new
Designer Edge (Made by Fisher Pierce) L-4700, 120v, 07/96, relay, new

Longjoin JL-202A, 120v, thermal, 10/08, new

Also in the shot are a couple of Cooper Bussmann PC sockets I have as spares. Ironically they have a different design as what Cooper uses in their streetlights.

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lite_lover   [Jul 27, 2016 at 09:01 AM]
Nice collection of PC's Joe!
joe_347V   [Jul 27, 2016 at 10:11 PM]
Thanks Darren!
gmercury2000   [Sep 26, 2016 at 04:31 AM]
Nice collection, I gotta say I love the gray Fisher Pierce's.
joe_347V   [Sep 27, 2016 at 08:34 PM]
Thanks! Same here, they're simple but pretty robust PCs.
streetlight98   [Sep 28, 2016 at 02:03 AM]
Agreed. The pre-Sun-Tech Fisher Pierce photocells were the best. Now I'd say Ripley PCs are the best.
gmercury2000   [Sep 30, 2016 at 11:42 PM]
Yes, I'd agree. The new sun-tech are junk. They sound horrible if activated without pulling load. We've also had lots of instances where they will dayburn if used in an enclosed fixture. Very odd.
streetlight98   [Oct 01, 2016 at 02:20 AM]
Here they just have issues with dayburners period lol. Around 2014-ish they had BAD issues with dayburners, probably because the linemen assumed FP wouldn't send a faulty PC and if they did, it would be 1 in a million. So they probably didn't test the PCs. They must be doing that now since I don't see as many dayburners. Seems like if the new Sun-Techs work out of the box then they will last but many are DOA.

Not sure if it's just what they're specifying here, but these problem-prone Sun-Techs are also extremely sensitive. There are some in urban areas here that do not turn the light on at night at all because the PC is picking up on stray light from buildings and other lights. This is especially common at gas stations or car dealerships where there's a lot of spill light.

I've seen an increased number of older PCs remain during a lamp change too. They NEVER would leave an old PC at a lamp change unless the spring-loaded ring in a GE fixture broke and the PC socket wouldn't allow the PC to be removed (aka the PCR spins aimlessly around, preventing the PC socket from being twisted and pulled out) but I'm seeing it a lot now. Even on lights with not-so-sensitive PCs. But some still get new PCs. Must depend on the person who does the service.
gmercury2000   [Oct 01, 2016 at 11:29 AM]
With the ones we had, we would just wack them on the top with a screw driver and it fixed the problem. Of course we changed them out but it seems like it was an issue with the contact sticking.
streetlight98   [Oct 01, 2016 at 05:05 PM]
Interesting. I have a 2011 Sun-Tech PC that is 480V (I have around a dozen actually, and all the rest work great on 120V despite being 480V-only) and when I tested it, it would shut off when it saw light and then two seconds later it would turn back on. After messing with it, I was able to make it stay off when it saw light but if the power was left on while the PC was "seeing" daylight, anywhere from 5 minutes to 45 minutes later you would hear the PC's contacts close and the light would randomly come on in broad daylight and start dayburning. And it would not shut off until power was removed and re-applied, where it would remain off for a few minutes and do the same thing again. Rolling Eyes Laughing

I ended up removing the cover off the PC and just displaying the guts and using the yellow cover on an older 1988 Fisher Pierce that was missing the window. the original cover was cracked too, so I just broke it off, replaced the CdS eye (which got it functioning again) and snapped the 2011 yellow Sun-Tech cover over the old PC's base. Perfect fit too!
gmercury2000   [Oct 01, 2016 at 05:20 PM]
Funny you mention about the fit being perfect, I recently contacted sun-tech about possibly buying some gaskets as I had some NOS 6600 series PC's that were missing them. They told me they wouldn't fit as the bases were totally different. I just said ok thanks. So I bought some cheap ALR's and removed the gaskets and glued them onto the Fisher Pierce's and they look great. The whole time I was thinking they're pretty much still the same size. Of course the lady I talked to most likely didn't work there when my PC's were made. Lol. No biggie though as I figured a solution.

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