pinkteddyx64 wrote:spotify95 wrote:pinkteddyx64 wrote:spotify95 wrote:pinkteddyx64 wrote:spotify95 wrote:pinkteddyx64 wrote:@spotify95 And the first of the new lighting goes up from today.
Also, here's a video of one of the LPS lights being taken down:
https://youtu.be/XQNh5a7POsE
Finally, it's about time LPS was phased out! As LPS does not provide very good light output at all.
HPS, MH or even MV would be better than LPS for light output - but LED is the best of all.
Did you manage to speak to the people there regarding re-use of the fittings?
Remember, HPS is preferred over LPS, but anything will do
I did, and the response was "No chance, these are going straight to the recycling facility".
What if they had dropped it on a passing by car by accident and the car driver was James_W?
But they work so why would they want to then get scrapped/wasted? This is what I hate regarding E-Waste...
Keep going at it though, see what you can get for me.
It would have been a disaster, unless it was indeed James_W driving past - the latter would have been cause for celebration
I'll keep on trying, after all I bet I'm bound to get something over the three years this lighting upgrade will take.
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t's the same old health and safety bullshit as to why they want to completely scrap them.
They've been working for this long though, so what is the actual chances of them blowing up, or blowing us up? Virtually zero? If they'd have posed any danger then they wouldn`t have even been installed in the first place !
It's the same reason why they won't pass on second hand computers etc.
Think about it, if you or I accidentally damaged a second hand street light and got poisoned by mercury or sodium etc, that could be a liability.
Still a load of rubbish though, for good reason.
Think about it: if we are the owners of an electronic item, and we do something stupid with it that causes the item to break or cause severe side effects, then we are to blame.
Therefore, if we get given these lights, then we are the owners of them, and therefore any future problems that we encounter are our problem and our responsibility to get fixed/resolved.
Sodium lights don't go boom very often (if at all!) and the chances of any sodium leaking out of the bulbs are very rare. Plus, if they were low pressure sodium, then we wouldn't even keep them as sodium anyway, we'd get them LED or CFL retrofitted (or similar). Any anyone who knows what they're doing won't have a problem with any of this that we are discussing here, or what we have discussed in other threads.
Mercury wouldn`t be a problem either because the amount of mercury in any lamp (except for a mercury vapor lamp) is going to be small enough to be insignificant. And mercury vapor lamps are long since gone; they got replaced with HPS in most areas.