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PostPosted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 11:26 pm 
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Hi all, anybody got any pictures of what they think are bad installations (combination of lantern, bracket and/or column combinations)... I thought I'd start a thread to gather the pictures here.

Let's start it off with a picture of a private installation...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mercuryvapour/4399127102/
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How bad is that?! If it blinked on and off with a red light then it'd look like an airport light! Apparently, this is a temporary installation until the owner can source a decent post-top lantern...

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 11:30 pm 
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Nice uplighter,  :lol: pity that the owner didn't do some reserch before actually installing it.

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 11:56 pm 
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Way too tall to provide good lighting levels!!
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 12:00 am 
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Gotta repost these:

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mazeteam wrote:
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How bad is that?! If it blinked on and off with a red light then it'd look like an airport light! Apparently, this is a temporary installation until the owner can source a decent post-top lantern...


It looks like a Z5590 but upside down!  :lol:

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Way too tall to provide good lighting levels!!
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Yeah we have some Gamma 6s in Lytham on 8m columns exactly like these! Some have been casually replaced by WRTL 2000s. I have always thought what a weird installation they are, surely something like a Phosco P179 or Thorn Gamma 3 would have been more suitable!  :roll:


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Lampman wrote:
Way too tall to provide good lighting levels!!
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That randomly made me smile!

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How quirky. It reminds me a bit of one of those GEC substation lanterns, which look a bit like inverted top-entry lanterns designed to light up the underneath of transformers.


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I take it you mean the GEC5130 Clearspace?


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Glad you all liked the pic - found the site through my flickr referrals!  :D


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I don't which one is the funnier... probably the first one of these, simply because they haven't fixed the dangling lampholder or the missing bowl, but just shoved a bulb in there!

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Lampman wrote:
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That randomly made me smile!

It really is a strange installation. It'd be even funnier if there were a tungsten lamp in there!

The only thing similar to that round here is a Siemens SRL35 on a stub bracket on an 8m column!

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