yeah i thought so too but i guess it requires different parts to make that HV pulse. yeah i was like wow exact paint color huh? :-)
Yeah i was thinking washing and repainting them. I assume all the lights will need is a simple igniter change. I wouldn't be including any lamps or PCs though. I'll get one lamp of each wattage too keep on hand (i have a 50, 70, and 250W HPS lamp so all i need is 100W and 150W HPS) so i can test the fixtures. I would ask only for small lights since hunting down boxes for small lites is hard enough, nevermind medium sized lights. I'll probably ask for two to start with (that's like 60 bucks i'm putting into the two lights if you figure 10 bucks for paint for each light, 10 bucks to pay for the scrap value to my friends, and 20 bucks for a pair of GE igniters. So 30 bucks a light out of my pocket and sell them for about 70 a piece and there's 40 bucks in profit per light. not bad... not bad at all... If i restore two and only sell one, i still make 10 bucks in profit. if both sell rather quickly i'll see if i can get four more, since i'd have exta money to get more lights. the only thing though is i don't want to be stuck with them after i put monet into them or i'm not getting anything out of dealing with them.
Yeah i don't know why they want to get rid of the highmasts. doesn't make sense to me. Yeah the poles are sorta rusted out but the lowering devices still all work as they put all new lamps in last year (and half are either out or cycling now
) Even if they were to use HPS they'd still be using davit poles isntead of highmasts. Highmasts are great for interchanges since the poles are generally away from the road and you don't need a bucket truck so less liability (though the ones up your way are right in the middle of the road and you do need a bucket truck lol) Yeah there used to be three highmast installations. Two were 1000W MH/MV with the older round ballast cases and the 400W HPS set up which has the newer short square ballast case. all three setups used the drop lens highmasts that look almost like NEMA heads. i don't really like the highbay style highmasts. they're BORING. the drop lens ones are pretty cool to look at IMO. One of the MH highmast set ups was removed in the mid 2000s with over a few hundred (i'm not kidding!) HPS GE M-400 FCOs on davit poles. Probably 1/5th of the poles have been roadkill too. I don't see how switching to cobraheads saved any money.
Yeah it seems a lot of people replace lamps in pairs so the good lamp gets tossed too. And if someone gets a T8 fixture they'll just throw out their stock of T12s.