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NGrid-Owned Camp Street Light
Lighting one of the dirt roads in the camp. It doesn't work at night. I will report it and hopefully NGrid fixes it... This is 100W HPS. I would expect a 50W HPS in an application like this but I prefer 100W HPS since it's brighter. The M-250R2 probably had its original lamp and PC too (a brown sun-tech photocell) so I'm surprised it went this long without needing a new lamp. I'm also surprised this is HPS too. That's a 1980s-very early 90s arm but this is a mid-to-late 90s M-250R2 so this most likely replaced a 175w MV M-250A2 FCO. I wouldn't have expected them to "catch" this light, since it's within the camp property and not on the street. Usually the "hidden" fixtures got missed out, especially in Cranston.
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NGrid-Owned Camp Street Light

Lighting one of the dirt roads in the camp. It doesn't work at night. I will report it and hopefully NGrid fixes it... This is 100W HPS. I would expect a 50W HPS in an application like this but I prefer 100W HPS since it's brighter. The M-250R2 probably had its original lamp and PC too (a brown sun-tech photocell) so I'm surprised it went this long without needing a new lamp. I'm also surprised this is HPS too. That's a 1980s-very early 90s arm but this is a mid-to-late 90s M-250R2 so this most likely replaced a 175w MV M-250A2 FCO. I wouldn't have expected them to "catch" this light, since it's within the camp property and not on the street. Usually the "hidden" fixtures got missed out, especially in Cranston.

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Mike   [Nov 03, 2018 at 12:42 AM]
Well, four years later this light still doesn't work. Neutral
Model25FanForever   [Nov 03, 2018 at 01:06 AM]
It looks very remote, maybe NGrid can't find it Laughing
Mike   [Nov 03, 2018 at 01:36 AM]
Yeah it's on a private campground and lighting a dirt road (and the pole is setback from said road at least 10ft). Definitely reachable with a bucket truck, since they wouldn't have installed it, but National Grid is infamous for poor records keeping so it's entirely possible they can't find the light. When Cranston went LED, the public works director told me in an email that there were dozens of inconsistencies between what NGrid said was on the pole and what was actually on the pole. In some cases there was no light on the pole at all! (And in a couple rare cases there were lights on the pole but no NGrid record of them!) For the most part those two issues were uncommon but it was a very common issue, in cranston at least, for NGrid to have the incorrect information on file about the light (i.e. wattage and lamp type). The DPW director had said there were several issues with the wattage on file not being the actual wattage installed and some lights on file as MV or HPS where the actual light was the opposite.
lightingfan8902   [Nov 03, 2018 at 03:26 AM]
Could be abandoned?
Mike   [Nov 04, 2018 at 01:32 AM]
I suppose, but I don't think so. Someone is probably paying for the light. Likely the camp. Don't think the city is paying for the light since it wasn't replaced with an LED (and is buried inside the camp property). Normally when the city does pay for a lease light on private property it's a flood light installed on a pole for the main road.

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