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American Electric This is my American Electric 100watt MV and 120volt. I got this 1-30-10 at a hardware store. The housing is made out of plastic. The ballast is very heavy and big! As you can see it has a PC socket instead of the PC built-in. The fixture can be mounted on a arm which is provided with the light. The socket is mogul. This fixture came with a Philips-Westinghouse bulb (H38JA-100/DX) made in September-1985. It also came with a ALR PC. The light was made in April-30-1986. Get more INFO here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNPDTKk_wfU See turning on here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqSLE1QTcE0 Keywords: American_Streetlights

American Electric

This is my American Electric 100watt MV and 120volt. I got this 1-30-10 at a hardware store. The housing is made out of plastic. The ballast is very heavy and big! As you can see it has a PC socket instead of the PC built-in. The fixture can be mounted on a arm which is provided with the light. The socket is mogul. This fixture came with a Philips-Westinghouse bulb (H38JA-100/DX) made in September-1985. It also came with a ALR PC. The light was made in April-30-1986.

Get more INFO here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNPDTKk_wfU
See turning on here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqSLE1QTcE0

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Album name:Parrot / Light fixtures
Keywords:American_Streetlights
Company and Date Manufactured:American Electric
Model Number:DR100M
Wattage:100
Lamp Type:MV
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Date added:Jan 31, 2010
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Form109   [Jan 31, 2010 at 10:21 PM]
i see a few of these around...they are my second favorite style ini Bucket..(Behind the Regent Accents)...never knew they were plastic.
dor123   [Feb 01, 2010 at 09:53 AM]
I think despite this fixture contain a MV and a ballast and looks like a mini street light, this is actually a household exterior fixture. Because it can have an indepent photocell (Like many PL entrance lights outside homes in Israel which contain internal photocells [Which acts as a house number and street name sign]). Street lights usually operated as a group of lanterns inside the neighborhood which all the lights in the group turn on and off by a one time switch or a one photocell.
lightman64   [Feb 01, 2010 at 11:32 PM]
Wow what a cool find!!! Where did you get this?? I sure wish I could find one!
Form109   [Feb 02, 2010 at 12:18 AM]
yes this is Designed for Outdoor Security Lighting....i usually see these on the walls...sometimes on the Pole.
dor123   [Feb 02, 2010 at 12:57 PM]
In the past in Israel there were also small fixtures with this design (But not this bucket shape) for security lighting with MVs. But today most of the fixtures used for security lighting are floodlights with 250W-400W HPSs and MHs, but there are still use of old small fixture with magnifying lens using 70W HPSs. Also because CRI is not important in outdoor security lighting, LPSs will be much more efficient then DX mercury and produce much more light at less wattage but at the expense of lamp life.
GullWhiz   [Feb 02, 2010 at 01:20 PM]
Where I used to live in Illinois there was a bunch of them on apartments (2 per apartment on parking lot side) and they were HPS....some had internal photocell and others had the same as above....there were some other types too like the cheap Regent yardblasters and some real NEMAs (not many)...
dor123   [Feb 02, 2010 at 03:09 PM]
In Israel the only fixtures that have a bulit in photocell or have an option for internal PC (Electronic only) are the PL entrance lights outside homes which act as a sign to display the street name and the number of the house. Any other means of exterior lighting in Israel don't have internal photocells in the fixtures but lit by a shared exterior photocell like in case of time switchs.
vaporeyes   [Feb 03, 2010 at 04:06 AM]
Great find - amazing it was still in a hardware store after several DECADES! I have the same fixture, though it came with a dayburning PC, a 175w clear mercury lamp in the socket, and no refractor. I restored it to the 70w HPS version & used the other components elsewhere.
Tmcdllr   [Feb 03, 2010 at 05:57 AM]
Way cool! This fixture used to come with a cleartop/clearband Westinghouse BT-25 lamp. I always liked these as they are very nice looking. In fact, I used to have the 70 watt HPS version of it, and it too came with a Westinghouse clear BT-25 lamp.
GullWhiz   [Feb 03, 2010 at 06:32 AM]
TmcDllr clearbands are only found on Sylvania mercs from the late 70s so it would be a clear top...
streetlight98   [Nov 13, 2010 at 06:40 PM]
Did you customize the plug?
Parrot   [Nov 13, 2010 at 10:04 PM]
What plug?
streetlight98   [Nov 14, 2010 at 03:18 PM]
On the youtube video, the plug you used to turn the fixture on?
Parrot   [Nov 14, 2010 at 04:14 PM]
I just used one of those plugs you put on the end of a cord, simple little thing...
icefoglights   [Nov 20, 2011 at 05:31 AM]
Great find! I remember still seeing these (with internal photocells) on store shelves, both in Mercury Vapor and "High Power Sodium."

I have one just like it, maybe being only a few months newer. What branding is on the PC socket?
Parrot   [Nov 24, 2011 at 01:52 AM]
The PC socket brand is ITT.
icefoglights   [Nov 24, 2011 at 02:05 AM]
Interesting. Mine is blank where the branding would be, and some newer NEMAs have American Electric branding on their sockets.
Parrot   [Nov 24, 2011 at 02:10 AM]
I wonder why they did not put a brand on yours maybe it is not original?
icefoglights   [Nov 24, 2011 at 02:16 AM]
It looks original (the fixture was NOS when I got it). It looks exactly the same as the ITT and AE ones, except its blank where the others say "ITT" or "American Electric"

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