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| I've been noticing that some Leotek E-Cobra street lights in my area have been starting to turn purple, mainly older lights that had already turned orange/brown, but I had seen at least one newer fixture start turning purple.
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| Went through Nashua the other day and saw a few GCMs from 2016-18 were out, one had just one diode shining bright. Was just in the interstate though so I didn’t get to see many.
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| there are 2 Autobahn ATB0S on my route home and last summer one started to turn purple it almost had a "MV" look to it from a distance and the other one was normal end of NOVEMBER and the one starting has 1/2 its diodes blue other is fine NOW as of tonight BOTH are about 1/2 of there diodes are blue and looking at them during the evening you can see it is sections that have turned blue and sections are just fine and white
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Now the Cooper Verdeon, well isn’t safe either (2017+). Diodes turning orange followed by total failure. So the Verdeon, Navion, and Archeons are junk as well. More on that in the future.
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| Spotted some AEL Autobahns there have shifted purple. I think they were only around 3-4 years old too.
It seems Signify/Philips LED luminaires are fairly reliable. Some here are pushing 10 years at this point and I haven't noticed any significant colour shifts or failures.
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Stop replacing fixtures that can be retrofitted.
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| From what I've seen, Philips fittings are much more reliable as they use Philips Advance drivers (for the most part) as well as what seem like higher-quality LEDs coupled with proper thermal management.
The only major failures I've seen from Philips is their Lumec RoadStar line. Usually dead diodes and shifting to a hideous pale color.
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| The AEL Autobahn series also use Philips Advance XiTANIUM drivers, and they are quite reliable.
The LEDs still sometimes turn purple, but the drivers almost never fail.
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Stop replacing fixtures that can be retrofitted.
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| True. I've seen a ton of driver failures with Evolves though.
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My favorite lighting technologies at the moment are incandescent and mercury vapor, and my favorite Big 3 lighting brand of the late 20th century is GTE Sylvania.
About that Westinghouse Lifeguard disease, I think I've caught it. Thanks Eric!
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| We've got LED Roadway NXTs and they work pretty well. I haven't seen many fail or turn yellow. Thankfully, my town didn't choose Leotek.
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| @Joseph_125 were the autobahn the ATB0 or the "newer" ATBS/M/L the style with the direct view LEDS OR the one with the "eye" lense and rounded front VS squared off front
we had 1000s of the ATB0's turn purple and a FEW of the ATBS and Verdeon and they are good but so few to judge
we have gone GE and they are holding up except for driver failure with out lights / section of the light out OR flickering OR both on the large scalables
the LEDradways NXT/s are used for laneway lighting and are 39 watts and are 100% reliable and the OLDEST running LED outside of spot testing of those OLD CREE ones that are over 10 now
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