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Revere Urban-Lite
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Got a couple of these at a antique market yesterday. The Revere Urban-Lite (aka Pea-Head) was similar to a Form 175 since they were both remote ballasted fixtures designed for 100-250w mercury lamps. They also accept standard mogul base incandescent lamps but they were designed more for mercury lamps. Since these have fairly roomy slipfitters, a small ballast like a 35-150w HPS choke might fit. I suppose these could be converted to HPS fairly easily.
Revere fixtures are very rare here with none remaining in the wild.
It's shown here cleaned up and wired up. The lamp is a GE Bonusline 175w /W that came with one of the fixtures.
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@Mike, Thanks and yeah I should clean up the other one too lol. Interestingly it has a different refractor. Before I got these, I thought they used a medium socket since they're so small. I wonder if Ontario had any other Reveres back in the day.
@Devonte, thanks yeah I found an ad calling them the Urban-Lite. I wonder who came up with the name Pea Head then.
I guess it sort of looks like a pea. I don't know where the term "cobrahead" came from. OV-25s, M-400s, etc look nothing like a cobra, sorry guys. If the name does anything it tells non-collectors to back off or suffer the deadly attck of the cobrahead! Mwahahaha!!!
Yeah I guess it sorta does look like a pea, as for cobrahead, I believe the first gen (flatbottom) OV-25 was where the name came from. The ballast and slipfitter cover on those had a corrugated pattern that sorta resembled the scales on that flap of skin around a cobra's head.
I thought these were Forms 175. Too bad they aren't common anymore in parking lots
Im thinking of going on a hunt to some restores here to see what lights and signals I can find
As for Restore, I don't recall seeing any street lights recently but here's what they have in terms of HID.
Brampton - I think the 250w MH parking garage light is still there. Also some HPS tallpacks.
Mississauga - There's some 100w MH wallpacks
Vaughan - there might be a 150w HPS Cooper flood left
Barrie - had a bunch of 250w MH parking garage lights, a 70w HPS yardlight, and a 100w HPS wallpack
As for signals your best bet is either Kijiji or antique shops. Not sure if they're still there but there's a antique shop just north of Newmarket with some signals when I went there back in April. They had two Fortran 12-12-12s and a Eagle Mark IV 12-8-8. Both were incandescent but they didn't have visors.