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Favorite Light Optics « on: August 02, 2008, 08:40:04 PM » Author: form109
what are your favorite optical control types.

non-cutoff

semi-cutoff(drop lense)

cutoff(sag lense)

full cutoff(flat lense)

i prefer drop lenses.
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Re: Favorite Light Optics « Reply #1 on: August 02, 2008, 08:51:10 PM » Author: lite_lover
My favorite is the Drop lens.
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Re: Favorite Light Optics « Reply #2 on: August 03, 2008, 01:53:53 AM » Author: Silverliner
Drop lens here too.
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Re: Favorite Light Optics « Reply #3 on: August 03, 2008, 02:02:33 PM » Author: GE M-400A1
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Re: Favorite Light Optics « Reply #4 on: August 08, 2008, 10:37:37 PM » Author: Foxtronix
Drop, for all the light distributions possible!  ;D
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Re: Favorite Light Optics « Reply #5 on: January 01, 2009, 01:38:50 PM » Author: form109
to me full cutoff and cutoff streetlights just look like they are missing something.
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Re: Favorite Light Optics « Reply #6 on: January 01, 2009, 01:58:13 PM » Author: gmercury2000
On older fixtures I perfer drop lenses ie: Silverliners and so on. Newer fixtures look good with FCO imo!
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Re: Favorite Light Optics « Reply #7 on: January 01, 2009, 02:18:25 PM » Author: TudorWhiz
I think the GE M-400A3s look the BEST with sag lens! I saw FCO and drop lens version...ehhh...sag lens look the best on GE M-400A3...

For older fixtures drop lens...

And Form109 have you ever seen sag lens in person? We have thousands and thousands of em with sag lens....they don't look missing LOL

Now did you know that there are 2 different type of sags? One is the junky sag which is found in AE fixtures and the Thick sags found in GE fixtures......

The AE is all flat and curved doesn't look like it makes much effect while GE sags are thick and seems to act as a magnifying glass....so GE sags are same kind of glass as a drop lens while the AE sags are more like a FCO glass (since FCO glass are thin too)

oh don't forget they also made DIFFUSED FCOs......Dave has a Tudor OV-15 with a diffused FCO lens that does a better job than a clear one!
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Re: Favorite Light Optics « Reply #8 on: January 01, 2009, 02:23:16 PM » Author: form109
yes i have seen a sag lensed fixture,Cooper OVY's installed on newer traffic lights are sag lenses,they also have a few American Electric Model 125's with sag lenses downtown.

i see more drop lensed fixtures than anything else,so cutoff and full cutoff fixtures,dont see all that much use around here,so im not used to seeing them,thats why i said it looks like they are missing something TO ME. 8)
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Re: Favorite Light Optics « Reply #9 on: March 09, 2009, 04:27:44 PM » Author: Medved
FCO. And with non yellow light source in it. As it's not easy to sleep, when 2700K CFL shine into my window...
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Re: Favorite Light Optics « Reply #10 on: March 09, 2009, 07:46:27 PM » Author: form109
FCO. And with non yellow light source in it. As it's not easy to sleep, when 2700K CFL shine into my window...

luckily,i have very dark curtains so the light from the 175 Watt American Electric 115 outside my house doesnt bother me one bit! 8)
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Re: Favorite Light Optics « Reply #11 on: March 18, 2009, 04:30:38 AM » Author: DaveMan
If we are talking about cobraheads exclusively, drop refractors, with or without glare shield for most of them, then sag lenses then FCO in that order. However, the one exception for that is the OVX, which seems to look better as a FCO.
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Re: Favorite Light Optics « Reply #12 on: December 03, 2009, 07:08:11 PM » Author: streetlight98
Drop lens for me!
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Re: Favorite Light Optics « Reply #13 on: January 14, 2010, 04:01:49 PM » Author: gailgrove
Drop lens AEL 125s.
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