That your house in the background?

@Streetlight98: I rather not report that since I wanted to see how long before anybody notice and the Cobb EMC would replace them by then Another part in my neighborhood area there is another streetlight that would only cycle in striking mode, then it dies.

@GEsoftwhite100watts: Yep

My house is set back on the property. Instead of a huge backyard, we have a huge front yard. So any light (MV for now.) will never reach my room on account of the trees in front of the house. Only way any light will reach my room is from future MV lights that I might install one day to light the front yard and small parking lot.

I don't have a huge anything on my property. Just a regular average-sized property. The backyard is bigger then the front though. My next-door neighboor barely has a backyard, just a larger front yard though our properties are about the same size. His house is just further back.

Here is the saga so far, I have noticed that this bulb itself is now more like a light shadow than that it shines into my bedroom. The lumen is already depreciated for now.

I don't have streetlights in my subdivision unfortunately. .there are hardly any people with any HID fixtures either, but our utility company DTE, somehow replaces lamps within a week of cycling, the door was open on a holophane fixture in the roundabout and they fixed it yesterday

Funny, my old neighborhood, I saw the posttop cycled once or twice.....i eventually got the bulb...it doesn't cycle....sometimes cycling happens during power dips..ya know...

My current neighborhood we have a posttop right at our property (under BGE) its a 150 watt HPS (yep 150) The county I live in requests for streetlights to be farther spaced, to preserve the looks and keep it darker. Where I live is more expensive and more planned areas. We only have 5 posttops in this 40 house neighborhood.

the light in front of my house cylced one night, but th next light down went off at the same time so i knew right then and there it had to been a power dip (and i was glad as there's a full mercury lamp in it!)

One of my neighbours recently replaced their HPS tallpacks with a 70w HPS yardlight (I'm guessing the ignitor on the tallpack failed ), it looks exactly like mine except that it's HPS.

Oh and I've seen a 100w R47 behave weirdly during cycling, instead of just going on and off over the night, this R47 will blink a couple times when on and then go out again.

I'm confused on what you said about the R47. Do you mean it's out at night but blinks on and off for a few seconds then goes back out again? Or it's on a night and blinks off and on a few times then stays on again?

at least they didn't relamp the tallpack with an incandescent or replace it with a motion dector head.

Hehe it's cycling but it also blinks for a while when the lamp is on.

Ahh so when it's restriking it blinks a lot? I've seen some lights here do that if they cycle for a long time. my guess is the electrodes wear badly and the lamp gets tougher to start. BTW, do hot-restrikes make an HID "age" faster? When a lamp is cycling, is it basically just doing a series of hot-restrikes? If yes to both, then i guess the electrodes wear much faster on a cycling lamp or when it's frequently switched?

Funny thing is I think it blinks just before shutting off. And yes I believe HID lamps do wear faster if you switch them alot. I think there was a guide that said a start on a RS/PS fluorescent takes around 1 hour off the life, IS takes 3 hours, and a HID takes 10 hours off.

Hmm. I wonder if the line voltage could be inconsistant? Sounds like an odd problem... Then again lamps are like people so each to its own.

Wow that's a lot of time! How many restrikes is that based off of?

i've seen that...blinking before going off...basically it was struggling to stay on..but failed to.....

Update: This morning I went out to check for incoming newspaper (It didn't come ) I discovered that they replaced the bulb. I talked to my mother and she said that our neighbor next door to the right called the utility company to have the bulb replaced


2013-3-31 19:27 rjluna2 wrote:

Lately this week started to cycle 2 or 3 in short cycle in intervals. Probably the igniter attempt to restrike then, stops. I was too tired to watch the whole cycle at each night

How did your mom know who called it in? I fill out an online form when i report lights (Click here.) I've probably reported over 100 street lights over the past few years. Most are in my city, Cranston. The rest are elsewhere in Rhode Island except a few from Seekonk, MA.

It was my neighbor that he call it in. He comes to our house to talk sometimes. We usually reported this through our electric utility (Cobb EMC).

I usually contact the municipalities since they are the ones who pay for the lights.

my city will tell you to contact NGrid if you contact city hall about a street light. they even have a link to NGrid's online street light outage report form, which i use.