Here is yet another TwistPak being replaced, I find it odd how far back they put the pole! The eight foot arm barely reaches the road in this location.
FCO isn't glary until you look directly at the reflector, then it becomes very glary. I think drop lens lights are much more consistent for one, I have an idea about a possible night shot showing some FCO vs drop refractor that I may be able to take soon.
exactly, stay clear of catching a view of FCO in the wrong driection. Yeah FCO's can appear they just turned on as you approach underneath. Nice, I will be anticipating a night shot comparison.
Attention Ontario, Canada people... brampton is a whole phase behind (it's not about FCO anymore, but LED), mississauga could start a WHOLE CITY LED retrofit this summer, let the war begin.
Hmm, it looks like at this rate HPS could be gone within the next ten years, I know Vaughan already has a lot of LEDs. Fortunately Markham only recently switched to FCO HPS and Toronto still installs new drop lens.
They're gonna be sorry they switched to LED after a while. I personally think everyone should wait until LEDs improve more and until the prices comes down. There is no need to switch to LED now because the fixtures cost too much and the quailty isn't determined.
Just wondering, where did you hear that? I hope it isn't true, than again it could be a way to get a bunch of lights. From the guy I know at Mississuga Hydro he liked CMH better. I wonder if the real agenda for the new lights was to be able to convert them to LED with the least possible cost and effort? If Brampton goes LED, along with the rest of the GTA then its game over for my collecting. On a side note both sets of lights where on last night for some reason.
Well, my city is in the process of a full LED change out as we all saw my road was replaced to LED this week. Hopefully my work will stay away from full LED replacements but the way things are changing here, I doubt that will happen.
I tried to paste the press release from the mississagua city website about the full city LED replacement movement...but it deleted the link. I found out on the news, the 91 year old mayor is like "for the first time the city is borrowing money, and its for replacing all streetlights to LED, we'll get full return on invenstment in 8 years based on energy savings". LOL, You can't ask for a better bulk deal order though. There are some interesting LEDs on a road near square one mall already.
@gail, the twistpack is putting up a fighht! but there are actually TONS of twistpacks left in the city if you look for the hoods.
@jow: CMH seems to not radiate light as well as HPS to our eyes, and toronto seems to only use them in populated downtoawn areas with a lot of other retail lights already on.
oh! the cooper light of this thread comes in an LED verson, which is one of the first HPS bodies i've seen come in LED. Maybe brampton will sneak some in, and we'll only find out by going on scavenger hunts to see if any will be LED down the road haha.
I found where it said that the proposal was going to be presented before council, but nothing saying it had been approved... I then emailed the city of Mississauga who took the lazy way out and directed me to Enersource like the contractor can help me. I emailed them back again to see what they say. Yes I know there are plenty of TwistPaks in Brampton, however they are all going to be replaced if the city of Brampton has it's way.
All of holyokes lights are on the way to the dumpster, which Is about 5,500 are in their way to the scrap dumpster, I'd say a 1/3 of the city has now been replaced.
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I also wonder why almost no utilities in the GTA aside from Toronto really considered using CMH streetlights.
@gail, the twistpack is putting up a fighht! but there are actually TONS of twistpacks left in the city if you look for the hoods.
@jow: CMH seems to not radiate light as well as HPS to our eyes, and toronto seems to only use them in populated downtoawn areas with a lot of other retail lights already on.
oh! the cooper light of this thread comes in an LED verson, which is one of the first HPS bodies i've seen come in LED. Maybe brampton will sneak some in, and we'll only find out by going on scavenger hunts to see if any will be LED down the road haha.