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Lanterns/Fixtures => Vintage => Topic started by: mercuryvaporrocks on July 28, 2010, 09:05:44 PM

Title: Streetlight failures
Post by: mercuryvaporrocks on July 28, 2010, 09:05:44 PM: I've been noticing several streetlights in my area failing I think because of this big heat wave we've been having all summer, is anyone else seeing what I'm seeing? :o
Title: Re: Streetlight failures
Post by: gailgrove on August 01, 2010, 08:25:31 AM: I noticed it during the winter here, although I think a few traffic light controllers have over heated (I am seeing more traffic light failures)
Title: Re: Streetlight failures
Post by: Mike on October 18, 2010, 05:07:59 PM: I have noticed LOTS of dayburners and spent bulbs as well as fried ballasts. Only some. All of them have been Coopers or M-250R2's. :-\
Title: Re: Streetlight failures
Post by: Jace the Gull on October 18, 2010, 10:31:14 PM: Last winter there was some mysterious streetlight replacement....when the last time I saw them was working fine.....the two important streetlights that got replaced for unknown reasons are a GE M-250R (silver remote PC) and a OV-14B (remote PC).....they worked FINE the last time I saw it right before the BIG BIG BIG blizzard....after that said blizzard...those two were gone, same for a few others...a dayburner GE M-400A1 and a glassless GE M-400A1
Title: Re: Streetlight failures
Post by: Mike on October 19, 2010, 04:07:53 PM: Hmm. Seems to be a trend here.......................
Title: Re: Streetlight failures
Post by: joe_347V on October 19, 2010, 10:51:59 PM: I've seen a few LED traffic light modules failed so that only half the module lights here during the summer.

Also, quite a few streetlights here mainly, old Powerlite B2255s and R37s were replaced with OVFs and OVXs :-\ some because they decided to replace the cracked concrete poles and some because of light failures.
Title: Re: Streetlight failures
Post by: dor123 on October 20, 2010, 08:07:45 AM: Quote from: GullWhiz on October 18, 2010, 10:31:14 PM
Last winter there was some mysterious streetlight replacement....when the last time I saw them was working fine.....the two important streetlights that got replaced for unknown reasons are a GE M-250R (silver remote PC) and a OV-14B (remote PC).....they worked FINE the last time I saw it right before the BIG BIG BIG blizzard....after that said blizzard...those two were gone, same for a few others...a dayburner GE M-400A1 and a glassless GE M-400A1

I think that this is what is called a streetlighting group replacement. In Israel this is common to replace an entrie group of lanterns in a roads (Including good working old lanterns) with new lanterns (Especially in project of streetlighting improving [For example the Indal 3E International "Aliance" lanterns that were installed by Gaash lighitng in the downtown of Haifa]), to get the same shape of lanterns all over the road.
Blending of various types, shape and light colors of lanterns in roads is much less aesthetic.
Title: Re: Streetlight failures
Post by: mercuryvaporrocks on October 20, 2010, 07:31:36 PM: Streetlight failures are more common during a change in the seasons when the weather is really hot or really cold all the sudden.