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The label is fully intact and more than just printed letters, and I know where the company was based so it shouldn't be that hard. Besides, information for many things Canadian is very difficult to find on Google so I'll just have to check other sources. Last edited by Jon A.; 07-23-2018 at 03:37 PM. |
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Just commiserating with you on how some info gets buried or doesn't exist on the otherwise "knows-all, tells-all" internet, and truly wishing you luck on finding it.
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I remember seeing fluorescent lighting at gas stations when I was growing up, but not so much as street lighting. At least one former gas station (now a body shop) still turns on their fluorescent lights at night. One current gas station lit theirs for a year or so, but didn't bother to turn it off during the day! It's been off ever since; not sure if the tubes/ballast failed, or if they just don't bother anymore.
Up until the early-mid '90s, my town used mercury vapor street lighting. We lived on a small private road, and still had an incandescent streetlight. Around the time the town converted their streetlights to sodium vapor, they took down our streetlight, and didn't replace it for a few years, upon which they replaced it with a sodium vapor one which is still there. A few years ago, I found an American Electric street light head in a trash pile across the street from my house. It's equipped with a 100W GE mercury vapor bulb, and a ballast coil of some sort. I'm not sure how to wire it up; I tried connecting a 120V cheater cord to its terminals, but no dice. Guessing it needs 240 or 277V, but I have no real idea how I'd accommodate it in that regard. Here are some pictures of it:
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Edited: I forgot I also did some digging and found photos of my town in the late 60's when the main drags were still fluorescent. http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...Bucket/_58.jpg http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...1939_small.jpg http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...et/293_001.jpg http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...et/954_001.jpg The same street, but a few years later. Note the sodium heads. http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...et/804_001.jpg Last edited by MIPS; 07-24-2018 at 09:40 PM. |
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It looked a lot like the pic I posted below.
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Saw this one in Santa Monica, CA a week ago. There’s quite a few of these old fixtures out there still, often hidden in plain view.
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The one from Santa Monica looks more like '80'-'90's.
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I also saw a similar streetlamp on a bridge in Steubenville, Ohio although it looks more updated.
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This thread is quite old now but I'm bumping it purely to enlighten Telecolor.
Here is a 1963 catalog from General Electric listing the specifications on their then modern street lighting, including fluorescent. https://www.scribd.com/document/3316...g-Catalog-1963 Scribd link, sorry. You should be able to see the entire thing at least once before it nags you to register. Note that the most powerful lamp they list is the Form 606. It's an 8 foot long 100lb+ monster that takes SIX 230w Very High Output tubes and ran so hot it came standard with active cooling. Power consumption is somewhere around 1200W and provides roughly 65000 lumens of light output. http://www.galleryoflights.org/mb/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-10671 General Electric was a very normal supplier in North America, so a lot of the products in that catalog will be recognized by a few people here Last edited by MIPS; 02-28-2020 at 07:49 PM. |
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Well, that explains how those fluorescents on State Street could work in Chicago winters.
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lol! Damn 1200w fluorescent light, that's insane! Look at those tubes though, very interesting.
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The dimples put more phosphor closer to the UV arc source, but make it more difficult to prevent degradation of the phosphor with time. Similar problems were experienced in the design of plasma flat TV panels.
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They stopped making those tubes recently. I know a local TV collector that has a hoard of those tubes and that was the explanation I was given.
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