The newer Cooper hinge design is better than the older one, the older ones broke more often than the newer ones.

Has this been fixed?

Needs more tape

Just saw this light last week, still looks just like this.

Maybe when it falls a second time they'll change the door.

I don't know what is so appealing in repairing everything with electrical tape! Less expensive than replacing parts, yeah, but seriously, some electricians are just not proud of their jobs! I've still not completed my class and I have already seen so many jobs that were horrible. Last one was an outlet with reversed wires (Black <-> White). I simply removed the outlet and let the piece of cable unchanged, I think I'm gonna take a pic of that

Although it doesn't beat the second last horror I've seen last week: live NMD cables cut short on a breaker panel! and a loose neutral busbar XD. Fortunately all of that was at school in my home automation module's cabin, so I was there to fix those LOL.

Personally i see electrical tape as a temporary fix, but some people don't treat it as one. The one thing I hate about electrical tape is that it's not stickey enough sometimes.

*UPDATE* The door has fallen of again and now is just up without the door. Funny how we the electric company just can't put up a new fixture. It's not like we don't have any.

wow how ironic!

[sarcastic]They should use more tape next time.[/sarcastic]

I've seen street lights lose their doors too in my area and they're never replaced until they fail.

The comment of mine above from 27 Sep 2011 at 03:02 [quote] ummm we have a dayburning AE 327 with 1000 watt merc and its hidges is broken so it got the tape, and its been holding up VERY VERY well for about 3 or 4 years very nicely! [/quote]
has finally been fixed, but still has the same fixture with new tape in it...holds WELL!!!!

Well I guess now it's a nighttime-friendly light now.

I can't imagine how bright 1000w HPS is. Also, those AEL 327's are pretty expensive fixtures...

It's like a huge fire inside a cobrahead.

They are super bright, It's tough when your going up a pole at 2am to refuse a blown cutout and have one of these bad boys blasting in your eyes.

Those 1000 watt metal halide cobraheads are very bright too. Recently New Kensington had a 400 watt HPS streetlight replaced with a Cooper Lighting OVL 1000 watt metal halide streetlight.

Yeah I guess the only 1000W lamp that I wouldn't classify as a mini sun would be MV lamps. I think PSMH lamps are the worst 1000W lamps in terms of eye sores becuase the glow is so concentrated in that tiny arc tube that PSMH lamps have.