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One section of highway here had its cobrahead lights changed for LED. The restare still the orange sodium fixtures. Prefer the orange.
There are still some blue/green mercury cobras here and there on streets and parking lot. Most parking lots are bright white metal halide.
Not many streetlights in my neighborhood other than power company rented yardlights. Most of these were the sodium bucket shaded fixtures. But as the bulbs burn out they replace them with little LED fixtures. Again I prefered the sodium. Out of four lights on my street that are used only one is sodium. There are still a lot of sodium buckets in my neighborhood and even some mercury vapor.
My old neighbor had two sodium buckets which i thought was too bright IMO. They stopped paying though so the Poco shut them off. The one closest to my house had the bulb removed for some reason but later the Poco removed it completely when they did some work on the pole. The other fixture is still on its dedicated pole toward the middle of the yard and still has the bulb. But the new owners haven't had the Poco use it.
One house on my street has two huge sodium floodlights, but they are rarely on. Another has what looks like quartz floods over the tennis court but never seen them used or the tennis courts.
I like the old radial wave streetlights with just a bulb underneath the shade. One building here has new ones mountedon it and the historic district got some with glass shades that look nice.
Most downtown areas have the fluted columns with plastic acorn globes and sodium bulbs. These are to replicate the old acorns that show in old photos, but 1950s-80s photos show mercury vapor Westinghouse clamshell lights. The promenade has the 5 globe fixtures that replicate the original ornate 5 globes from the teens.
There are still some blue/green mercury cobras here and there on streets and parking lot. Most parking lots are bright white metal halide.
Not many streetlights in my neighborhood other than power company rented yardlights. Most of these were the sodium bucket shaded fixtures. But as the bulbs burn out they replace them with little LED fixtures. Again I prefered the sodium. Out of four lights on my street that are used only one is sodium. There are still a lot of sodium buckets in my neighborhood and even some mercury vapor.
My old neighbor had two sodium buckets which i thought was too bright IMO. They stopped paying though so the Poco shut them off. The one closest to my house had the bulb removed for some reason but later the Poco removed it completely when they did some work on the pole. The other fixture is still on its dedicated pole toward the middle of the yard and still has the bulb. But the new owners haven't had the Poco use it.
One house on my street has two huge sodium floodlights, but they are rarely on. Another has what looks like quartz floods over the tennis court but never seen them used or the tennis courts.
I like the old radial wave streetlights with just a bulb underneath the shade. One building here has new ones mountedon it and the historic district got some with glass shades that look nice.
Most downtown areas have the fluted columns with plastic acorn globes and sodium bulbs. These are to replicate the old acorns that show in old photos, but 1950s-80s photos show mercury vapor Westinghouse clamshell lights. The promenade has the 5 globe fixtures that replicate the original ornate 5 globes from the teens.
