General Electric C400 "CrimeFighter" street light (MV converted)

Not my fixture, but fun to make a video about. The owner is a good friend of mine. This has been converted to 400w MV/MH, but can be HPS by using a retrofit lamp. I also have a video of that, for those interested.

[@scanman975]

Being from Chicago, I remember those fixtures quite well. The majority of conversion to HPS lighting occurred during the late '70s/early '80s.

[@davidtosh7200]

This type of fixture is also available as GE, M-4002, Crimefighter in the late 1980s through early 2000s, and they are abundant in Chicago Illinois, then any other major cities in the USA. There are couple of changes between GE M-400A1, Crimefighter, and GE M-400A2, Crimefighter is the location of the photocell was moved from the rear to the center of the fixture, and the latch is different at the front.

[@Alcarods]

Born and raised in Chicago, everytime I saw these, I knew I was home! Personally, I thought these were great looking lights. These were mainly used on main artery streets and looked better than the smaller variant for the side streets.
I'm on the hunt for one!

[@Sgyozo]

Crime was not gone, but at least it became visible. :D

[@Mirroxaphene]

Studies typically suggest a proper streetlighting program reduces crime around 20%. The whole idea of these fixtures was to blast light in every possible direction.
I’m planning on getting more of these but once again shipping is an absolute pain in the ass.

[@thelightingcollector2419]

Clearly it did not work for ShitCockBlow, as the crime continued to get worse into the 80s and 90s.

[@OddoFelacio]

places with bad infrastructure tend to be poor, poorer places tend to have more crime. sounds like both have common cause rather then a brighter light banishing criminals.

[@davidhollenshead4892]

@@thelightingcollector2419 Chicago is not the crime ridden hell that you claimed...
Perhaps you should stick to lighting as you apparently don't know what you are talking about when describing our cities...

[@Mirroxaphene]

@@davidhollenshead4892 anytime I’ve worked in Chicago it did strike me as an infested dump hole.

[@johnjingleheimersmith9259]

Not at all funded and supervised by a company like StreetLighting Standard&Co right?

[@Mirroxaphene]

310W HPS originally.

[@bobsep84]

I'm searching very hard for one of these!!! I would most likely convert it to a smaller 200 Watt HPS ballast/lamp

[@thelightingcollector2419]

Not too hard to find. Nice to see you on here, btw!

[@humanhuman1773]

Pretty cool.

[@ecstazyrm]

Cool channel man! Good work

[@jreding132]

Nice, just have to keep the wire from being stolen like in Saint Paul. MN...

[@tornadosirenroubik4124]

Wow nice!!!

[@user-ok5lz9zx1g]

The "C" is there

[@homeguestunton]

I prefer LEDs

[@thelightingcollector2419]

good for you, I guess? You really won't enjoy my channel then, I don't collect a lot of LEDs