So someone asked me this the other day.

Why would an HID street light, (with a bad ballast) only kick on as someone walks near it?

I thought about it, and realized I had noticed it too, but paid little attention to it. (As I remember a few like this in my youth, long before I entered the trade.) I think about it now, and have no real answer for it. Anyone have any therories for this?


Mark Heller
"Well - I oughta....." -Jackie Gleason