AVISHOCK
Features and Benefits
- DISCREET - only 6mm high, choice of colours
- Very effective - all species, all pressures
- Versatile - curves up and down, side-to-side
- Durable - UV protected, withstands damage
- Fast to install - glue in place
- Guaranteed - 5 years track, 2 years energisers
- Very low running costs
- Humane - tested by Central Science Laboratories
Components
Flex Track
Energiser
Lead Wire
Quick Connectors
Quick Tap Jumpers
Low Profile Connectors
Warning Signs
Foam Pads
Survey
- Usual bird survey, but also
- Where are birds landing (e.g. on raised areas)
- Ledges above? - droppings could cause shorts
- Angle of ledges
- Where locate power supply
- Area secure from public
- Height of window ledges/handrails
- Overhead powerlines?
- Explosive gases?
Design
One-sided ledges & signs - pigeons/gulls
- One row on ledge edge
- Heavy pressure - subsequent rows 50mm spacing
One-sided ledges & signs - starlings/sparrows
- One row on ledge edge
- Heavy pressure - subsequent rows 30mm spacing
Parapets/open ledges
- Row on each edge
- Wide ledge or heavy pressure - row(s) also in centre
Ridges
- Round - 1 row on top; triangular - row each side touching each other with alternating polarities
Energiser
- Small: powers up to 150m; Large: 150m to 300m
Safety
- Use only Avishock components
- Installation and maintenance only by staff trained in Avishock
- Principle hazard is falling from height if startled by shock - do not use ladders
- Follow 15 step installation guide
- Do not install on window sills lower than 0.8m, or handrails below 1.1m
- Can be installed over lightning conductors on parapets
- Do not connect to earth
- Max 1 energiser per run of Avishock
- Min 3m orthogonal projection from power lines <1KV
- Min 15m orthogonal projection from power lines >1KV
- Lead wires must not be close to other cables
- Do not install where explosive gases present
- Isolate the energiser whilst Avishock being worked on
- Only diagnostic testing with system live
- Position warning plates at 5m intervals (ideally vertically)
- Advise customers on safe ongoing use of Avishock
Tools
- Digital voltage tester
- Net/Flex Track Shears
- Wire Stripping Tool
- Connector Crimp Tool
