When I installed the M-250 R2 replacing the 115 yesterday, the photocell worked just fine, I plugged the light in the lamp ignited for a second then turned off, like it should do. So it turned on for the night, and sure enough it didn't want to turn back OFF! I came outside today to take a picture and spotted this light on.
I got a new dayburner PC now. xD
I replaced the PC with another one and that one seems to work.
You can see where it was pointing and it was very bright outside. I think it just doesn't wanna work, it has been in service for a while. Well the new one works great though.
For a while? LOL I've seen photocells in service for 30 years and more and hasn't dayburned...in fact I got a collection of 30 years and up Photocells!
I still see from time to time photocontrols installed back in the HPS conversion that still work. In the complete opposite I see photocontrols that aren't even a year old already dayburning XD.
Some PCs here are INSTALLED as dayburners! I know they do their repairs at night here, but what a shame they don't even spend a second to to even test the PC after installing it.
Where i live, LCEC repairs lights on city roads at night. But on residential roads, they only repair them if someone roports them. I report lights whenever i can. But i have reported cycling lights before, and instead of just installing a new lamp, they replace the whole fixture.
@ Mike, I rarley replace ignitors. we don't buy them but i'll save a few from fixtures if they still work and change them out if its a quick fix, other than that I'll change out the whole fixture. Cycling fixtures I will change the lamp and Photocell.
@ HPSM250R2, We use FP OLC Electronic controls and they are not the best out there, I'd say 2 out of every 10 I install dayburn in less than a year.
Hmm. How come they don't buy ignitors? I know there was talk that time is more important, but really it's cheaper AND faster to change an ignitor. I'd imagin with those gloves you'd probably break those cheesy GE ignitors....
yes, I was aware they had the option, I was just saying our AE's Don't have the plug in ignitors. The GE ignitors are a pain to change with gloves on, thats why I'll usually fix one on the ground and end up using it somewhere else. The same thing with capacitors.
I don't think NGrid allows used materials to be reused because when they do temporary set-ups, they use brand new lights. Then more brand new lights will be installed when they permanet do that intersection. They don't transfer the temporary lights over to the new poles for some reason.
Antstar85, FP OLC uses two different types of circuit boards in their electronic controls. Paper boards, which are the cheaper option, and a type of fiberglass circuit board which costs more. If the ones you install have that bad of a failure rate, they are probably the paper boards. Although the circuit board probably doesnt have a lot to do with dayburners. Its when the relay wears out probably.
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@ HPSM250R2, We use FP OLC Electronic controls and they are not the best out there, I'd say 2 out of every 10 I install dayburn in less than a year.