CoC Replacing Streetlights - Rage2?

[suntan]

There's three near my house that are burnt out and another that's flickering like mad.

Apparently the new-new LEDs are better.

[lasimmon]

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You say shitty lights. I’ll one up you.

I was an early street for the LED’s. In July one of them started flickering. Full off full on rapidly around 20 times a second. All night long right outside my house.

Ask the city to fix it you say, well you do that and they will claim they have a contract with Enmax to repair lights. And that their service agreement means Enmax can wait as long as 30 days to fix the light. However when Enmax just doesn’t bother to fix said light, and you complain to the city they say it’s not their fault and close your 311 ticket because it’s Enmax’s responsibility.

Oh, and my wife has Epilepsy.

Continue for 6 months until the flickering light finally kills itself and leaves you with the blissfulness of darkness.

So, in my opinion, fuck the new LED’s.

Yah that would suck. There was a light on my drive home like that.. Disco every night!

[ZenOps]

In case anyone is interested, the winter peak now lags behind the summer peak. The last big usage in winter was 2013.

https://www.enmax.com/generation-wir...-system-demand

Which is actually a decent enough reason to invest a little bit in solar, considering its the air conditioning on the hottest sunniest days that are now yearly peak. Then people won't feel guilty about cranking the air on the hottest day of the year.

[killramos]

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Yah that would suck. There was a light on my drive home like that.. Disco every night!

And they are SO much brighter than the old lights. It was actually pretty messed up.

[Maxt]

The waste of money question will come up when they Phillips Hue the downtown core.

[mr2mike]

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There's three near my house that are burnt out and another that's flickering like mad.

Apparently the new-new LEDs are better.

Are these the ones on stoney trail? Bunch are blue now and I'm confident the Sodium Vapor lights that used to be used were awesome and rarely burnt out.
Also sodium vapor bulbs are pretty energy efficient thus why farmers used them for their yards.

https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/hard-on-t...blue-1.6648968

[ThePenIsMightier]

There's a steady span of purple ones near Seaton that look like a shit Civic with a fart can.

[suntan]

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Are these the ones on stoney trail? Bunch are blue now and I'm confident the Sodium Vapor lights that used to be used were awesome and rarely burnt out.
Also sodium vapor bulbs are pretty energy efficient thus why farmers used them for their yards.

https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/hard-on-t...blue-1.6648968

lol that was three years ago. They were in the neighbourhood. Took the city about two years to fix them - because cOvId probably.

[mr2mike]

I just honestly think we're all getting sold on led bulbs being better but they're not. Nothing wrong with the old glass and filament type. The plastic used in led is tougher on environment and I replace more led bulbs in my life compared to the old filament ones.

[ThePenIsMightier]

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I just honestly think we're all getting sold on led bulbs being better but they're not. Nothing wrong with the old glass and filament type. The plastic used in led is tougher on environment and I replace more led bulbs in my life compared to the old filament ones.

You should be put into a camp and incinerated in a furnace with a zero-impact CO2 scrubber.

It's like that time that we all got together to prevent the tides from happening. Don't you remember that? We just tried hard, suffered mildly and then it happened! This is the same. You just gotta sort your garbage for 1.25hr/week and suffer with paper straws. Then you can be certain that your chicken-shit, meaningless existence has mystically contributed to the reduction in temperature of... A... Fucking PLANET.

[Sentry]

I will say I've enjoyed the sky not being turned a heinous babyshit brown at night when it snows now.

[ExtraSlow]

Yeah I like the LEDs for that reason. The orange light from the old streetlights was gross. A condo near me still has orange lights and it looks terrible. Especially now the streets have the better looking LEDs.

[mr2mike]

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You should be put into a camp and incinerated in a furnace with a zero-impact CO2 scrubber.

It's like that time that we all got together to prevent the tides from happening. Don't you remember that? We just tried hard, suffered mildly and then it happened! This is the same. You just gotta sort your garbage for 1.25hr/week and suffer with paper straws. Then you can be certain that your chicken-shit, meaningless existence has mystically contributed to the reduction in temperature of... A... Fucking PLANET.

Feel free to copy/paste into the plastic straw thread too I just replied on. LOooL

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Yeah I like the LEDs for that reason. The orange light from the old streetlights was gross. A condo near me still has orange lights and it looks terrible. Especially now the streets have the better looking LEDs.

But you can definitely see better in the orange light.
Less hot spots and less ocular workout. You hate working out, right? Your eyes are getting one with led street lights.

[Darell_n]

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Feel free to copy/paste into the plastic straw thread too I just replied on. LOooL

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But you can definitely see better in the orange light.
Less hot spots and less ocular workout. You hate working out, right? Your eyes are getting one with led street lights.

One early morning last week, much of NW Stoney trail had no street lights on at all. It was glorious.

[ZenOps]

Orange is not better visually, it was simply that it was the highest efficiency bulb at the time. That and they are "rough service" meaning that they can survive inside a shaking lamp pole next to constant rumble of traffic.

Some light tech is fragile, some does really bad in hot or cold weather. LED has matured to the point where it can survive almost any conditions.

[Swank]

I love how the former school zone by me allows the street lights to be out for several weeks now, I guess it being a playground zone until 9PM is safe enough. The sound of children bouncing off my hood is angelic.

[benyl]

The light on my street were out for 3-4 months before they finally fixed them. I am guessing one burnt out and the knocked out a series connection for the rest to go down. CoC must be short on supervisors.

[ThePenIsMightier]

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The light on my street were out for 3-4 months before they finally fixed them. I am guessing one burnt out and the knocked out a series connection for the rest to go down. CoC must be short on supervisors.

Maybe they had a short...


LoL, kill me.

[16hypen3sp]

Last time I was in Calgary it was night time and I was wondering why so many streetlights were straight purple.

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