Ouch! That pole took a beating! Looks like everything could be reused (except maybe for that 12-8-8 signal) but if they're anything like RIDOT, they'll just install all new stuff. None of the traffic signal poles here have street lights on them for whatever reason. The downtown ones have acorn post tops like these but never cobraheads. The post tops used to be MV with some HPS and some PSMH but they converted them all to induction and installed new globes since the old ones were slightly discolored. In the streetview they're induction but if you set the date to 2011 they're still HID.
Most of the time during these kind of events they end up replacing everything. There are a lot of situations where they have reused some fixtures. Ive seen all new signals and reused cobra, and ive seen signals being reused and cobra being replaced. Sometimes even one or two things would be reused. If you look at this pole anything 2009 or newer theres a R47, fortran signal and ped signal. One of the ped signals were reused. (the R47 is an extremely rare knock-down replacement now). Its buddy on the east side had also been knocked down years later. It got an AE 125 but also just a one ped signal was saved. The arm was an older arm for sure because its a lot dirtier looking than the original arm. Now those peds are all gone though so you wouldn't know it now. All are now double countdown LED fortrans.
Yeah I noticed that in RI I dont think I saw any signal poles with cobras on them.
I guess it depends on the contractor that replaces it. Here there seems to be some who reuse some fixtures. Now in most cases its all OVF'd
I'm guessing the R47s tat popped up in the mid-2000s were refurbs? Since i thought they stopped making the R47 in the 90s sometime when the R7 came out. Yeah they've been replacing the ped signals here with countdown models too. WOW! Why are those signal cobra poles so tall. Any taller and they'd be competing with highmasts lol.
I heard somewhere that new R47s went until 2002 or so so they might have been an unlisted item but I could be wrong. Brampton uses 40-50' foot poles for their signal cobras lol.
Oh wow that's cool! Seems like Canada uses a lot of unlisted items. The OV-25s/OVWs, the drop lens shoeboxes that you have one of, etc. Some special order things that come to mind that were used here by NEES (parent company of NECo and MECo) were the gray 120-277V PCs and the 100/175W M-250A2 FCOs with 240V ballasts and 120V PCs. Joe M. said that those were custom ordered for NEES, as at that time, the M-250A was still used for MV Powr/Doors and the M-250A2 was only used for 50-150W HPS, until they realized they could cram 250W gear into the fixture and ditched the M-250A around 1982-1984. Then in 1985 the M-250R2 came out and the M-250R1 was discontinued.
They had used 100/175W MV M-250R1s with the same 240V 120V PC set-up in the 1970s and early 80s too but when the M-250R2 came out, I think they switched to 120V single-wattage units. Interestingly, GE had labeled the voltage on the 240V 120V PC fixtures as "VOLTS 120X240; WIRED FOR 120X240", as if the ballast was dual-tap and wired for both voltages lol. I'm thinking that at the time, the 240V with 120V PC was not a standard offering and GE didn't know what to put lol. On my 1965 silver M-250R, the voltage is left blank, yet the amperage is marked as 0.9. The ballast was originally a 100W MV 240V choke with a 120V PC socket but I installed an OEM 175W MV 120/240V ballast, wired for 120V. I don't have any plans to put the original ballast back in but I will probably use the original ballast in another fixture at some point.
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Yeah I noticed that in RI I dont think I saw any signal poles with cobras on them.
I guess it depends on the contractor that replaces it. Here there seems to be some who reuse some fixtures. Now in most cases its all OVF'd
They had used 100/175W MV M-250R1s with the same 240V 120V PC set-up in the 1970s and early 80s too but when the M-250R2 came out, I think they switched to 120V single-wattage units. Interestingly, GE had labeled the voltage on the 240V 120V PC fixtures as "VOLTS 120X240; WIRED FOR 120X240", as if the ballast was dual-tap and wired for both voltages lol. I'm thinking that at the time, the 240V with 120V PC was not a standard offering and GE didn't know what to put lol. On my 1965 silver M-250R, the voltage is left blank, yet the amperage is marked as 0.9. The ballast was originally a 100W MV 240V choke with a 120V PC socket but I installed an OEM 175W MV 120/240V ballast, wired for 120V. I don't have any plans to put the original ballast back in but I will probably use the original ballast in another fixture at some point.