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Cooper Lighting changes glassware on their small Streetworks Luminaires

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Mike:
Yeah they must have switched the glass design in fall of 2012. NGrid started installing Coopers around here again around that time and the first one I saw was here and I was puzzled as to why the glass looked like that of the 1960s AE and Westinghouse lights. Kinda like a full-circle with Westinghouse/Cooper since when the OV-15 first came out I think it used the same glass.

These new Cooper OVZs and OVXs have the smoothest lamp distribution I have ever seen with 250W and 400W HPS. No dark or bright spots, everything is evenly lit and smooth. Not super glarey either. Of course I wish they'd use medium sized cobraheads for 250W and 400W lamps, but the distribution is smooth enough where I guess I don't mind it. NGrid still uses GE M-250R2s for 50-100W HPS lights here.

slz:
The push since the early 90's have been smaller profile fixtures. The medium fixtures haven't been prominent here for a long time.

Mike:
Yeah NGrid uses small fixtures for 250W HPS but with GE, they used M-400s for 400W. Coopers are OVXs for 400W though. Cooper no longer offers a medium-sized drop lens fixture so they'd have to use the OVX unless they wanted FCO, in which case they'd use the OVF. The only 400W lights I've seen used here are in metropolitan areas like Providence so FCO lights aren't used. NGrid does use FCO lights in SE MA though. RI they still use drop lenses.

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