I checked out this light today and it appears to still be wired. It's feed from another pole will a 60's m-400. The next thing is the night drive to see if it's still working!
*UPDATE* This fixture has been removed from service from a road upgrade project and has been replaced with a 400 watt HPS GE M-400R3. I was unable to save it.
Hmm sounds like NGrid with replacing mercs with the same wattage in HPS. though NGrid probably would have used a 6ft upsweep arm to replace the nice underbraced arm.
Ugh they didn't keep the nice underbraced arm either? NGrid tends to replace them becuase of the remote ballasts typically attached to them (PCBs) but Narragansett Electric typically left the old remote ballasts on many of the arms. When a pole is upgraded they'll keep the arm though and just to transfer the ballast can.
Aw man that's a shame. I guess NGrid really isn't that wasteful then. The weirdest thing is that they will remove old stuff and put up new stuff out of the blue yet sometimes when a new light is installed, they'll use an older tapered eliptical or cantilver or even a truss (though the light is always new). I've seen old brown insulators used when a cross arm breaks too where the old ones were gray. Sometimes the replace, replace, replace with new stuff and sometimes they end up replacing something with something else that had already been taken out of service. They're so unpredictable lol. Well, at least they never fail to keep me entertained at the least. Even though i hate seeing old stuff go, it's always interesting to see what they replace and what they keep. It seems to be totally random to, no particular pattern.
Too bad it's gone. Most lights and arms on utility poles are transferred over but lights and arms on standalone poles get trashed and replaced during a pole replacement.
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though NGrid probably would have used a 6ft upsweep arm to replace the nice underbraced arm.
NGrid tends to replace them becuase of the remote ballasts typically attached to them (PCBs) but Narragansett Electric typically left the old remote ballasts on many of the arms. When a pole is upgraded they'll keep the arm though and just to transfer the ballast can.
The weirdest thing is that they will remove old stuff and put up new stuff out of the blue yet sometimes when a new light is installed, they'll use an older tapered eliptical or cantilver or even a truss (though the light is always new). I've seen old brown insulators used when a cross arm breaks too where the old ones were gray. Sometimes the replace, replace, replace with new stuff and sometimes they end up replacing something with something else that had already been taken out of service. They're so unpredictable lol. Well, at least they never fail to keep me entertained at the least. Even though i hate seeing old stuff go, it's always interesting to see what they replace and what they keep. It seems to be totally random to, no particular pattern.