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Powerlite Guide

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joe_347V:
Welcome to the Powerlite Guide, this is a thread with some info on Powerlite and a pictorial guide of the known Powerlite models. This thread is quite picture heavy and long so I've included a couple of links below to quickly skip through. Feel free to reply below if you have any comments or something to add, and enjoy!


Quick links:

Powerlite Info

Pictorial Guide to Powerlite Lumes (Click here for the guide with the pictures of the different fixtures).




[Updated on Mar 21 '11 scroll to the second post ]
(was Old Drawings and Diagrams of Powerlite Lights)

Here's some interesting diagrams of some Powerlite light fixtures and other streetlighting related items that I found by searching the Canadian patents website.

List of all Powerlite Listings

Here's some of diagrams or some fixtures that I found on there

Some interesting modular lighting system that mounted on a track:
More Info and Pics Here


Powerlite B2255:
Interesting that the ballast was door mounted and had plug that disconnected the supply when the door was opened.
More Info and Pics Here


Powerlite Signlite Sign Flood:
More Info and Pics Here

joe_347V:
Well, I found some more info on older Powerlite designs and have attempted to match them up to some pics to form a field guide to Powerlite luminaires, I'll put the unconfirmed/speculative models under a separate heading to avoid confusion.  

Please feel free to reply if you have any corrections or new info to add.

Also here's a Wikipedia page on Powerlite Devices that was created by Niall too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powerlite_Devices

First up are the links to the web pages that contains the new information I found on Powerlite luminaires:

Here's a list of some CSA certifications showing the model # and name of some Powerlite luminaires:
http://directories.csa-international.org/xml_transform.asp?xml=certxml\214424-3425-05.xml&xsl=xsl/certrec.xsl

Here's a list of some trademarks used by Powerlite Devices:
http://trade.mar.cx/powerlite_devices_limited

Here's a link to a pic of a old light that was apparently a Powerlite design, seems that Powerlite Devices was founded during 1918 or sometime before.

http://www.sciencetech.technomuses.ca/english/collection/elect8.cfm

UPDATE: Here are some more pages on Powerlite, it seems that Powerlite was sold off by Osram Sylvania to a Montreal based company called the Kaufel Group in July 1993 which was in turn bought by Thomas & Betts Corp in September 1998.  

Page about T & B acquiring Powerlite's parent company Kaufel Group

Archived copy of Powerlite's product page

Same as above but in French

Short blurb on Powerlite's history

Same as above but in French

Archived copy of Powerlite's home page

Same as above but in French it would have been nice to see the pics though.

I split the actual guide to a new post to make the it easier to read Click here of scroll down to read it.

gailgrove:
That looks great, I'll add some more of this to the Wikipedia page as well, and I'm fine with you using my pictures ;)

joe_347V:
Thanks Niall, :D  I'll add more here as I find more info on Powerlite. Also you along with the rest of GoL can also add more info as a reply on this thread. I also fixed up some part of the guide too.

joe_347V:
Updated the guide after the recent findings from Dave.

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