That's too bad that the light shines in your bedroom window. The light infront of my house shines on my bedroom window, but some nice thick navy blue shades solved that problem. In Roger Williams Park in Providence there are these wood poles with the lines running up conduit. When a wood pole needs replacement or it gets knocked over, an anchor base aluminum pole is installed. i personally like the wood pole with the conduit running up the side. There were actually standard 120v outlets on the pole to plug stuff in, but they're locked recently and the new metal poles used for spot replacement don't have the outlets.

We have 120v regular outlets on some telephone poles/street light poles around here about 5-6 feet off the ground. Weird, I know....you can plug anything into them, and they ALL work fine except for a vandalized one. I guess they must be circuit/fuse protected? I have no clue. They are old though, as they only have 2 prongs, and they are brown. The conduit runs up the pole to a mass of untracable wires, or some are wired inside the wood pole. People around here use them for holdiay decorations and yard work. Some actually use it running back to there house.

I've seen outlets on some poles here too usually in downtown cores, they're usually mounted out of reach to prevent people from messing with them.

The light in front of my house also shines in my window, but the curtains in the window take care of that. Strange that all of the poles have outlets on them, here the ones in downtown also have them but that's about it.

My house is on the house side of the light in front of it (we're not accross the street from it) so most of the glare is cut down, but there's still soem light which doesn't bother me any.

My house faces the street side of the lights on the street but that really isn't a problem since all the bedrooms have side or back facing windows.

Most of the light in my room actually comes from a HPS wallpack in someone's backyard.

Luckly I'm the only one with an HID fixture in my back yard. And luckly for my neighboors it's a 70w coated MH, not clear HPS and it's only one when needed, not dusk to dawn since my neighboorhood is very safe. No motion detectors here! Very dark and peaceful at night even thoguh it's a thickly settled neighboorhood.

Two of my neighbours have HID fixtures, both of them HPS tallpacks. I have two HID fixtures outside, a 35w HPS tallpack facing towards their tallpacks and a 100w merc patio light in the back which replaced a 500w halogen flood the previous owner put in.

I guess the people on my street like bright lights.

I guess so. most of my neighboorhoos is lit with either 100w HPS every-other pole, 50w HPS every-other pole, or 50w HPS every pole. One of the 100w MV M-250A2 FCO was spot replaced by a 100w HPS OVZ recently and I have to say, except for more light tresspass and the light casting a bit farther down the road, the newly lamped 100w MV M-250A2 FCO does almost as well as the 100w HPS OVZ when it comes to lighting the road with the added benifit of no (glare coated lamp), FCO for no light tresspass, crisp white light, and longer service life. NGrid still services 100w mercs, so the ballast must have fried in it.

At the moment, the bulb starts to cycle once every other hour during the night

I'll keep you posted as it gradually to more frequent light cycles

Once it starts cycling more frequently, i'd report it since the ignitor will probably die from the cycling lamp. If you report it now, it probabky won't get relamped since they wouldn't notice anythign wrong with it unless that camped out under it. I swear the street light before the one in front of my house cycles, but i never catch the full cycle. I see ith either totally off (only once did i see it off) or i see it restriking. It must be out for just a moment since 9/10 times i look at it it's on normally. I'm thinking of videotaping the light at night for about an hour or so to see if it's actually cycling or if i'm just nuts!

That your house in the background?

@Streetlight98: I rather not report that since I wanted to see how long before anybody notice and the Cobb EMC would replace them by then Another part in my neighborhood area there is another streetlight that would only cycle in striking mode, then it dies.

@GEsoftwhite100watts: Yep

My house is set back on the property. Instead of a huge backyard, we have a huge front yard. So any light (MV for now.) will never reach my room on account of the trees in front of the house. Only way any light will reach my room is from future MV lights that I might install one day to light the front yard and small parking lot.

I don't have a huge anything on my property. Just a regular average-sized property. The backyard is bigger then the front though. My next-door neighboor barely has a backyard, just a larger front yard though our properties are about the same size. His house is just further back.

Here is the saga so far, I have noticed that this bulb itself is now more like a light shadow than that it shines into my bedroom. The lumen is already depreciated for now.

I don't have streetlights in my subdivision unfortunately. .there are hardly any people with any HID fixtures either, but our utility company DTE, somehow replaces lamps within a week of cycling, the door was open on a holophane fixture in the roundabout and they fixed it yesterday

Funny, my old neighborhood, I saw the posttop cycled once or twice.....i eventually got the bulb...it doesn't cycle....sometimes cycling happens during power dips..ya know...

My current neighborhood we have a posttop right at our property (under BGE) its a 150 watt HPS (yep 150) The county I live in requests for streetlights to be farther spaced, to preserve the looks and keep it darker. Where I live is more expensive and more planned areas. We only have 5 posttops in this 40 house neighborhood.

the light in front of my house cylced one night, but th next light down went off at the same time so i knew right then and there it had to been a power dip (and i was glad as there's a full mercury lamp in it!)

One of my neighbours recently replaced their HPS tallpacks with a 70w HPS yardlight (I'm guessing the ignitor on the tallpack failed ), it looks exactly like mine except that it's HPS.

Oh and I've seen a 100w R47 behave weirdly during cycling, instead of just going on and off over the night, this R47 will blink a couple times when on and then go out again.