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My 2013 Cooper Lighting OVZ Got this for free from Craigslist. Got four lights total. Two I bought for $30/each and the other two were damaged so they were included for free. The light above was one that was "damaged". The seller accidentally dropped them this morning moving them out of the shed for when I picked them up this evening. I was originally just buying two anyway, but he said I could have the broken ones for free to use for parts or whatever since no one else would probably want them. The only thing wrong with this light is the glass is gone (shattered into a zillion pieces when he dropped it...) and there's a hairline crack on the front of the door that I don't think will be an issue. The light is in great cosmetic shape, given it was in use for around three years (or less) and works fine. I'm gonna try to get a replacement glass for this and make it complete again. BTW, this is what National Grid (my electric company) currently uses for 250W lights. This actually is a National Grid light. It came from Providence as a result of their LED changeout. The guy selling these had gotten around 10 lights from his friend, who works for the electrical contractor who won the bid to changeout Providence's lights. He said his friend was keeping them and stripping them for scrap but he was only getting around $9 a light so it wasn't worth it so he gave the rest he had saved to the Craigslist guy. Very friendly guy too. He offered to have his friend keep a lookout for any lights in particular since I told him "I collect these things". I told him if his buddy comes across any mercury vapor lights to save them and I'll buy them from him. I told him to tell his friend that the MV lights will either have a blue sticker on the door or no sticker and have a white bulb instead of clear and will likely be wired with 3 wires instead of 2. Keywords: American_Streetlights

My 2013 Cooper Lighting OVZ

Got this for free from Craigslist. Got four lights total. Two I bought for $30/each and the other two were damaged so they were included for free. The light above was one that was "damaged". The seller accidentally dropped them this morning moving them out of the shed for when I picked them up this evening. I was originally just buying two anyway, but he said I could have the broken ones for free to use for parts or whatever since no one else would probably want them.

The only thing wrong with this light is the glass is gone (shattered into a zillion pieces when he dropped it...) and there's a hairline crack on the front of the door that I don't think will be an issue. The light is in great cosmetic shape, given it was in use for around three years (or less) and works fine. I'm gonna try to get a replacement glass for this and make it complete again.

BTW, this is what National Grid (my electric company) currently uses for 250W lights. This actually is a National Grid light. It came from Providence as a result of their LED changeout. The guy selling these had gotten around 10 lights from his friend, who works for the electrical contractor who won the bid to changeout Providence's lights. He said his friend was keeping them and stripping them for scrap but he was only getting around $9 a light so it wasn't worth it so he gave the rest he had saved to the Craigslist guy.

Very friendly guy too. He offered to have his friend keep a lookout for any lights in particular since I told him "I collect these things". I told him if his buddy comes across any mercury vapor lights to save them and I'll buy them from him. I told him to tell his friend that the MV lights will either have a blue sticker on the door or no sticker and have a white bulb instead of clear and will likely be wired with 3 wires instead of 2.

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joe_347V   [Nov 12, 2016 at 04:35 AM]
Nice score, nice of the seller to give you the broken ones for free too. I wonder if there are any MVs around, from what you said it seemed like the remaining MVs were 100w or missouts. I guess in the meantime you could install a FCO glass in this so it has some kind of glass.
streetlight98   [Nov 12, 2016 at 08:54 PM]
Some cities/towns have more MVs than others. Providence had next to none. But Cranston has a fair number (well before 1/2 the city became LED overnight! my area is still HPS but the next neighborhoods over are LED!) and other places like West Warwick and Coventry have some. Westerly, North Kingstown, Newport, Middletown, and Portsmouth have lots of MVs. Cranston, W. Warwick, and Coventry have mostly 100W MVs but the rest of the places I listed have 100, 175, and 400W MVs in pretty plentiful amounts. North Kingstown has lots of 175W MV OV-10IBs.

Yeah I was thinking about sticking in one of those FCO glassed you gave me in our trade until I can get a replacement glass. They do make flat glass not-so-FCO OVZs with the same reflector so it wouldn't technically be "wrong" like sticking a flat glass in the M-250R2 would be (since the M-250R2s use different reflectors).
streetlight98   [Nov 13, 2016 at 06:39 PM]
Well turns out that little hairline crack on the door was bad since the door broke all the way through. Now I need a M-250R2 door and glass and a OVZ door and glass. Neutral
joe_347V   [Nov 14, 2016 at 12:18 AM]
That's too bad Sad At least you pretty much got this for free. Anyway the OVZ door can be ordered separately so I guess if you can't find one you could try ordering one.
streetlight98   [Nov 14, 2016 at 01:37 AM]
Ah thanks for the link. I'll be (hopefully) getting a replacement door and glass from Steve Zalimas (fellow enthusiast from Northern Massachusetts). He'll also be hooking me up with a door and glass for the M-250R2 too. Lots of towns are going LED in his area too so he said he should be able to come up with something from his contacts.
joe_347V   [Nov 15, 2016 at 10:48 PM]
Ahh that's good. Hopefully you can get the parts needed to fix them up.
streetlight98   [Nov 15, 2016 at 11:43 PM]
Yeah it'll be nice to get this light back together again. Normally I wouldn't care about owning a Cooper OVZ, especially a 250W HPS one, but this is a NGrid one and is NGrid's current fixture of choice for 250W HPS so it's like a piece of the timeline for local street lighting. A someday-relic once all the towns go LED and these vanish. Hopefully I get an oval glass for it. The OVZs and OVXs NGrid has installed since 2012-ish have had the oval glass and the traditional glass. Most have the oval glass but they seem to still use both. IMO, the oval glass looks better on the OVZ and the square glass is the only way to go with the OVX. The oval glass performs better though IMO. Ironically it's the glass Westinghouse and AE originally started out with before going to the square glass. McGraw-Edison and Powerlite used the same glass too. GE always used their own glass though. Rebels lol.

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