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175W MV McGraw-Edison NEMA Head
Sans bucket. I have spare reflectors but not any extra bucket diffusers. Doesn't matter though since this doesn't work. :-( the photocell clicks, suggesting the fixture has power, but lamp doesn't light, but when I unplug it, the electrode closer to the base flashes. With an incandescent lamp, nothing happens. Maybe there's a bad connection or loose wire. This supposedly worked when it was removed and is in decent shape aside from rusty slipfitter bolts and ballast core.
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175W MV McGraw-Edison NEMA Head

Sans bucket. I have spare reflectors but not any extra bucket diffusers. Doesn't matter though since this doesn't work. :-( the photocell clicks, suggesting the fixture has power, but lamp doesn't light, but when I unplug it, the electrode closer to the base flashes. With an incandescent lamp, nothing happens. Maybe there's a bad connection or loose wire. This supposedly worked when it was removed and is in decent shape aside from rusty slipfitter bolts and ballast core.

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HPSM250R2   [Aug 01, 2016 at 12:24 AM]
Awesome Smile Hopefully you can get it to work. This would be cool to use on your property.
streetlight98   [Aug 01, 2016 at 01:31 AM]
Hopefully... Yeah it's a nice NEMA. Not a big NEMA fan though, since they're glarebombs but yeah, this one would look nice.
streetlight98   [Aug 01, 2016 at 02:36 AM]
OK well, turns out a ballast winding wire broke where it was crimped onto a spade connector. It's the spade connector for the wire that goes to the socket. So I need to somehow fix that. I'm thinking that I will omit the slip-on connectors and just solder the socket wire to the broken ballast wire. The ballast windings are aluminum though. I think aluminum is tricky to solder...

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