bird abatement [RE-wrenches]

[Bill Loesch]

Regarding the audible deterrents more than one company makes such (AC
powered) devices.
One of those companies is/was(?)
Weitech in Sisters, OR
1 800 343 2659


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Duchon" <info at asappower.com>
To: <RE-wrenches at topica.com>
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 3:44 PM
Subject: RE: bird abatement [RE-wrenches]


>
> While installing solar streetlighting units this issue has come up often
> along the coast.   We have seagulls and crows.
>
> Here's a good product that you can adhere to the top edge of a tilted
> module's frame (or row) with a good tube glue/adhesive caulk. Run a bead
in
> the glue trough on the back of the product and schwack on carefully, may
> require clamping.   You can also affix with screws.
>
> http://www.birdbgone.com/birdspike2000.htm
>
> I believe the taller edge is more attractive for sitting, wherever modules
> are tilted, so don't know about effectiveness of product for flat or min.
> tilt flat-roof applications.
>
> Can't do much about the fly-over bombing runs, however, there may be an
> audible deterrent solutions that will steer birds from flying through the
> system owner's airspace?
>
> Here are some visual deterrents.   I like the umbrellas but wonder if
these
> dangly deterrents and the small shadow they would create would be just as
> bad, but I think less than fried-on bird droppings
> .
> http://www.flybye.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=8
>
> Peter Duchon
> ASAP POWER!
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jerry Caldwell [mailto:solarcowboy at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 12:11 PM
> To: RE-wrenches at topica.com
> Subject: bird abatement [RE-wrenches]
>
>
> Wrenches,
>
> We're planning a project which will be on the waterfront here in San
> Francisco.  The building on which the array is to be installed is covered
> with a large amount of bird droppings - and this project is to be a PPA,
so
> system performance is crucial.  Does anyone have experience installing
> pigeon spikes or employing any other methods to keep birds from mucking up
> arrays?
>
> Cheers,
> Jerry Caldwell
> Recurrent Energy
>
>


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