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Label Close-up
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Here's the labels on Darren's M-400A2. These are real labels, courtesy of Joe when I visited him at Vaughan Mills in Ontario (well actually, these were mailed to me afterwards). Because of a label company error, he ended up with two orders worth of labels, as one of the 32s got smudged so I got four of the McCann Lighting labels. One is inside the fixture on the top housing and I decided to stick the second REFURBISHED FIXTURE label on the outside of the door like older Canadian fixtures have. I plan to do the same thing with my M-400A2. Right now my M-400A2 still has the original "40" NEMA tag since I was planning on converting it back to 400W HPS but I think I'll just leave it at 320W PSMH...
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@ Andy; 400W HPs is 50000 lumens and 320W PSMH is around 31000 lumens so 400W HPS is brighter but 320W PSMH is better color light so the PSMH is probably just as effective in a parking lot. 400W PSMH is about the same as 400W HPS, at about 41000 lumens, but PSMH suffers a greater lumen depreciation than HPS. Both lumens and lumen depreciation can be fixed by using CMH lamps though.
Originally the lot was all 1000W MV, which is 58000 lumens, but over time they installed some 250 and 400W HPS and then 400W probe start MH, then 320W PSMH and they converted all the lights to 320W PSMH. So by the time they converted them all to 320W PSMH, the lot was very dim and poorly lit. As much as I love seeing cobrahead-lit parking lots, this one desperately needed a lighting upgrade.
@ Ian; Thanks.
@ Zarlog: There is no M-400R3 or M-400A3. It's the M-400 and M-400A. 200W PSMH is a weird wattage for a cobrahead.