Is that the M400R2 I see in the bottom right corner?

Nice! I see the model 13! Are you going to eventually restore it or leave it original? Krylon Pewter Gray is almost an exact match of the old paint used. BTW, i thought you originally had two poles to begin with? A wood pole and a metal EMT pole? You should mount the M-400R2 just to see how bright it is outside lol. I might do that with my M-400A2 when I finally get a new pole for outside. I miss not having a light pole outside. The old one I had rigged up was very crude so a better one is needed. I didn't trust it enough, as it was just held up with zipties. Anyway, the M-400A2 is 320W PSMH, originally 400W HPS 277V but the parking lot i took-er- got it from converted it to PSMH.

Then they redid the parking lot and installed LED shoeboxes and left the lights in the corner and i called and emailed them with no response so I just took the two M-400A2s... There were also two M-1000s and a Hubbell RLG but they were gone when i came back the next day, stolen by scrappers. The reason the M-400A2s were left behind was because they were both still installed on the pole while the others were on their arms, but the arms were off the poles. When I saw that the other lights were gone I just took the M-400A2s and glad I did since the person who took the other lights came back the next night and chopped up the light pole the A2s were on, leaving the base section with about 4ft of pole there for some reason. Maybe it couldn't fit in the truck...

I tried to do things the right way but they didn't respond and someone else stole most of it so I'd rather take them ans save them rather than someone else steal them and sell them to a scrap yard and turn them into beer and soda cans. At least I'm not making money off of them like the "other guy" did. I restored both of them and one is going to Darren and I'm going to hang onto the other. Also added PC sockets to them.

BTW, is that an L-150!

@ Ryan, why yes it is the M-400R2! It's been sitting in storage since I've had it but I do fire it up once in a while.

@ Mike, I did have the EMT setup but I had a new shed built last year and I installed another 20' utility pole next to the shed so now there is two utility poles in the yard.

In going to leave the model 13 as is since I like the vintage look of it. I would like to install the M-400R2 but I'm not so sure how the neighbors will like it lol!

And yes you also see an L-150! That one is 100 watt HPS!

Ah so the EMT pole was replaced by the new utility pole? Cool! Ah. I have the NEMA tag for your model 13. (Courtesy of Joe Wan)

Maybe you can install the Model 13 outside instead? The M-400R2 is worth it for one night for the pic. It would be funny seeing such a bright light lighting a yard, though it's HPS lol. I'm leaving my M-250R from 1965 original too, though I changed the ballast so it's technically not original.

Oh wow did you get it from work? I'd like to score and L-150 but they're not common. I don't have the room anyways so if I got one I'd have to make another light pole display or something lol. There's a 70W HPS L-150 in front of my mom's friend's house that lost it's door. It was recently relamped a couple years ago too, and has a ET23.5 lamp, proving my speculation that NGrid was using Sylvania lamps. I'm not going to report it since it would get replaced, as the L-150 is too rare of a light for them to have a door on hand. Typically they only replace M-250R2 doors and occasionally 113 doors. If they happen to have a door, great but otherwise it's time for a new light. There's only so many spare parts that can fit in a bucket truck...

BTW, is that 13's lens broken?

Yeah the EMT pole is long gone. I actually changed the bracket the Autobahn is on and used that arm on the new pole. I was thinking about installing the 13 but I was waiting for the new tag lol. It's lens is not broken, might just be the angle. It's actually a brand new acrylic AEL lens I have in if currently since the original is very brittle and don't know how much it can take.

I got the L-150 off eBay a few years back, I just never got around to posting pics of it. The ballast is also 240 volts so I have to use the dryer outlet to fire it up.

I also have photocells for you to. They are on my truck currently and I won't have them till next week since I'm on vaca.

Ah My new pole is actually going to be EMT, well it was. i think it's going to be an old fece post now. My grandpa is getting it for me since his friend has a bender that can hopefully bend the metal since those prefab conduit bends are too short for the refractor doors on lights to be removed.

Ah it's 240V? That's odd, typically 150W and under is 120v since reactor ballasts can be used. The same reason why 240V mercs were so common, though out of New England a lot of mercs were 120V but NEES used 240V ones with the PC wired for 120V. Made it easy to convert to 120V since the neutral was already run through the arm. All they had to do was snip the second hot wire off.

Ah no worries, enjoy your vacation! After all the blizzards, hurricanes, and other crazy things mother nature decides to do you deserve it. My friend's dad works with transmission lines, though he doesn't deal with distribution, only lines before substations.

Up in NH, I've seen some 150 watt HPS wired at 240 volts. Doesn't seen to be common anymore but it has been done.

Nice workshop. I hope to have one someday, My garage is being over run by fixtures.

I hope to have a nice workshop space too. I live in a raised ranch and if anyone else here does too, you know the lack of "unused" space available.

Nice setup, Antstar85

LOL I live in a "hodgepodge" and feel like I'm running out of spaces in what's really 2 houses (A whole other unit built onto it with provisions for kichen, master bedroom, etc but never finished).

Thanks!
I also live in a raised ranch so I'm limited on space! Someday I plan on putting an addition on the house.

ah yeah raised ranches are nice but not when it comes to storage space. My area has raised ranches because of the high water table but also raised ranches are more economical because there's less concrete involved as they only have to make the basement as deep as the frost line instead of 7 feet or so.

I used to live in a 4 story house (1st was garage/walk-out basement built into hill and 4th was loft) and it was actually rather small! There was also no bathroom on the primary floor (kitchen/dining area/living room) which became a problem for my late mother in her final months.