Incandescent, incandescent, incandescent, nothing else in sight!
In a wealthy neighborhood in Los Angeles near Encino/Sherman Oaks in the hillsides. So nice to find this little escape spot from the computer chips that light much of LA LA land now. All the fixtures are gumballs/teardrops, on a 6.6A series circuit.
Not to be a party pooper, but eventually, those fixtures will be replaced and the circuit upgraded to a multiple type, likely 120V. And there are a plethora of LED fixtures that are quite stylish and would fit well with the architectural landscape of the neighborhood.
It's bound to happen. Series incandescent lamps are no longer manufactured. The city already installed a number of LED teardrops in other areas. But the good news: the city converted a number of the antique teardrops to induction!
Induction? Neat!
Dave, if you ever get to SLO county, go up Highway 1 and look at Harmony, CA, population 18, and the old GE teardrops on vintage wrought-iron-type arms on some buildings. They used to be MV apparently when they were at Fort San Luis, (I assume remote "paint-can" ballasts) but are now incandescent with standard household bulbs (Or maybe now they have a corkscrew infestation for all I know).
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Dave, if you ever get to SLO county, go up Highway 1 and look at Harmony, CA, population 18, and the old GE teardrops on vintage wrought-iron-type arms on some buildings. They used to be MV apparently when they were at Fort San Luis, (I assume remote "paint-can" ballasts) but are now incandescent with standard household bulbs (Or maybe now they have a corkscrew infestation for all I know).