yep about as tall as my GE M-100 display since you mentioned it was about 7.5 feet tall....my M-100 from the very top is 7 feet and 3 inches!

Yes it's rare to see fixtures like these mounted so low!

just a little guy

Why is it mounted so low. It makes vandals very happy with it.

In my country where lights are this low usually CFL or a 50w MV(rare) will suffice.

I have seen one that i really low. In a local school they had HPS set in the wall about 1.5 ft high. They are to illuminate the pathway.

@FGS: Do they have a lens? The new designer series do not have a lens because the lightsource is tucked away on top and hidden from sight.

yes they have a lens or otherwise i would have a 70w HSP

Then I guess they are pretty old. I remember working around them during my short work experience, the lens were difficult to screw back because the threads were gone and we had to use silcone glue gun to 'seal' it back after a lamp change.

naw, the school is pretty new.

I have seen the lenses glued by silocone at the local community college. they have CFLs.

why mount a light this low??....at this height it does not light a very large area,plus its suceptible to vandelism!

I am not saying to do this but a screwdriver might be all it takes to have a lamp and gear for it. But that would be vandalism.

Want a new 150W HPS lamp for your collection?

@tmcdllr: I know the feeling. At the BART station, some of the MV canopy lights with clear 100 watt A shaped lamps are close enough to the ground that I can touch them without reaching up and although they are running, I always think about removing and pocketing the lamps from the fixtures, but the odds of getting caught are way too risky so I wouldn't do it. Plus, since the lamps are on 24/7 they are pretty hot. That's two reasons not to do it.

^OMG I totally know the feeling! It's SOOOOOO tempting but just not worth the risk. When I was younger I would have done it in a heartbeat, in fact I did something similar. I am in no way saying that this is ok but when I was younger and more stupid, there was a, let's just call it "a light" that I really wanted. It was at this place and it lit up this place at night, there were several of them mounted on the ground that uplit this place. Well, I wanted one so badly that I went out one night, cut the wire (while it was on...STUPID!) and in a shower of sparks unmounted it, and away I went. Not long after, these "lights" were replaced with something better, something I wanted more! So..... let's just say somehow I ended up with two different "lights." And also somehow I ended up with a bunch of fixtures that seemed to come from nowhere, most gone now. That was MANY years ago. If I want a fixture today, even if I want it really badly, I would never-ever go about doing that sort of thing ever again, there is just no way. It's not worth the risk and, this will seem corny, but doing stuff like that I feel would give legitimate collectors, such as the wonderful people on this site, a bad rap. We are not thieves, we are collectors and today I would not want to do anything that would attach negativity to that. I feel now if you have to steal something, eventhough I will be the first to admit it is very tempting, then you are not a collector but a common thief, and besides that it's against the law and getting caught is not worth it and I know how I would feel if something was taken from me, and I no longer wish to do that to someone. If I want a fixture now, there are only two possible ways I see of getting it:

1. BUY IT
2. ASK FOR IT

If I can't get it after that, then it wasn't meant to be and I move on. Wow, sorry for the ramble but I just felt like sharing that story and my opinion. Sure it's fun to joke about it, you know fixtures mounted so low that you could just go up and take it, but that's where it stops. If you have to resort to taking things like that then that is NOT COOL! Maybe I have become older or smarter, or because I was just lucky when I did this stuff, but I am done with that nonsense....never again!

I agree with 100% of that. I've never taken a fixture or bulb without asking first, but the thought has crossed my mind a lot. I guess we all have those kinds of thoughts. What is even more frustrating than that is that abandoned buildings seem to be gold mines for cool stuff they don't make anymore.

I think "the want" of a fixture is part of makes this hobby so cool, it is how you go about it that is the difference. I am not proud of what I did but I won't do it again. Besides I like to buy new as much as possible...I like new fixtures and lamps more but that's just me.

Wow! That pole is even shorter than the one I have down in my basement.

I think short poles with big fixtures look funny.