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1992 GE M-250R2
This is a Connecticut Power & Light fixture, stored in someone's garage for a decade+. A young couple just bought the house and didn't want this, an FCO M-250R2, a GE flood light, two mounting arms, and miscellaneous related parts. I bought it all for $60!

This light is clearly used by the obnoxious amount of filth inside it but it appears to have only been used for a short amount of time. Maybe 5 or 10 years max. the paint is still well intact; just barely starting to wear on the top between the PC socket and slipfitter. I cleaned the outside of the fixture. There's some moderate scratches/scuffs on the light. The refractor was broken (remnants of a bird nest inside the refractor) but the man included two spare refractors with the lot so I swapped the refractor out.

This light will be the only one of the three that will have to be taken apart and scrubbed down outside once the weather warms up since windex and paper towels won't cut it for this guy. I'd be cleaning it for years that way lol.
Keywords: American_Streetlights

1992 GE M-250R2

This is a Connecticut Power & Light fixture, stored in someone's garage for a decade+. A young couple just bought the house and didn't want this, an FCO M-250R2, a GE flood light, two mounting arms, and miscellaneous related parts. I bought it all for $60!

This light is clearly used by the obnoxious amount of filth inside it but it appears to have only been used for a short amount of time. Maybe 5 or 10 years max. the paint is still well intact; just barely starting to wear on the top between the PC socket and slipfitter. I cleaned the outside of the fixture. There's some moderate scratches/scuffs on the light. The refractor was broken (remnants of a bird nest inside the refractor) but the man included two spare refractors with the lot so I swapped the refractor out.

This light will be the only one of the three that will have to be taken apart and scrubbed down outside once the weather warms up since windex and paper towels won't cut it for this guy. I'd be cleaning it for years that way lol.

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HPSM250R2   [Feb 05, 2017 at 11:32 PM]
Cool Cool My 150 watt HPS M250R2 has the same ballast according to the nameplate in yours, NPF. Is it a teeny weeny ballast like mine is?
streetlight98   [Feb 05, 2017 at 11:51 PM]
It's smaller than I thought it would be. I guess the GE 50-150W HPS NPF ballasts are all the same size except the higher wattage ones are taller. My 70W HPS FCO M-250R2 has a thinner ballast but the same length and width (I think anyway... it's out in the shed so I'm going off the top of my head). Both this one and the FCO one are 150W 120V with NPF ballast with PC socket and Medium Type II distribution.
HPSM250R2   [Feb 06, 2017 at 12:00 AM]
I noticed the ballast in my 50 watt M250R2 was the same size as the ballast in my 150 watt M250R2. I don't have the 50 watt one anymore. They may have been slightly different. But from what I remember they were the same. How does that work? Wouldn't the 150 watt ballast need to be bigger?
streetlight98   [Feb 06, 2017 at 12:31 AM]
It would be bigger height wise. They're probably the same length and width (so the screw holes are the same distance on all of them) so they fit in the housing with one set of holes in the casting. But the height is different (so they have to use longer screws to secure the ballast to the fixture). There has to be some variation in the dimensions because you'd need to allow for more turns. I believe GE's 250 and 400W HPS ballasts are the same L & W too, the 400W one is just taller.

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