So a few months ago I was driving by a church that is on my route, and I noticed something really weird. The Ael 115 on the side of it was really nice and lit up. Except, my whole life living around here, I’ve never seen it turn on. Then the next day, the light was dead. Pitch black over there like usual. I’ve seen this happen to some other fixtures in my area too, it’s really rare, but really weird. What do you guys think happens to make them stay turned on for one night but then cycle the next night?

Could be a coincidence. Maybe every time you drove by, it was mid off-cycle, and then this time it happened to be on. I suppose an intermittently working ignitor could be the cause, but IDK if that is likely. Some lamps take really long to cycle, I have seen one that takes around a half hour to cycle off.

Or maybe it is some sort of other intermittent connection, that is possible.

Yeah maybe. That one just… I never have even seen that light in any stage of cycling, except in 2016 I had to do a summer church camp thing there and it was lit up back there, but that was 10 years ago, so there’s to telling what stage of life that lamp was in at the time.