Street Lights in TH Community

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MikeS1
Posts: 521

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Has anyone changed out their street lights lately in favor of newer technologies like LED's. Any advice? Our TH community has about thirty 14ft fiberglass post lamps with incandescant bulbs that are placed in common areas around the community. The community purchased these from the power company on a long term contract almost 20 years ago. We're working with the power company now to investigate current lumen cost, but I was just wondering if anyone else out there has been to this movie lately? Tks.

MicheleD (Kentucky)
Posts: 4,491

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I'd be very interested in the replies to this as well!

PeterB1 (Florida)
Posts: 257

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Same situation...

We were told the cost of the new fixtures and installation would negate any benefit from the lower cost of electricity.

RickW (Illinois)
Posts: 169

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Excellent question. I hope more people reply! We've not even discussed this option but I certainly will depending on replies here.

If I might add to the question...We have wall mounted garge lights, 2 per unit x 56 units, that come on by sensors at dusk until sunlight. The fixtures take a 60 watt incandescent bulb. Some unit owners have been using the new cfl bulbs. I'm wondering if there is a way to change these to LED.

KirkW1 (Texas)
Posts: 1,665

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In this area most places pay a flat fee to the utility provider that covers the electricity and maintenance for such. As such, the utility company is starting to work to replace lamps with more energy efficient units.

Be aware that LED technology is not really to the place of providing the light output for a street light. And if you did find one that put that level of light out it would take more years to save the cost then the unit is rated for. But it would be good for the environment. Well, sort of since some generation plants aren't capable of ramping production up and down with the demand of the day and thus generate more power then needed at night.)

GlenL (Ohio)
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We had twin flood lights on the garages to light the parking lot and because they were exposed to the elements they burnt out quite regularly and were expensive to operate. We replaced them with mercury vapor lights and I don't think that we've replaced one of the bulbs in over four years. In addition to providing more light, they are also less expensive to operate than the bulbs they replaced and are available in a variety of wattages.

Mike we own the lights in our community which sound like yours however we are responsible for the upkeep and maintenance. The only thing we pay the power company for is the juice to run them. I found a neat site that sells lamps at reasonable prices if you contact me off forum at [email protected] I'll send you the link to them and no I don't work for them.

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MikeS1
Posts: 521

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Thanks a million Glen!

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