Thats a great picture! Do these lights use HPS or incandescent bulbs?? I often wonder if westinghouse would ever bring back these great old fixtures....
These OV-20s would have originally been 400W mercury, but this one (and all the others left in Burbank, CA) have been retrofitted to HPS now. Although it would...
Until 1992, Nassau County, New York had thousands of Westinghouse acorn streetlights retrofitted with 400 watt remote mercury ballasts. These remote ballasts...
... Loop Parkways?? I love the new gumball designs. i wish they would place these on the wooden poles instead of the bucket lights. what do you think about...
What does the new gumball in NYC looks like????? can you show a picture of the new gumballs...im interested I have seen those wooden lights with the bucket...
I wish I had some pictures of them but I dont have any to post yet. Not being a computer "tech" I wouldnt even know how to send them in to this website....
... NYC ... GE type that used the shiny metal fixtures above the glass refractor.Interestingly enough, The Verrazanno Narrows bridge still uses many of the...
Yeah that bridge sure has a lot of cuplights but with few bucketlights.....I go through that bridge every time I go to NYC.....a nice view to look at!!! but...
If anyone is interested, the following website has a picture of the Jones Beach toll plaza with the newly restored woodie lights from the Robert Moses era....
I have seen a bunch of cobrahead fixtures with refractors, drop refractors, sag glass (BGE my electric company uses them currently instead of full cutoff...
I recall that open type cobra head fixtures fixtures were installed in NYC in the mid-1960s primarily on side streets and usually had lower wattage mercury...
My Wheeler open type merc as Jace pointed out is here: http://www.lighting-gallery.net/displayimage.php?pos=-5636 It was orginally from New England, it was...
actually the ones that contain LED are an addition....it is a shape of a rod....(or tall cylinder) and a orange and white photocell on the top....and yes...you...
You may not be aware but the old fire lights were actually the original incandescant streetlights that contained radical wave fixtures in the 1920's. I hope...
Hello all, I recently picked up a GE "PBS" style street lamp for my place in Delaware county, NY. This will replace the HPS fixture :( that is currently there....
They are not going to...trust me.....so don't worry....I got another pic of the fire alarm light that is still working and hasn't been upgraded with a new...
I forgot to add a question......according to one of my friends, he says my GE M-100 open bottom is a 1963.......but he doesn't know what the other letter...
It may help to contact GE Lighting Systems directly, as they still use that design. Their catalog I believe has replacement part #s for what you need. ... ...
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I wired a 250w MV ballast in my other Power Door this weekend. I used the supplied capacitor as shown in the instructions. Do I need it? Can I wire it up...
Depends on the type of ballast. If it's a 250 watt constant wattage autotransformer, yes you need it and it must be between the secondary of the ballast and...
Got it, thank you. Brian ... From: Lee Lowry <leel@...> Depends on the type of ballast. If it's a 250 watt constant wattage autotransformer, yes you...
In a CWA ballast, the cap is not only for power factor correction but also serves as part of the reactance in the ballast secondary circuit. If removed, it is...
Well not to worry. I'm using it with the cap in place. Lamp functions as it should. ... From: Lee Lowry <leel@...> In a CWA ballast, the cap is not only...
Yup--same thing on my old preheat tulamp fluorescent ballasts. They are a lead-lag circuit, with the "lead" lamp actually on a CWA circuit, the lag lamp on a...
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