rather than place a streetlight at a weird 3-way intersection, including a boat ramp that leads straight into the river, my township saw fit to install the light on my driveway, approx 100ft from the intersection. hey, I'm not overly upset, I have my own streetlight which lights up my driveway, my front lawn and front door - best of all, I don't have to directly pay for its electricity.

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Those lamps just stop working, and don't explode.
Contact your local council and they will replace the lamp.
Give them the address or pole asset number.

Also if a lamp is too bright near a house, an additional shroud can be added to minimise light reaching an affected bedroom.

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awww no explosion anyway it's not very annoying as it is basically covered in tree branches so all it does is makes an illuminated tree

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I think you'd appreciate the 50V/15A switch mode PSUs we do at work, they have a tendancy to explode on test... and boy do they go with a bang. Normally they blow the covers off a quad of high power FETs and vaporise some components. Sometimes it even catches fire!

Personally I don't want to go near one for the rest of the day after that's happened. I can assure you it's not a joke when you're probing around and one self destructs right in front of you! I'm sure each one takes a year off my life hehe.

Brian

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One of the guys who works with us thinks it's hilarious to keep hold of those air bag type packets you find in parcels. He lies in wait until you're just about to stick your probe on the high voltage area and then he cracks a few of the damn things off.

Probably another few years down the pan.

Brian

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COOL, i want to see that. what the whole thing explodes or do some of the components explode and causes the rest to blow? why do they blow? is it faulty components?

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Switch mode supplies? Usually some stupid buggre fits the electrolytics the wrong way round. Funny, he's been there since he left school, he'll be sixty next week. Nobody ever told him.
Come to think of it, that test engineer that just flew out into the aisle in a cloud of smoke looks familiar too.......................................

 

We've had that happen where electrolytics get fitted the wrong way around, but usually the cap explodes and that's about it. I think the problem with these particular PSUs is poor design as the FETs self destruct and it causes a cascade failure through the rest of the circuit resulting in quite an explosion indeed!
Quite a curious thing is that the bad FET survives, it's the good ones that explode!

Brian

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photo cell...

and ya know what?
there's no 8 million switches...one for each house at the power company either
they turn your power off by taking out that meter and putting rubber boots on the terminals.

I always used to think some guy had the fun job of flicking each switch. lol

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Some have a light sensor at a main control box, which is why you sometimes see 30 highway lights come on at once. The norm is to have the light sensor on each light though, which is why some street lights go out every time you drive by them (sensor is aimed the wrong way!)

 

When I was in high school, my hooligan friends and I would go around driving at night with a Q-beam spotlight (1M candlepower parabolic spotlight) and just drive down the road turning off the streetlights. They come back on as soon as the light is off and the bulb fires again (2-3 minutes for HID lamps like sodium or mercury vapor).