Good evening everybody,
Finally some images of the P-LL converted SRS201's. Its taken a fair few weeks of waiting to get the right lighting conditions, but I was determined to capture these before they are lost. I tried my best but I'm afraid I'm no photographer and these images came from a smartphone.
From what I can tell the East Riding first piloted the conversions sometime in 2008-2009, The first examples I saw were on Beverley Road in Hull . This road area had seen all but 6 of the 180w SOW MA60's replaced by Holophane QSM's. These remaining 6 were adapted to run 2 x PL-L. These have now been replaced by Urbis Sapphires.
I assume these were trials ahead of the big white light drive in 2012, when 99% percent of all SRS and MA SOX lanterns were replaced by Thorn Celests. Randomly around the East Riding certain MA50's were also converted to run single PL-L tubes, probably also trials.
Beverley itself seems to have had a white light approach for the last 15 years, with CFL and CDM and being a very early adopter of the Stela. The A1035, which acts a Northern bypass for Beverley, had it its MA60's and SRS201's converted sometime in 2010. Interestingly they are group switched, the road being split into 3-4 groups.
Reducing the shutter time allows us to see the two tubes more clearly.
No surprise in how they perform. Light distribution is even and without the glare of SON or LED.
A very grainy photo of a wet morning in November.
Whilst these will likely be replaced in the next couple of months by post-top VMAX's, I'm pleased these classic lanterns were given another lease of life in converted form.
Heres the GSV link https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.85654 ... 312!8i6656
SilverRay88,