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Reactive maintenance is a direct response to a lighting failure, such as replacing a discharge lamp after it has failed or replacing an entire lighting unit after it has been hit by a vehicle. Preventative maintenance is the scheduled replacement of lighting components, for example, replacing all the discharge lamps in an area of the city when ...
The post was designed by Wood with input from PEPCO officials. Because commissioners felt that adequate illumination could only be delivered by two lights, the post had a cross-arm at the top. The post simple in its design, contained room for electrical wires and equipment in its hollow shaft and base, and was easily cleaned. [43] The two-arm ...
A utility pole, commonly referred to as a transmission pole, telephone pole, telecommunication pole, power pole, hydro pole, telegraph pole, or telegraph post, is a column or post used to support overhead power lines and various other public utilities, such as electrical cable, fiber optic cable, and related equipment such as transformers and ...
A balanced-arm lamp, sometimes called a floating arm lamp, is a lamp with an adjustable folding arm which is constructed such that the force due to gravity is always counteracted by springs, regardless of the position of the arms of the lamp.
A Belisha beacon atop its striped pole. This example also features a spot lamp to illuminate the crossing at night. A Belisha beacon (/ b ə ˈ l iː ʃ ə /) is a yellow-coloured globe lamp atop a tall black and white striped pole, marking pedestrian crossings of roads in the United Kingdom, [1] Ireland, and other countries historically influenced by Britain, such as Hong Kong, Cyprus, Malta ...
Like other gas-discharge lamps such as the very-similar mercury-vapor lamps, metal-halide lamps produce light by ionizing a mixture of gases in an electric arc.In a metal-halide lamp, the compact arc tube contains a mixture of argon or xenon, mercury, and a variety of metal halides, such as sodium iodide and scandium iodide. [7]
The protagonist of Salman Rushdie's 1980 novel Midnight's Children, Saleem Sinai, makes repeated references to the Anglepoise lamp in the light of which he writes. Peter Gabriel's "Shock the Monkey" 1982 video features "dancing" Anglepoise lamps. UK post-rock band Fridge released the "Anglepoised" EP in 1997, compiled on Sevens and Twelves.