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First time I've seen this

🕑 Added 2024-02-23 00:24:10 +0000 UTC

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Dave Frederick

Is there a simplicity that they could have used here? Like the traditional DC supplies with a big transformer and huge caps? Why does there have to be hundreds of surface mount components?

Dave Frederick

Damn. Too bad that the engineers didn't just come up with something a little more simple to work with the ballasts that last decades? Not sure.

Palmit

Street lights are fascinating. If you ever see a knocked over light pole (usually crashed into by drunken idiots), don't be shy to pop over and take a look. For those that are inclined, there is some very lengthy, very high quality wire and probably the led head and control unit too. slap 13amp fused plug on the wire and it'll work straight off a normal domestic plug socket. Really interesting to see the innards tho. thats magic in there. the technology involved in the things is amazing, and yet still somehow cheaper than traditional sodium lamps. amazing stuff.

David Lockman

"As supplied it was covered in mud and had water in the LED section, suggesting it had been stood vertically outdoors for a while, with the pole port up." "Pole port"? That's what the kids are calling it these days? ;-)