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Let me cover the European side most of the street luminaires are useally wired either 230/240 or 380/415 volts depending on what they tapped to the grids.

Of course we do have couple series circuit( ring circuit ) as well. If you run into series expect them to be anywhere from 1200 volts to much as 4800 volts depending on the layout and they will use the constat current transfomer to downstep the voltage to the street luminaires.

The only few spots I know they still use the series is airport runway luminaires or large number of street luminaire in such a tight cluster or very long run one of the two.

Last warning with series connected luminaires never remove the bulb without shuntting the constant current transfomer otherwise you will get nailed pretty hard which it did to me before. { about 1600 volts that time }

Merci.
Marc