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Brothers Together For One Last Time After sharing a pole together for about 15 years, both lights got a nice restoration but now will be parting ways. The M-400A2 on the left will be be going far, far, away to a mysterious land called BC and the one on the right will remain with me. For the pic, Darren's A2 on the left has the shallow glass from my M-400 split door. Also, note the two photocells. They're both NOS from 1997 (the age of the fixtures). I figured it was only right to show these guys with NOS photocells of the same age after they went through a restoration and look like new! These originally didn't have PC sockets and instead had black caps that snapped into the PC socket hole in the housing. All I had to do was pop out the black cap on each light and installed the PC socket. Keywords: American_Streetlights

Brothers Together For One Last Time

After sharing a pole together for about 15 years, both lights got a nice restoration but now will be parting ways. The M-400A2 on the left will be be going far, far, away to a mysterious land called BC and the one on the right will remain with me. For the pic, Darren's A2 on the left has the shallow glass from my M-400 split door.

Also, note the two photocells. They're both NOS from 1997 (the age of the fixtures). I figured it was only right to show these guys with NOS photocells of the same age after they went through a restoration and look like new! These originally didn't have PC sockets and instead had black caps that snapped into the PC socket hole in the housing. All I had to do was pop out the black cap on each light and installed the PC socket.

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Album name:Mike / My General Electric M-400A2 (1997)
Keywords:American_Streetlights
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Date added:Jul 23, 2014
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joe_347V   [Jul 23, 2014 at 07:01 AM]
It looks like yours is saying goodbye to Darren's and wishing it a safe journey and for the best. Razz
Darren's looks like it feels a bit sad about leaving. Laughing

I suppose they might reunite if either of you decide to meet up in the future. Very Happy
lite_lover   [Jul 23, 2014 at 08:29 AM]
The paint jobs look great! Yeah it looks like they are going to miss each other. Laughing
Mercuryvapor123   [Jul 23, 2014 at 01:12 PM]
Wonderful restoration, you gave them both a fresh start. Very Happy
streetlight98   [Jul 23, 2014 at 02:03 PM]
@ Joe; LOL yep that's what I was going for. Very Happy Laughing My M-400A2 on the right saying its good-byes to Darren's M-400A2 on the left.
@ Darren; ah thanks. Very Happy It looks better on the computer than it does in person. Laughing I decided not to put a clearcoat on my M-400A2 this time around. I wasn't going to risk having to sand it down and paint it a third time. Mad Rolling Eyes
@ George; thanks! Very Happy Yeah they both have a nice new lease on life and ready to relax for a while lol. Mine will be in the shed probably until I move out and Darren's will be safe in his collection. These are really cool too because they'r 320W PSMH. Cool And now they have PC sockets too.
GEsoftwhite100watts   [Jul 23, 2014 at 05:01 PM]
Did PSMH even exist in 1997? Or are these retrofited HPS or something?
streetlight98   [Jul 23, 2014 at 06:01 PM]
Well these were originally 400W HPS and retrofitted in the mid-2000s but yes, PSMH was around in 1997. It was only used indoors though and wasn't common. Low wattage 50-150W PSMH lamps have been around longer though. higher wattage PSMH lamps have only been around for the past 20 years or so.

These fixtures are special because they're PSMH. the M-400A2 was never made in PSMH, only HPS, MV, and probably probe start MH.

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