Sodium Lit Gas Station...? « on: July 03, 2017, 10:10:03 AM » Author: suzukir122
We've all seen gas stations lit with mercury vapor, metal halide, and LE... sigh... LED, but has anyone ever seen a gas station lit with Sodium lamps? The reason I've brought this topic up is that I have spotted a Speedway gas station near my job that is running sodium lamps all around. Sodium lights seem to be dominant around that area in general, with sodium lights surrounding the burger king across the street from this gas station, and sodium lighting up the closed Kmart parking lot area as well. But a gas station?
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	Re: Sodium Lit Gas Station...? « Reply #1 on: July 03, 2017, 10:21:34 AM » Author: dor123
Here in Israel, I've seen mainly fluorescent and MH lit gas stations in the past, and currently mostly LED as the gas station lanterns themselves (With the fluorescents, these were simply american style battens of Gaash). With the outside lighting that lights the enterance and exit lanes, I mostly seen 250W mercury and MH road lanterns (Mainly AEG Koffer 150, Grechi Lumada, Mazda Modula and some cobraheads), 400W MH floodlights (Commonly Gaash Zohar asymmetric floodlights and its clones, or typical 400W symmetric black floodlights), and today (Mainly at PAZ gas stations), Cree XSP2 and Rudd LEDWay LED lanterns. Never seen HPS illuminated gas station here in Israel.
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	Re: Sodium Lit Gas Station...? « Reply #2 on: July 03, 2017, 10:27:15 AM » Author: suzukir122
So it's possible that I really may have stumbled across a rare. The gas station also has linear HO lamps around the main portion of the building. But then of course, T8 lighting inside the building. I'm making plans to take a picture of the gas station before LED becomes a thing there. The gas station closest to my job (also a Speedway) has been completely taken over by the LEDs.
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	Re: Sodium Lit Gas Station...? « Reply #3 on: July 03, 2017, 10:32:31 AM » Author: FGS
HPS gas station canopy lights? Now that's something I've never seen before! I've seen MVs, MHs, fluorescent, and obviously LEDs, but never HPS. Incandescent probably in Brazil but that was before I got interested in lighting. Well before LG even existed.
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	Re: Sodium Lit Gas Station...? « Reply #4 on: July 03, 2017, 10:37:27 AM » Author: suzukir122
Huh... so then I really have stumbled across a rare. This is interesting stuff. Been getting gas there from time to time before heading home after work. (Night hours) So they're always lit when I'm there. Now... do I think they're the best lighting for a gas station? Absolutely not. However, it's still really cool to me given how rare it is. Even the exit/enter pole lighting is sodium.
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	Re: Sodium Lit Gas Station...? « Reply #5 on: July 03, 2017, 10:48:40 AM » Author: dor123
At Hadar city center of Haifa, there is a Sonol gas station, which was formerly illuminated by Gaash T12 HO rapidstart battens, having 2xUS Philips F96T12/D HO-O ALTO each: http://www.lighting-gallery.net/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-65713 Now the gas station illuminated by LED.
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	Re: Sodium Lit Gas Station...? « Reply #6 on: July 03, 2017, 11:15:25 AM » Author: suzukir122
Here in the U.S, I've never seen a gas station with HO as the main source of light. (Side canopy lighting only) The gas station at the Meijer across from where I live, surprisingly still has side canopy HO lamps lit. Very poorly maintained though, and most of them were taken down! So the side HO fixtures that weren't taken down are still in operation. There are also two MH spot light fixtures near the main portion of the building, but both have recently EOL'd. The main source of lighting with that particular canopy is LED.
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	Re: Sodium Lit Gas Station...? « Reply #9 on: July 03, 2017, 11:38:51 PM » Author: nicksfans
Yes, I have seen a gas station with all HPS canopy lighting. I don't recall where but I'm sure I've seen it. There's also a gas station in Clemson, SC that has a mix of MH and HPS canopy lights. Looks tacky as hell but it's kinda funny too. I also know of a small gas station in Anderson, SC that appears to be 100% fluorescent with old 2x96/HO fixtures over the pumps and F32T8 in/on the main building. The refrigerated cases might be LED but I'm not sure. Also there are a few utility-owned HID cobraheads and floods lighting the area around the station. I have a strong suspicion that the pump lights will get LED tubes in the next year because that's what that chain has been doing at other locations.
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	Re: Sodium Lit Gas Station...? « Reply #11 on: July 04, 2017, 04:01:57 AM » Author: suzukir122
Wow... well as soon as I get the chance I will be taking pics and uploading them to LG. I didn't know Sodium canopy lighting was really this rare.
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	Re: Sodium Lit Gas Station...? « Reply #12 on: July 04, 2017, 07:04:37 PM » Author: RyanKorponay12
were i live there are actually quite a lot lit by HPS they are all husky gas stations
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	Re: Sodium Lit Gas Station...? « Reply #13 on: July 04, 2017, 10:20:19 PM » Author: suzukir122
That is definitely awesome. The fact that this particular gas station is sodium, despite all other Speedway gas stations converting to LED (including a speedway literally right behind my apartment specifically) leaves me wondering why this speedway hasn't changed. The Speedway behind my apartment, however, does still have their T8 fixtures inside their store, along with unknown CMH track lighting, and HO lamps in their fridges along each door that use ballasts that remind me of LPF rapid start lighting because of the way they EOL.
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	Re: Sodium Lit Gas Station...? « Reply #14 on: July 05, 2017, 10:19:55 AM » Author: Lumex120
I have seen a gas station that had some old-style shoeboxes that were HPS. The canopy lights were still metal halide, however.
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