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New Wed 30 Aug 17 23:39 
 Street lights - bathtub tom
Around a year ago, the (concrete post, sodium lamp) street lights in my road were replaced with new metal poles and fluorescent fittings. I was surprised as elsewhere in the borough new LED lamps were being installed.

Today, a team turned up and replaced all the fluorescent heads with LED fittings.

Does anyone know the relevant savings over the running of fluorescent against the cost of running LEDs? What would be the payback time when taking into account the initial cost of the fluorescent head, the replacement cost of the LED head and the labour cost of changing them?

I wasn't surprised at the replacement of the sodiums, as they'd probably been there for fifty or so years.

As an aside, several of the new heads were illuminated this afternoon. I pointed this out to the fitting team and they replied it will happen until the new lamps get their internet instructions. I think something may have been lost in translation, as English was obviously not their first language.
Do they have some sort of internet capability, maybe a SIM card? I assumed they were controlled by a photocell.
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