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Lanterns/Fixtures => News about Lanterns/Fixtures => Topic started by: yuandrew on September 06, 2011, 04:56:55 AM
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I still have orange High pressure Sodium streetlights where I live but a few adjacent cities (Brea, Pomona, and Corona) have been going to induction lamps. Brea selected the shoe shaped "New Jersey" style fixtures by US lighting tech of Irvine, CA with the Sylvania Icetron system while Pomona is using GE M250A2 and M400A semi cutoff cobraheads that have been retrofitted with EcoWatt induction system by Tanko Lighting in San Fransisco. Recently, the city of Corona to the south of me has also jumped on the induction bandwagon and are using the "Cobra" series fixtures by US lighting tech (looks like a cross between a full cutoff AEL 113 and a GE M250A2 with a big, heatsinked door) in a light green finish with Sylvania Icetron lamps.
For LED, the closest I know of are BetaLED LEDWays in a neighborhood south of the 10 freeway between Benson and Mountain Ave in the City of Ontario.
Anaheim public utilities is still mostly HPS but are testing out Induction and recently LEDs. There are also some induction fixtures by American Induction Technologies in an industrial area a block from my work. Near a co-worker's home on Park Vista Street are some AEL 113s with 40 watt induction "circline" lamps in them (they are not very bright though). Two GE Evolve LED cobra heads have also popped less than a month ago three blocks away as well.
So who's cities or adjacent areas are installing or using such alternatives ? They can be Induction, LED, or CMH.
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I am currently in the South Bay region of the Los Angeles area. Long Beach is still mostly HPS but they have some LEDs being tested on Bellflower Blvd next to CSULB. Lakewood has a few test LEDs. Compton recently changed all of its street lights to pulse start metal halide, even SCE did the switch on their lights. I saw a few inductions being tested in Culver City. Beverly Hills went to pulse start metal halide in many areas of the city. Carlsbad, down in San Diego County, went to induction all over.
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Montreal, Canada. Found a 1 km section in a suburb with LEDs on tall poles. Feels weird, quite dim, mainly because the heads are above 30 feet high! Here are some pics:
http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m153/g_liv/LED-at-night-Alexis-NihonIMG_4843.jpg
http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m153/g_liv/LED-at-night-Alexis-NihonIMG_4851.jpg
There are a few other LED test lights on some other parts but that's all. Mostly HPS. Most commercial districts have many M-H installations and in some parks (acorns).
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Rhode Island is all HID (few incandescents for the island towns of Jamestown and Newport, etc). I heard talk of Providence and Cranston, RI going LED though. i'm not happy about that at all. Already over the past two years LEd have made tremendous improvements, but still have lots of improvements to be made to be the lighting of the future.
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Most of the Toronto area is still HPS or MH in the downtown but parts of Vaughan now use these Lumec Roadstar (http://www.galleryoflights.org/mb/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-4411) LED lights, personally the HPS worked better at night since the LED replacements are a bit spotty and the light beam looks too "scattered".
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if LED streetlights just had a prismatic refractor on it, they wouldn't be spotty. they wouldn't look as bad either. Infact, they'd look roughly like LPS or fluorescent lights.
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Here we are purely drop refractor HPS. We do have some FCO HPS test zones but that's it so far, I think (and hope) we will be going CMH eventually.
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We currently are drop lens HPS, but I heard some talk of LED. :8) We still have mercury vapors in service and even some incandescents being serviced. (incandescents are only found in jamestown, RI) there's atleast 15 100w MV M-250A2s in service in my area.
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Well my area is still mostly drop lens HPS, but they've switched to occasionally installing FCO lumes recently...there's also been talk of a certain diode invading our electric grid too.