1956-1959 General Electric Form 400 street light (175w MV)
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- Опубліковано 21 чер 2022
- Because the original ballast can failed, I used a Greenlee Lighting 175w MV landscape lighting ballast box. This fixture once lit the main street of Wylie, TX from 1956-59 to 1987. This was my second street light fixture. It is also my only Clamshell as of current.
It came also in vertical version of the 1950s General Electric Form 400, and so does 1950s Westinghouse Type OV-20 in two models, and so does the 1950s Line Materials Ovalites as used for Seattle Washington street lights, but now they replaced by LED street light throughout Seattle Washington.
There are five different bean spreads types for roadway and parking lot lighting. The most common bean spreads for roadway lighting are types II and III. I would assume they used these standards back in the 1950’s and 60’s, which is why you are getting strange light patterns. Nice fixture and history of it too!
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Nice fixture: sounds like the "Cicada band," was there for extra effect...
Beautiful i love those old street lights...😊👍but i hate the crappy todays leds.💩💩😔🤦♂️
Josh your lighting is so low it’s hard to see any of the details of the fixture. Secondly and you probably know this but there’s a version with a stainless latch hinge which I think is an earlier version and the later version has a pressed aluminum hinge latch on the upper housing.
I talked to Joe Ann Maurath and she said these fixtures were sold up until the late 1960s and they were prolific.
A daytime overview will be coming shortly, I have been very busy. This is not even my setup anymore.
Team ban led lights (except in screens) not forcing
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