I am curious as to what other utilities are doing to reduce animal outages in the lower voltage substations. We currently use bus tubing and insulator covers and are looking into bird repellant gels and liquids. Has anyone had any experience with either item?
We too are evaluating infrared cameras. We initially used the Hughes and graduated to a FLIR short wave camera in the 90's. I have been impressed with both the new FLIR and the Mikron cameras that we have seen for evaluation. The one disappointment we have is that the new long waves don't seem...
