Dang, if only the price was lower

They are truly beautiful!

There was one on ebay about a year ago in working condition, looked great too, just $2000

Have you been to any other Lowe's stores if they're doing the same thing? I might check them out soon if this is happening to other Lowe's stores and pick up a few modern HIDs that I might not have yet or as possible spares. I was at one recently and didn't see any HIDs on clearance.

Just a side note about their life expectancy when in used dusk to dawn mode in street lights. We have 5 heritage lanterns with SDW-T 50W lamps still in use. The first failed lamp we notice after 3 years. We always replace all lamps together after the first has failed. As the lanterns are situated along the river they are cleaned thoroughly. Some ballasts and controllers are still original from 1987/88 with brown resin potted inductor and large electronic controller. The newer ones are the grey painted chokes and smaller potted controller.

I noticed lately that all the remaining HID (MH and HPS) and fluorescent (tubes, CFL, circline and PL) at Lowe’s have been on clearance. I grabbed a circline for my bedroom fixture and a 70 W Lucalox HPS for my NEMA last time. Decided to go again tonight and they were gone. Looked around and everything had been moved to a tall movable cart in another aisle, so grabbed a few more.

My guess they’ll be donating what’s left soon and it’ll all wind up at Habitat. I guess this is it for that selection at Lowe’s.

High wattage incandescents still remain. Oddly some LED circline retrofits on clearance cart as well.

Ooh, heard those are pretty much non-existent nowadays.

Those are GE M-2s that used those odd NA-9 LPS lamps.

"2 WDG. XFRMR" may stand for a huge range of ballasts from PerfektStart to CWA... This really does not define what your ballast is

Depending on how you paint it, do what's needed to prevent paint or solvent from getting to the terminal bushings or flowing into the capacitor

This screenshot shows my city, Saint George, Utah in the 1950s. You can see some top mount LPS looking fixtures in the foreground and some Form 109 fixtures in the background. Who makes those top mount fixtures?

Good to know. the ballast type in mine is one of those 2 WDG. XFRMR ballasts. I asked if these can be painted cause I want to make it look a bit like either a matte grey or light red capacitor that were used in street lights of the era.