ironically the dayburner in this pic is a brand new fixture too with a brand new PC. most of the dayburners are actually brand new fixtures with new PCs. there's even a brand new fixture with an old baby blue PC isntead of a grayish brownish black new one and that light is not a dayburner. go figure.

The PC's around here don't always function correctly on the new OVX's. They turn on and off all night.

that's not the photocell that's the lamp. When HPS lamps die they will cycle on an off until either the arc tube leaks or the igniter dies. As long as the lamp cycles only at night and is off during the day then the PC is fine. There is a way that a photocell can cycle a lamp though. If the photocell can "see" the light that it is controlling, when the light turns on, it'll shine into the photocell and shut off. then the photocell doesn't see the light anymore and turns the light back on. then it sees light and shuts it off. That would make the lamp cycle on and off every couple of seconds though. What you're seeing is defiently cycling lamps, especially since you see it with the OVXs. Those things are lamp friers with 400W HPS lamps lol.

woops lol they are i see OVX's replaced faster than Powerlites that are over 20 years old

yeah 400W lamps in small fixtures is not a good idea because all that heat builds up and it kills the lamps faster and wears out the capacitor faster too. IMO, for HPS, anything over 150W HPS should be in a medium sized fixture. For MH and MV anything over 250W should be in a medium fixture. the lamps are designed to be in fixtures that way for best optical performance. 250W HPs is supposed to be a medium sized fixture wattage and 250W MH and MV are supposed to be small sized fixture wattages. Same here with newer fixtures being replaced faster than the remaining older fixtures. Even the older small sized 250W HPS seem to hold up better than the newer fixtures today.

Maybe suggestions should be made with the city and peel about the OVX's. I have seen the first OVR 250W in use in Brampton. I think 250w is good enough on a 50ft aluminum pole

OVR? Did you mean OVx? I think it's up to the contractor about what lights are used but the city could pursuade them not to use the OVX i suppose... Here the street lights on utility poles are maintained by the electric company and lights on the freeway with photocells like these are also maintained by the electric company and the lights are leased to the state for an annual fee. They group service the lights in freeways with individual PCs. The lights that are controlled by relays are serviced by RISE, which is who NGrid contracts work out to. I'm not sure who owns the lights though. I think the state does...

Hmm, OVXs are quite common in Peel Region so I think he might be talking about the OVF which is common in York Region but rare in Peel Region.

Over here the freeway lights are owned by MTO and they pay the utility for the electricity but they have a contractor for the maintenance.

It is a OVR. It looks reused though. Almost every 4 lane or more road in peel region has atleast 1 OVX on it. Have you seen the lowered highmasts on the 407 they have the lumes on the ground too.

You mean this? That's the OVR. I thought it was only an export light. The Powerlite R7 looks similar. See below:
click here.

I've never seen a OVR too but if it's painted it probably won't be a R7 since they were bare like all the other Powerlites. In fact the only painted Powerlites I've seen were in Toronto and those were probably old mercs rebuilt to HPS.

It wasn't painted. Im debating what it is,it might just be a R7. Whatever it is it replaced a AE 125. Im going to get the actual photo of it.

UPDATE: They fixed all the jersey barrier mounted lights. they all work and none dayburn. However, many of the single light poles that are mounted on the shoulders of the freeway on the ramps and on the insterstate that passes under this freeway keep going out after they're fixed. NGrid is taking their sweet time fixing the rest of the lights and some of the lights they fixed have gone out. It's the wiring though.

As far as I know, the lights are hooked up to fuses so the lights are blowing out in sections only a few days after they're fixed, meaning there's something wrong with the wiring. there are so many missing poles and exposed pole bases so the wiring has likely suffered since the conduit that runs up the base and has wires that are supposed to run up the pole is exposed and water can get in since there's no pole covering the conduit. Plus I'm sure where are exposed wires and possibly frayed insulation.

I think they should just replace the lights if they can't get them to work but since they've already tried fixing them it would be a waste of parts. I haven't seen them attempt to replace missing poles though. There's like 30+ missing poles at this one interchange.