Does anyone miss the sodium streetlights? « on: June 27, 2025, 04:19:05 PM » Author: phosco179
Decided to make this post because my area and the surrounding ones have been LED for years now, but recently I’ve witnessed that the last SON lit roads near me have been replaced with LED. It’s depressing seeing a road that was previously bathed in that warming orange light now bathed in dull white light. There’s only one road in my vicinity that’s still predominantly SON lit and I get mixed feelings of happiness and sadness whenever I drive down that road now. Happiness knowing that they’re still there and mostly working, and sadness knowing that these are the last decent sized SON installations in my area and will probably get replaced in the future. I’ve also been thinking of contacting the people that install the LED lanterns and seeing if I could save some lanterns. I already have 2 lanterns in my collection but I’m planning on getting more.
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	Re: Does anyone miss the sodium streetlights? « Reply #1 on: June 27, 2025, 07:42:42 PM » Author: Baked bagel 11
I have a simmilar thing, there's only really one or two streets that are still lit with 400w MV in my city (population ~450k), it makes me sad driving down there, but happy also to see what MV can actually do! As for HPS, I can't think of any entirely, or nearly entirely HPS lit roads in my city. There are still a bunch of MH lit roads in the same area as those MV roads.
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	Re: Does anyone miss the sodium streetlights? « Reply #2 on: June 27, 2025, 08:23:26 PM » Author: Atison_star
My street is full of 50W sodium bulbs. A few streets use 50W a lot. Frankly, it seems a bit insufficient. I heard that they will replace it with 100W. I hope it is not LED.
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	Re: Does anyone miss the sodium streetlights? « Reply #5 on: June 28, 2025, 03:28:18 PM » Author: Alex
Quote from: RRK on June 27, 2025, 11:37:55 PM I do not miss them and do not feel bad for them getting replaced. Never liked orange HPS light in the city. Replacing HPS with 3000K LEDs is a significant light quality upgrade in my opinion. Though, hate LED streetlights in higher than 4000K color temp. I grew up with mercury lights, so certainly is imprinted by this. OK with mercury, MH and fluorescents on the street, however generally do not like old greened out mercury lamps. I agree with you, and can honestly not wait to see the HPS laterns be replaced with some warm wite LEDs in the street I live.
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	Re: Does anyone miss the sodium streetlights? « Reply #6 on: June 28, 2025, 04:24:01 PM » Author: LightsAreBright27
We still have a lot of them, 250w. Sodium orange feels a lot better than daylight leds
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	Re: Does anyone miss the sodium streetlights? « Reply #7 on: June 28, 2025, 07:06:26 PM » Author: Econolite03
The sky used to glow orange when HPS was still widely used in Southern California, marine layers would make it more pronounced. Those were the days.
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	Re: Does anyone miss the sodium streetlights? « Reply #9 on: June 29, 2025, 02:40:42 AM » Author: Medved
I do not miss HPS, what I do miss is mercury vapor. But it is clear to me the MV just were not able to hold.
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	Re: Does anyone miss the sodium streetlights? « Reply #11 on: June 29, 2025, 05:35:06 AM » Author: dor123
Stainberg street and other streets at Kiryat Benjamin neighborhood, used to have AEG Triangel lanterns with Eltam gear and 150W HPS lamps. One of the lanterns that I could see through my window at my room at my hostel, had Eltam ES-PI 1000 anti-cycle ignitor. I used to see them restriking at power outages, but they were replaced by 3000K LED lanterns, and the only visible HPS lanterns remained are the two AEG Triangel at the path between Stainberg and Yalag streets. And they are the only lanterns that extingushes during power outages. The LEDs simply blinks like incandescent during power outage.
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	Re: Does anyone miss the sodium streetlights? « Reply #12 on: June 29, 2025, 05:17:39 PM » Author: LightsoftheWest
Yes, some of it. However, there's still a very significant amount of HPS left in my area. WSDOT, PSE, and TPU all still have myriads of HPS left. However, TPU has stopped maintaining their HPS fixtures and will spot replace them with an LED fixture if it's not working. PSE may or may not have done the same. What I really miss are the LPS luminaires of San Diego County in California. 90% of those are gone now. As far as I know, there are no LPS survivors left in the CalTrans system. The cities of Escondido, Temecula, Poway, Vista, San Marcos, and even San Diego have gotten rid of most of them. The only company I'm aware of that still has a decent amount of survivors is SDG&E.
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