On 21/03/2018 10:33, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Chris J Dixon wrote:
Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

Not quite sure why they need to inform you of a change of bulb. ;-)

My local council did the entire street in a day or less. Didn't even know
it had been done until the lights came on that evening. They managed to do
it without needed parked cars moved.

Same round here, they only needed to change the heads and control
gear.

The resulting coverage does appear far more patchy, and since
there is also less spill reaching property frontages, it feels a
much darker environment if you are walking.

Our previous lighting was high pressure sodium, so pretty good. The LED
replacments seem equally as good in coverage. One nice thing is they dim
them after about midnight. So hopefully save on some energy over the
previous. Only time will tell if they require less maintenance.


They swapped the heads on my local street lights to LEDs a few years
ago. There have been a few failures in the last couple of days.
Presumably the driver has failed (flashing lights) and no doubt this
will require a full replacement of the head.

A separate driver at the bottom of the post would have been a better idea.



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Adam