new lights for temporary lighting? Odd. I don't think i've ever seen temporary street lights here. they will either keep the old lights in service until the new lights are all wired up and ready to be powered or if they need to they'll remove the old lights and the road will be lightless until the new lights are installed.

They usually come up for temporary uses but most of the time they reuse other fixtures. OVX's here are now used for spot replacement's because now OVF and AE 125 (drop lens/FCO) are the norm around here. Those metal poles in the background are for signals they are too short for those OVXs. Peel region does this a lot with they're construction to make sure that all the old equipment has come down, they don't like keeping up old stuff much.

York usually changes out everything during a large construction project too. If you drive along Hwy 7 between Bayview and the 404, every pole has been replaced with these as part of a bus lane installation (which opened today). Here's the types of poles the were originally installed by MTO in the 80s and used FCO B2255s and FCO AE 25s.

They also used some new lights and signals for the temp poles too.

We have those teardrop lights on Queen street that were installed after construction, but that project reused a lot of powerlites for the temporary lights. They could have used the Powerlites and Westys on new poles instead of those teardrops.

Those aren't teardrops. those things are ugly lol. They look like UFOs or hats or even crabs lol.

Now they are teardrops because we made them sad by calling them ugly

LOL the ugly ceatures of the deep are making teardrops.

Now if only we all got teardrop street lights when we cried.

All children deserve a 250 watt teardrop for every time they cry

Maybe we need to cheer them up with a nice big gumball.

and a truss arm

sticker: "40"... XD

that's the wattage label.

Funny about the stickers too, Niall got a Brampton OVX with a 400w HPS tag but it turned out it was only a 250w fixture. I guess they put a 40 sticker on to pass inspection.

I guess they have to have they're fun too

yeah, that one Nial got must have been from Queen street work that reused a wide variety of small fixtures for temporary lighting. They stuck 400W stickers on 250W R37's, R47's, OV-15's, and OVx's, maybe even an AEL 115, whic I have never in my life seen being 400W. Could they just put a 400W bulb in these and get higher light output?

On Dixie at Eglington there are 400w AE 115's.

Woah, I wonder how those small 400W AE115's will hold up!

Hmm the 115 is only made in 400W HPS in 208V and 240V with a reactor ballast so that means they don't comply with the Ontario electric code. Since 208 and 240 are phase-to-phase aren't they?

I don't have the streetview unfortunately because they were installed recently. Could be a mislabel too.

Yeah they are phase to phase. We are potentially going to be learning that in my HVAC split class this year since its split electricity and HVRAC

I saw Brampton's first FCO AEL 115 a few weeks back, only one on the Hillside Drive project that is OVF's. Seems like this oddball was added because the portion of road was deficient. I thought Guest St was all FCO 115's at first, but either I was crazy or they changed them to OVH's...