Gallery of Lights
The Site => General discussion => Topic started by: chapman84 on June 18, 2017, 09:50:14 PM
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I'm not sure what date this was released, but I do know these lights were discontinued in 2014.
http://nr1.s3.amazonaws.com/kb/2AD62C9/2AD62DF/2E7EFB6/1/OVD%20OVL%20OVG%20discontinue.pdf
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Yep this one is a solid fact alright. Unlike that Wiki article. I'd like to know which brilliant LG member wrote that. The M-250R2 is still alive and well for now. If anything they'd probably discontinue the Powr/Door models and keep the simpler, cheaper, and more popular single door units. The article you linked shows a March 2014 date. It's too bad, since I quite liked the OVD. The OVL was nice since it was the last Westinghouse design but I heard the quality of those things was terrible. The 327 is all that's left for 1000W cobraheads and I've been told they're not that great either.
thanks for posting the actual document. I saved it to my computer. I like to archive stuff like this.
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Yeah the Cooper Lighting OVLs looked good, but they had premature ballast failures. There was one in New Kensington, PA that only lasted for 4 years.
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Yeash. The only 1000W fixtures used here were 1000W MV flood lights (GE P-1000s mostly, with some American Electric floods and maybe Westinghouse, though I usually only see them in 400W MV) and 1000W MV street lights (I've only seen M-1000s but I think the OV-50 might have been used). By the time the M-1000 was discontinued around 1986, they weren't installing 1000W MV street lights anymore and never installed any other lights over 400W.
GE has had capacitor issues on and off since the 70s. In the 70s and 80s their 400W MV lights had bad capacitors that frequently went bad (lamp would dim out as the cap lost farads) and since the early 2000s some 250W and 400W HPS GEs have had bad capacitors. The lamps run dim and are LPS in appearance. NGrid switched to Cooper for 250W and 400W street lights and flood lights but still uses GE for anything under 250W so I'm thinking they might have gotten tired of the bad capacitors (since under 250W lights don't use capacitors, thus nothing wrong with those fixtures).
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Most of the 1kW MV fixtures were Powerlite B2213s in older parking lots with a few B2228s. They're a few M-1000s, OV-50s and AEL 27s but they're fairly rare compared to the Powerlites. As far as I know the only large fixtures used on public road here was the B2213 and those were 700w.
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Allegheny Power (now known as West Penn Power) was the last power company in Pennsylvania that I know of that still installed 1000 watt mercury vapor street lights until 2008 and the last time they installed a 1000 watt metal halide street light was back in 2013.
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And sadly 1000 watt metal halide street lights are no longer available. American Electric recently discontinued their 1000 watt metal halide option for the 327 Series leaving 1000 watt high pressure sodium as the only option now.