SOX streetlights in Sutton

[@PhoscostarP380]

Awesome video! It’s fantastic to see that there are still quite a lot of SOX left in Sutton!

[@180WSOX]

@@PhoscostarP380 thanks! There sadly isn't much left, probably around 100 lanterns in total (and that's as of early October).

[@PhoscostarP380]

@@180WSOX Oh dear! That’s a massive shame.

[@180WSOX]

@PhoscostarP380 agreed. Between around February and July all the rest were replaced, but replacements seemingly halted leaving a small amount of SOX and SON lanterns remaining. I'm not sure if they still survive though.

[@AabhavOwo7]

Oh I love Suttons old street lights I took one video of a street light warming up with a Sox bulb along the grange vale road near my house

[@terryreay5644]

Best since sliced bread!

[@Gatlampskanalen]

Nice to see you still have working LPS/SOX lamps. Also is that pole about to be replaced?

[@180WSOX]

@@Gatlampskanalen probably will unfortunately

[@AabhavOwo7]

I live in Sutton by the way

[@180WSOX]

@@AabhavOwo7 I used to, which is partly why I'm so sad to see the SOX replaced, not to mention the new lanterns are excessively glary

[@thelightingenthusiast]

Nice! Hopefully, these won’t get replaced with LEDs anytime soon. Fingers crossed.

[@180WSOX]

Thanks! Most surrounding roads had lost their concrete columns, and only occasionally the steel columns still had SOX lanterns

[@stephensnell5707]

You must be aware that they will be replaced by L.E.D. Street Lights eventually

[@AabhavOwo7]

Do Sutton council of London try to sell the old concrete street lights and bulbs to street light collector fans. If they do sell them I will definitely go to the Sutton council to get a couple of Sox street light fixtures and use them for my KZbin videos

[@180WSOX]

@Ukplayz12 I don't know sadly, but probably not

[@AabhavOwo7]

Gander green lane changes their lamp posts into post top LEDs

[@180WSOX]

@Ukplayz12 sadly true, except for a few which survived replacement but for how much longer that will be the case is anyone's guess

[@HIDSON-TPIA]

Good!😄

[@180WSOX]

Thanks! They probably won't be around for long though

[@HIDSON-TPIA]

yes unfortunately like all gas discharge lamps there will only be these stupid LEDs 😥 but this will happen in a few decades I think especially the HPS which is most gas discharge lamps I think it will still be around for years because in Greece even though most of them have changed to LED there are still many HPS and mercury lamps, in my neighborhood there is also a small street with 5 mercury and LED lamps and in a church next to my house there are three 250W philips and osram mercury lamps but they are not very old the lamps are white although in recent years they started to green up a bit and also there is a big road next to Athens that joins other roads called ATTICA ROAD and it only has HPS and this road goes to the airport and continues it is a very central road and there are many HPS around the airport even LPS I saw nearby but some were red and how many other roads are there that still have HPS and in a nearby mountain area there are some HPS and two of them are cycling and another two in my neighborhood which is next to a station only works the one! greetings from your country and in the street lights at some point we will probably have them in our collection lol 😉😊

[@HIDSON-TPIA]

how many do you have in your collection? I have from HPS, two master son-t pia plus 70 and one 150w, three son-t 70w, one son 70w, one osram vialox nav-e 70w, one geyer 70w, one diolamp 70w, two adeleq 70w and from MV, I have the osram hql mbfu 125w and an electronic ballast philips prima vision xt son70 and two magnetic ballasts HPS 70, 150 and a ballast MV 125w😊☺️😍 too bad I don't have any SOX😭😔 Do you like my collection?

[@180WSOX]

@johnjunior5421 your collection is good. I have over 400 bulbs, but in terms of HID I have a Tungsram/GE 70w G12 metal halide lamp, a Radium 50w SON-I lamp, an Osram 70w SON-I lamp, an unbranded 250w MBF (mercury) lamp, a 150w GE SON-T lamp, two Philips 150w SON-T PIA Plus, three Philips 35w SOX Plus lamps, two Philips 70w CDO lamps and a Philips 45W Cosmopolis CPO-TW lamp

[@HIDSON-TPIA]

Wow great I really like your collection! 400 lamps is a lot lol I also have the radium RNP-E but at 70w with an integrated ignitor

[@yomairamartinez3679]

😮😮😮😮??? 5d