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Doesn't This Seem at Least the Least Bit Alarming?! The Warwick Mall repalced their aluminum tapered E poles holding 250W ITT 13s with massive shoebox poles a while back and look what they did! They cut the old anchor bolts and just drilled the new ones into the existing base on a diagonal angle! O_O They had to run a few conduit lines too since apparently a few links failed during the March 2010 floods that made this whole lot up to 10ft underwater in the worst spots! Keywords: Miscellaneous

Doesn't This Seem at Least the Least Bit Alarming?!

The Warwick Mall repalced their aluminum tapered E poles holding 250W ITT 13s with massive shoebox poles a while back and look what they did! They cut the old anchor bolts and just drilled the new ones into the existing base on a diagonal angle! O_O They had to run a few conduit lines too since apparently a few links failed during the March 2010 floods that made this whole lot up to 10ft underwater in the worst spots!

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traffic light1   [Nov 01, 2012 at 11:26 PM]
I do not think the lines failed. I say this because I was with the street light guys as the were testing the lights and they worked. ? what were the thinking when they drilled the new ones into the existing base?
streetlight98   [Nov 02, 2012 at 12:16 AM]
Please tell my you got one of the lights!!! Razz Very Happy i think the ITT 13s were originally 250W HPS, but were converted to MH before they were removed.
traffic light1   [Nov 02, 2012 at 12:42 AM]
This was befor they removed them and after the flood Crying or Very sad
streetlight98   [Nov 02, 2012 at 01:46 AM]
Aww man! I saw the dumpster with the old poles sticking out of it but my mom said "no kid of mine is going dumpster diving!". The thing was probably filled with lights too. Crying or Very sad
traffic light1   [Nov 02, 2012 at 11:28 PM]
Well is your mom with it?? Takeing street lights from a dumster is fine! Very Happy Or does she think you will not get out or hurt. that happend with me when I was 11 I was not tall and was some what overwight so it was very hard for me to get out. Now I am 5' 9" or 5' 10" so it is not hard for me to get lights out of the dumpster. You let me know if there are street lights in a dumpster and I will get them for you! Cool
streetlight98   [Nov 03, 2012 at 02:36 AM]
Well, i think the big reason is that my space is filled! I'm allowed a very small amount of space for lights unfortunatly. Thanks a ton for the offer though! If in do see any lights around I will let you know so at least you may be able to get it!
traffic light1   [Nov 03, 2012 at 01:18 PM]
Ok, my dads home is on 13 acres of land and I am all ways putting up new lights Very Happy so let me know Very Happy
streetlight98   [Nov 03, 2012 at 03:18 PM]
Ahh I keep all my lights indoors. Since I prefer to restore them, putting them outside would be counterintuitive, though I hope to get a light up outside eventually.
GEsoftwhite100watts   [Nov 03, 2012 at 11:05 PM]
If your pole was strong enough would there still be that remote ballasted OV25 out there?
streetlight98   [Nov 03, 2012 at 11:55 PM]
Yeah. Sad it'd be up until the M-250A was totally complete, then the M-250A would go up. Cool I'm hoping at least the NEMA head Jace will eventually be sending me will be light enough for the cheap fence post to support. It really sucks when you go all out on somethign and it backfires on you. Mad Well, if the NEMA can't be safely supported by the set-up, I'll have to send the NEMA back to Jace or someone else since I have no room to hold onto it is it doesn't. Neutral
joe_347V   [Nov 04, 2012 at 02:31 AM]
I think NEMA heads should be pretty light unless it has something like a glass refractor or a gumball assembly on it.
streetlight98   [Nov 04, 2012 at 02:05 PM]
Yeah about the weight of a 175W MV yardblaster right? I'm pretty sure that would be light enough... The bucket is polycarbonate.
joe_347V   [Nov 04, 2012 at 05:29 PM]
Well I guess if it's still too heavy you could always remote ballast it. Laughing
streetlight98   [Nov 04, 2012 at 06:33 PM]
Yeah I could. Laughing I may have to install the shorter arm though to reduce the swaying caused by the light catching the wind. My OV-25 was swinging back and fourth in a light breeze when it was up that day.
traffic light1   [Nov 05, 2012 at 12:12 AM]
metal fatigue Shocked
streetlight98   [Nov 05, 2012 at 01:01 AM]
what do you mean?
GEsoftwhite100watts   [Nov 05, 2012 at 01:19 AM]
Well to me it looks like they had no choice but to go diagonally because of the old anchor bolts being in the way. The old bolts were probably too rusty/stripped out to be re-used and may have not matched up anyway. So it almost seems legitimate, but I still think it's kinda ugly
streetlight98   [Nov 05, 2012 at 01:25 AM]
Yes, but new bases should have been poured since it seems unsafe to be reusing the bases. Plus some of the bases are deteriorating anyways and looked unsafe even with the old poles.
GEsoftwhite100watts   [Nov 05, 2012 at 01:27 AM]
Yeah, it looks like the concrete base has seen better days...when were these originally installed?
BTW what do you think of my new profile pic? Are non-lighting-related profile pics allowed?
streetlight98   [Nov 05, 2012 at 01:28 AM]
I think the mall was built in the early 70s... The cobraheads were from the 70s so the bases are at least that old... alos yeah your avitar is fine! looks cool too!

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