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| I have few owned big pole street lights that operating at night at right next to street. Most small city and some large city really don't care what your doing add new street lights. Sometime its helpful for neighbor... But there certain you should take care not make blind other drivers or annoying other residential houses. if you put huge Westinghouse MRE clear bulb 1000/1500 watt flood light beam direct. They will not like it and they (city or local residentials) will do against you.
Good luck obtain the nice pole for cheap, most time they are very expensive. Especially if they are over 20ft height and made of alum or steel. Wood pole okay but they will eventually rot and fall down. Black Locust wood pole awesome and much better can't get rot easy but money talks.
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| This is good information also!
I want to have my poles to be 40' galvanized steel truss arms (15' long truss mast arm) or those elbow davit arms my state (Utah) used to use in the 70's.
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| I currently have 3 streetlights and the Wide-Lite installed on my property . People from the city have been in my yard and never said a word about them .
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| HeH i was pondering about your set ups. But you're lucky because most states have strict lighting laws and local ordinances and stuff like that.
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| The local utility offers cobras as rental lights in some situations . There's an AEL 115 rental light right down the road from me .
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| Huh, pretty interesting but I'm talking like full blown commercial street lighting poles/luminaires.
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| My thought is that if the utility can do it , I can do it !!
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| That's a great thought process! like others have said: If it is wired and installed up to code then it's fine.
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| I've seen used poles for sale on sites like Kijiji and FB marketplace. Although I suppose if I was going to drop that kind of money on a light pole I'd buy a new pole and get a MTO style 6ft truss arm made to spec. I suppose full blown poles are a bit rare to see on private residential properties but I imagine cost, not regulations are the main barrier.
A full blown streetlight is probably less glary than a power bracket style luminaire on a wood pole, which was the standard for private area lighting here for decades.
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| Yeah, ordinances are a bit tricky when it comes to this kind of stuff.
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A full blown streetlight is probably less glary than a power bracket style luminaire on a wood pole, which was the standard for private area lighting here for decades.
I have a setup like this and my neighbours actually like the glare it produces. They told me that it saves them from turning on lights when they go to the bathroom during the night. |
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That's a great thought process! like others have said: If it is wired and installed up to code then it's fine.
Like I said though, it depends on if your local authority has any planning rules in place that would prevent you. And you have to think of neighbours as well, some might like it, as in sol's case, but some might not and could cause problems for you. |
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| Local building/electric codes may tell you otherwise !! I do remember reading here on LG of someone's community limiting residential property outdoor lighting to nothing brighter than 800 lumens (60w bulb) !! I also know that some modern codes MANDATE THE USE OF LEDs in new installations . Many here will say " I'll put up their LEDs and change them to whatever I want after inspection!" What do you do when they happen by a few weeks/months later ? Some municipalities are real jerks like that !! Plus , most electricians won't even consider touching any non-LED light source anymore .
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| I don't suppose authorities travel around at night with a spectroscope, now...
Around here, lots of electricians will touch anything that is not LED, provided it is to remove it and replace it with LED ("because HID is not made anymore").
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| Any electrician who wants the work should install whatever the customer wants. That's their job, nothing more, nothing less. Much as I detest LED, if I were a working electrician and a customer wanted LED, then that's what I'd have to fit. Either that or decline the job, and not many people can afford to turn down work these days. If they want HID, then that's what they get, even if I had to buy it from eBay. In fact I've heard of more than one sparky here who has had to do just that to fit what their customers have asked for.
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