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PostPosted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 5:13 pm 
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Ewww haha.

Originally Posted: 22-10-2009, 07:11:29 pm

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PostPosted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 5:13 pm 
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Ewww haha

He he, I suppose it is an unusual-looking thing!

But it does have the advantage of looking like an Alpha Four when viewed from a distance!

Originally Posted: 22-10-2009, 07:16:41 pm


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Great find David.

I think it looks good in my opinion - it has a SOXy feel about it! Also, it could be far worse - just think about how ugly the Stela is! What I like about this is it actually looks like a conventional streetlight, and as David points out, can be mistaken for an Alpha Four from a distance!

Originally Posted: 22-10-2009, 08:38:51 pm


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David, your picture is in also an identical setting to one of mine: http://sidesaladsphotos.fotopic.net/p59974678.html

Same angle, similar tree, similar bracket/ column...

Originally Posted: 22-10-2009, 09:55:01 pm

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It's a product of Portsmouth based Gemma Lighting and Displays.

Originally Posted: 22-10-2009, 11:08:38 pm


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I think it looks like a hair straightener!  :lol:

Originally Posted: 22-10-2009, 11:35:52 pm

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sotonsteve wrote:
It's a product of Portsmouth based Gemma Lighting and Displays.

That was very well spotted! The lights on my brother's RAF base are their Jupiter 48 XL100 model.

A quick look at their product guide reveals that each LED is 1 watt, making it a 48w lantern, athough it consumes 65w of power in total. It produces 4800 lumens (or 3600 operating lumens at 25 degrees Celsius - I'm not sure which figure is applicable to us!). The 55w SOX lanterns they replaced produced around 8000 lumens.

Gemma Lighting also produce 36w and 24w LED lanterns, but nothing close to the 18w lanterns Bolton Council are wanting to install on their residential streets. Their 24w lantern produces 2400 lumens / 1800 operating lumens at 25 degrees celcius, so one assumes that if they manufactured an 18w LED lantern it would produce 1800 lumens / 1350 operating lumens at 25 degrees Celsius.

If that is correct, does that mean that the new lanterns in Bolton's residential streets will be around the brightness of a 100w domestic bulb?

Originally Posted: 26-10-2009, 09:16:31 pm


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I saw something interesting on Saturday. I was in a car going along the A164 from Swanland near Hull... but just before joining the A1079 (at a turnoff for Bentley I think) there was a road lit by what appeared to be LED lanterns mounted on the same columns as the MA90's (or posibly gearless MA50's) were on the main road. They seemed quite bright, but if they weren't LED then they must have been 80w PL-L fluorescent.

Originally Posted: 27-10-2009, 01:03:20 am

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Fluorescent MA50's, its been done before now. Unless they were Residumns.

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Urbis Saturn Land wrote:
Fluorescent MA50's, its been done before now. Unless they were Residumns.

Holland/neatherlands rings a bell there  :)


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