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| In my area, where I live, mercury vapor and metal halide cobra heads are very rarely used, and the only exception is Stringtown Rd, Grove City OH which has MH cobra heads. HPS ones are still very common for now though Columbus plans to go LED in 2027 so they won’t be used for much longer.
Where you live, are there any cobra heads that are metal halide or mercury vapor and not only HPS? Also, does your place have modern cobra heads in mercury vapor or metal halide or just the older ones?
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| My area hasn't had mercury cobraheads in 25+ years...
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| For as long as I've lived in my area, it's been almost all LED except for some HPS fixtures here and there, they're relatively common (about 25%). But not streetlights are MV. Some metal halide floodlights still light up parking lots, but it's pretty rare. The only mercury vapor I've seen are some storage facilities that use MV Area Lights.
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| There are still spots of MV and MH street lights in the greater Los Angeles area. Still maintained.
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| Some spots of MV in smaller rural communities here. Toronto used a lot of MH and still has a decent number left. From the mid 90s to the early 2020s all of the gumballs were MH and several downtown arterials were MH as well. The gumballs are slowly getting replaced with LED gumballs and the arterials are slowly getting converted to LED.
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| There are very few metal halides over here, almost non-existent.
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| Cities out here with series wiring still have them sporadically, along with commercial properties in run-down areas.
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| It's interesting how long series wiring persisted in some places and the specialized ballasts and isolation transformers that existed to run MV, HPS, LPS, and even LED on those circuits. Toronto got rid of series a long time ago, even the old incandescent gumballs were parallel.
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