Mercury Vapor Street Lights and Watthour Meters

By Joe Maurath, Jr.; posted November 29, 2013

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All but a small portion of my collection of old street lights and watthour meters within one of my outdoor displays. Most of the meters on the right are of the off-peak manual timer switch type. The latter are long obsolete in favor of more modern methods of wireless separately-metered off-peak electric water heater load control.

Added note: that long straight-sided skinny brown porcelain thing on the left is a teens lightning arrestor. It was found unused in an old substation as a spare in the 1990s.

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