This one my friends, IS a Line Materials arm!

This one my Friends has a clear Mercury Lamp.

This is one nice light and is lucky to still be in service.

it won't be there long,the City is rampantly changing out their old mercs for new sodium fixtures.

Better than LED or Induction

Better than LED, probably....better than Induction...WRONG in most people's eyes....most people LOVE the inductions as far as I know!

Well they might love CMH if they would try it

I'd rather see CMH over induction because it's still HID and doesn't have problems in the cold as far as I know.

Plus it is more efficient.

And I'm pretty sure that CMH lumes are cheaper than induction and LED lumes.

Yeah, and higher quality too, I see the 125 and 325 now come in CMH, with drop lens!

Yeah, and CMH would be easier to retrofit in existing lumes without a big effect on the light distribution.

Here's a reasonable thinking...

Icetrons for electric companies who's terrible in maintaining streetlights......
CMH for good and fast streetlight maintaining companies!

@niall i'd Rather have HPS over LED yes (For streetlights anyway) i've seen LED installations and usually the color is better but the illumination is much dimmer than the original lighting.

Ceramic Metal Halide is better IMO...than say....traditional quartz MH,and it seems like a Viable Option,but so does induction....

Standard MH doesn't have a long enough life though, CMH so far has a 20,000 hour life.

still kinda short...but better than 10K and 8K Hours.

I'm sure it will improve though, early HPS didn't have a 24,000 hour life.

Well, it really doesn't last 2400. Not with that low mercury crap they're passing off as "better".

Ummm Niall I have some HPS that was in service for 20 years and removed from service and given to me, still working...I have one from 1977....its a base down only HPS....and my first HPS lamp in collection was from a fallen posttop and had more than 8 years of service plus I also have another lamp that was installed the same time as the one from fallen posttop, except it was in service for 10 years instead and still working, I got that one from my former's house street...(the court where I used to live). Those 2 latter HPS lamps were Philips from 1997.....before ALTOs.......athough I have some ALTOs that made it more than 5 to 7 years....

I have a lot of used HID lamps used from different streetlights....

I have some more used HPS lamps that has lasted really long.....the only thing I have never really seen is really long used MH lamps....

I'm talking about the first experimental ones, which is really the stage CMH is still in.