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Testing the McGraw-Edison 125w mercury street light opened
One of the heads lit up properly with the included EYE 125w lamps as soon as I wired it. Lovely!
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Testing the McGraw-Edison 125w mercury street light opened

One of the heads lit up properly with the included EYE 125w lamps as soon as I wired it. Lovely!

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Filename:IMG_7678.jpg
Album name:lights*plus / Mercury MV street lamps
Keywords:American_Streetlights
Company and Date Manufactured:McGraw-Edison of Canada Limited, Power Systems Division. 1960's
Model Number:LM50IBCICW or LM501BC1CW
Wattage:125w H42
Filesize:384 KiB
Date added:Dec 31, 2014
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streetlight98   [Jan 01, 2015 at 01:01 AM]
Very unique construction!
vaporeyes   [Jan 02, 2015 at 04:07 AM]
Interesting light. Not common to see 125w mercury used in North America, except in Eastern Canada and in those odd Regent yard lights in the States. I can't decide if that fixture looks like a tiny gumball stuck in an oversized head, or a tiny version of a high mast light. Those EYE lamps are good quality.
joe_347V   [Jan 04, 2015 at 08:46 AM]
Nice find!, you would think that these were remote ballasted. 125w mercury saw some use in Canada, older mercury outdoor lights were sometimes 125w. The MTO also used to use 125w mercs to light highway signs,
streetlight98   [Jan 04, 2015 at 01:14 PM]
Did the 125W mercs dim out as badly as the 100W and below mercs or were they more like the 175W mercs?
joe_347V   [Jan 05, 2015 at 03:27 AM]
The newer 125w mercs have a thin arctube like the 100w lamps so I guess those dimmed out pretty quickly but the older ones hava similar arctube as a 175w lamp, those would have probably lasted longer.

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