{"id":5234,"date":"2021-03-29T09:56:11","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T09:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/?p=5234"},"modified":"2023-03-27T15:59:15","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T15:59:15","slug":"that-purple-haze-from-a-few-streetlights-just-bad-bulbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/2021\/03\/29\/that-purple-haze-from-a-few-streetlights-just-bad-bulbs\/","title":{"rendered":"That purple haze from a few streetlights? Just bad bulbs"},"content":{"rendered":"
When some streetlights around North Carolina began mysteriously turning purple this month, residents turned to Reddit for answers. They wondered whether the colored lights were a tribute to Prince, a nod to women\u2019s history month, or the sign of an alien invasion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n As it turned out, the purple tint was nothing more than some bad light bulbs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The streetlights, which are maintained by the power company Duke Energy, changed color due to a manufacturing error with the LED bulbs. It caused their white coating to fade with time, revealing a base purple color underneath.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201c<\/span>Other utilities across the nation using the same stock of lights are experiencing similar issues,\u201d said <\/span>Duke Energy spokesperson Jeff Brooks<\/span>. \u201cWe are working with the vendor to better understand the issue, and they are taking steps to ensure it does not happen again.<\/span>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Consider yourself lucky if you\u2019ve seen one. Of more than 360,000 LED streetlights in the Carolinas maintained by Duke Energy, only 1.4% of them contain faulty bulbs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Still, residents are noticing.<\/span><\/p>\n When Shawn Rocco, a multimedia producer at Duke Health, found a cluster of the purple lights near Sherwood Githens Middle School, his first thought was that purple may have been one of the school\u2019s colors.<\/span><\/p>\n Rocco was inspired to document the lights in a <\/span>video<\/span><\/a> set to Jimmy Hendrix\u2019s \u201cPurple Haze\u201d. It wasn\u2019t until he posted the video on Reddit and users commented that he came to understand the real reason behind the mysterious tint. It wasn\u2019t what he expected.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m not an electrical engineer … but I would think they would have tested these before they shipped them,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n Why are the streetlights purple near Githens Middle School?<\/a>
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