Out here in SoCal the main failure point for GE luminaires in HPS was the ignitors on units manufactured in the 1990s, particularly the plug-in type. Cap failure was very rare for most generations.

I wholeheartedly agree with AE peaking under ITT. Every parent company beyond that started cost cutting the build quality. 113s for example looked good brand new, but seemingly aged poorly.

Can’t say much about Cooper since they were rarely used.

@Lightingeye60 - The problem isn't GE or Cooper, but who they buy there capacitors from.
GE made their own for years, until they sold that division, and it was renamed Genteq. Personally, I've only seen a handful of capacitor failures in GE luminaires over the last 40 plus years.
Cooper originally used GE capacitors, then switched to Aerovox some time in the 90's...I've only seen one Cooper with a failed capacitor, and that was an OVS installed around 1987, and it's still in service today.

I'd imagine most of the tooling to make HID luminaires have either been modified for a LED only variant or scrapped in most cases. I suppose some luminaire designs such as the Holophane Bantam LED are similar enough to their HID predecessors that there's a lot of common housing parts still in production for the LED variant.

Yeah, the main issue with GE’s is their capacitors are questionable in quality, even for older fixtures. I see so many GE HPS fixtures that are glowing a dim, orange color. Even the GE capacitors didn't seem too good as I see several older GE’s with a dim orange hue as well. Seems like that’s the most common failure point with GE HPS fixtures. Cooper capacitors aren’t the best either (I’ve seen several Cooper fixtures also get dim, even newer ones). AEL seems to use the best capacitors.

The issues with AEL’s is their igniters.

You can call me Daniel, as well as by my username.

I don't want my name to be associated with this screen name.

I don't mind if people on this site know this name, but since everything is indexed on Google
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fear of it being AI'd. (I've been very careful to not to connect my location or voice to anything
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Even if it is modern, 80000 fixtures yearly is a LOT to go through. I'd love to be in such a place...
I wonder what happens to the lamps, if any come with the fixtures.

It would be fun to look through those big piles of streetlights and parts although it mostly looks like modern stuff. At least old fixtures are being recycled but it's still sad to see them go. I wonder what rare fixtures they have handled.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQjWaNTkHwI

IIRC GE switched their capacitors from their in house made ones to imported ones sometime in the late 2000s or 2010s. The ballast cores and ignitors were still built in house by the luminaire division for most common configurations but the capacitors were outsourced. That might be when a quality issue in the capacitors started.

For less common configurations, I remember seeing a picture of a GE luminaire with a imported 3rd party ballast instead of the in house GE. 

I've noticed from a few prank videos that I've watched that take place in convention centers, that there seems to be a few convention centers that still are
heavily using Metal Halides... like the one in Phoenix Arizona. From the recent video I saw, and from the obvious burgundy flicker bands that I saw scrolling
down the screen, that convention center looked to be completely Metal Halide lit, still, in 2026.
Not sure about the convention centers near me though.
Has anyone else noticed this?