Hi, When I get a chance, I will scan them and send them to you. I am in the middle of having a house built and am 600 miles away from where those instructions...
In principle, any mercury lamp will strike up and work when operated in an HPS circuit for a lamp of approximately the same wattage. However it will be...
Hello again Rich, Well, I did it! Got up at 3:30 this morning and managed to win the globe!!! Thanks again for your help. Best regards, Gordon P.S. Does...
We still have about 800 750 watt incandescent fixtures on our system. We're having a hard time finding long-life replacement lamps. We've found lamps from a...
Hi Frank, I maintain over 25 750w incandescent lights at the auditorium where I work! We used to use 1000 watt PS-52 lamps but downgraded to 750w because of...
... I work! We used to use 1000 watt PS-52 lamps but downgraded to 750w because of energy and heat issues. The 750w lamps are still bright enough though. ... ...
Someone was asking me about this bracket: http://www.insulators.com/pictures/?id=95718529 I have this bracket now - am now in the process of getting it into...
I went to three local scrap yards today that electricians take old parking lot light fixtures to, however the people at the yards say that they don't take...
I would like to find the following light fixtures to add to my collection. 1) PowerGlo Light Fixture (small version) 2) Mushroom Looking Light Fixture (small...
There are companies that rebuild old fixtures, putting in new ballasts and repainting, then they sell them cheap to municipalities. I'm sure a search on the...
Here ya go... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=26219&item=3839984658& rd=1 -Kevin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
The yard I go to ends up with everything. The lights are tossed into large cardboard boxes and shipped to the scrapyard. They ship them to China as is. These ...
... Shoulda tried to grab one, those are becoming rare beasts, I'd love to have one in my collection though anything larger than a 250 would be difficult to...
... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=26219&item=3839984658& ... Hey that thing's in Marysville, not more than 30 minutes from me. ALmost...
Does anybody know why HPS lamps do not come in PAR or R shaped bulbs? Seems odd, as Mercury and MH lamps do. Larry [Non-text portions of this message have...
I was wondering if these light fixtures could have been made by WideLites? They were not made by GE or Holophane. They have 4 panels to the light fixture that...
Philips makes a 70w one piece PAR-38 (also known as the BR-38) HPS reflector lamp. Westinghouse, before the Philips takeover, used to make 70w HPS lamps in two...
I've had an interest in H.I.D. lighting technology & history since I was a kid, especially mercury vapor lamps & ballasts. We had 175w mercury security lights...
Hi Brian I lived in Lewiston for a few years, and I'm quite certain that I met you there. Lots of HPS and Metal halide in service there. If you look around...
Thanks, BTW Is there any particular type of you prefer to collect? (Incandescent, Mercury vapor). Ballasts? I'm especially interested in the history of mercury...
Wide-Lite still exists (http://www.wide-lite.com/); perhaps if you contacted them, someone would know about that fixture. I'd be curious too, to find out the...
One of my first memories when I moved to Washington State in 1976, at the age of 3, was seeing a mercury vapor security light in a neighbor's yard. It stood...
Welcome! Anyway, the color of /W phosphored mercury lamps appears to be close to clear mercury vapor lamps, but at a alightly lower color temperature. In other...
My main complaint about mercury lamps for street lighting is the drastic reduction in light output towards the end of life. If a municipality is not diligent...
It is because newer mercury lamps have been cheapened up a lot in recent years which just suddenly start to go dim then fail. Older mercury lamps are built so...
Hi Dave and Larry, Dave, I utmost agree! I have seen many older (1960s) mercury lamps in service with over 100,000 hours on them with a somewhat (but not...
WideLites said that they were not made by them either, so they weren't made by WideLite, Holophane, or GE. Who else made light fixtures back in the 1970's that...
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