As a result of the Ice storm a few weeks ago this Shoebox was hit by a huge branch or a tree limb that fell from the storm causing the lens to fall out and the entire fixture to be upside down. The pieces of the lens are scattered under the snow and Ice. A new shoe box will likely replace this one.
wait until it rains... the ballast will be toast if the water makes contact with the coils lol. Even if the ballast and wiring doesn't short out, if it starts raining after the lamp as been running for a few hours, the lamp glass will shatter from thermal shock.
We had rain on the 13th IIRC. Yeah I thought it would have shortened and would be garbage. It still works but I guess maybe in time it will happen if its not taken care of
I live in this city as well. I have seen undamaged fixtures aiming at the sky too time to time, not sure how they end up that way, but it makes me laugh. Since 2012, I've seen a lot of these lights be replaced with refurbished parts, especially used and yellowed drop refractors.
Maybe a nosey mr-fixer got his wooden 10ft ladder and rotated it so it wouldn't short out and cut off his power (not that that would cause the power to go out but you know how clueless some people are lol). Speaking of clueless, I always laugh when people at a traffic light with a protected left turn signal think they won't get the arrow if they don't turn on their blinker lol.
I've never heard of that before Mike! I always laugh when people refer to a fluorescent light as a "neon" one and/or think there's a filament inside the tube! (well there is but not running the whole length).
i've never heard of the filament thing but i know in school everyone likes to shut off the classroom lights to cool off the room when its really hot. I'm sitting there thinking "fluorescent lights don't give off enough heat to make a difference in room tempereature. "
I laugh at the other students and even some teachers that think the fluorescent lights gave off heat. We'll be in the room and then the teacher would ask "would you like me to turn off the lights to cool down the room?" as soon as their off the teachers were like "Better?"
I remember my elementary school teachers doing that too. On the older magnetically ballasted lights it does help since they generated quite a bit of heat.
Ever wrote a exam in a building with steam heating radiators before? The banging from the expanding steam was so loud we ended up switching over to a room across the hall.
What i do is slam a desk up against it or if i can't do that I turn around with my back to it and bend my leg and slam the bottom of my foot against it and that shuts it up for a while.
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Didn't know that Cooper still made them though, I wonder if it's a unlisted item.