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Hi.
I am looking into having a replacement distribution board / consumer unit fitted into my home.
My problem is that I live in an area where thousands of swans overwinter and breaks in power supply can on occasion happen frequently in any 24hour period .
With my current wire fuse system this is not a problem but if and when I upgrade it will create a major problem if the circuit needs to be reset each time it is tripped.
My current contractor is trying to find a solution to this but I thought I woul£ see if anybody had any solutions whereby the circuits (especialy the freezers etc) would not need resetting each time.
I’m not intending to do the work myself, just looking for guidance.
 
Not sure I understand the relevance of the swans!!

As for power outages, have you "complained" to your supplier?
 
them Swans are a Pikey offshoot of Hells Angels. the ride their choppers up to sub stations and nick all the copper they can find, thus causing your outages. 2 of them have sidecars fitted to carry the stolen copper.
 
The swans fly into overhead cables/infrastructure and blow themselves to pieces I know someone who worked for the grid.

He said the mess was something to be seen, they had to kill the power while they cleaned it all up.

Cheers

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" ANIMAL welfare groups are demanding an enquiry after the deaths of over 170 swans at Monkton. It is believed they collided with overhead power lines and were unable to fly. Five more birds were seriously injured.

Two train passengers travelling separately spotted a large pile of carcasses on Monkton Marshes and phoned a swan rescue centre in Surrey on their mobile phones.

A team from the Swan Sanctuary, Egham made the gruesome discovery on Sunday. Founder Dorothy Beeston said: “There were 173 dead birds altogether, most with broken wings and necks.

“They appeared to have crashed into the overhead lines, and hit the ground. “Many had crawled into ditches and starved, as they were unable to feed themselves.

“Some seemed to have been there for months, but these are the first reports we’ve had. It was absolutely diabolical.”

Ms Beeston said she was pleased that five birds had survived, but all were very ill. One, a seven-month-old cygnet, hit a power line as sanctuary workers were at the site, and is awaiting surgery for a broken wing.

The sanctuary has the only operating theatre in the country specifically designed to treat swans. Ms Beeston said she had been lobbying utility companies for years to get them to put markers on their power lines to avoid birds hitting them.

She said: “In winter especially, swans don’t see the lines until they are almost on top of them. By then it is too late and entire flocks collide with each other.

“If plastic markers were put on the lines, they would be able to see them in plenty of time.”

Her calls have been echoed by Suzy Gale, wife of Thanet North MP Roger, who chairs the Conservative Animal Welfare group. She has written to Seeboard to ask them for markers on lines.

The five injured swans will remain at the Swan Sanctuary until they are fully fit. They will then be rehomed in private lakes, with other disabled swans.

Anyone interested in finding out more about the Swan Sanctuary can visit their website www.swanuk.org.uk, or write to them at Field View, Pooley Green, Egham, Surrey, TW20 8AT
 
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and here's me thinking that Swansea FC were short on players.
 
I think the issue here is not when there's a power outage, but when the power comes back on, there can be a little surge when all the appliances come back on, and that can cause breakers to trip.

There is very little you can do about it, apart from being in the house when the electric comes back on.
I have had cause to phone Scottish Power at times, and they advised to unplug everything in preparation for the power coming back, so that there wasn't a big sudden need for power.

The swan problem reminds me of a story about a squirrel on an 11kV transformer box on a pole taking out two thirds of a caravan park I worked on.
It was sitting on a live terminal. Bushy tail up, brushes the earth and, well...... still smoking when I saw it.

"Was it a red or grey squirrel?"

"Um?.... It was a black one"
 
Hi.
I am looking into having a replacement distribution board / consumer unit fitted into my home.
My problem is that I live in an area where thousands of swans overwinter and breaks in power supply can on occasion happen frequently in any 24hour period .
With my current wire fuse system this is not a problem but if and when I upgrade it will create a major problem if the circuit needs to be reset each time it is tripped.
My current contractor is trying to find a solution to this but I thought I woul£ see if anybody had any solutions whereby the circuits (especialy the freezers etc) would not need resetting each time.
I’m not intending to do the work myself, just looking for guidance.


The swan problem is caused due to our property backing on to the local Wild Fowl Trust Site and them moving in large flocks to feed and catching the cables on the local pylons resulting in the lose of power, often for only a minute or so. The birds are seldom killed but the problem happens regularly in the winter.
 
I think swans are more than seldom killed have you ever seen a swan in flight they are pretty clumsy and very big.

A mate of mine in the valleys in Wales was saying weekly they had to go in and clear up blown up swan on one site.

He said if it collided with something it would be like a bomb going off from the actual contact point bits of swan/guts/etc in all directions.

*Maybe because swans are wet/damp have a large wingspan etc doesnt help)

**Transformer boxes also kill alot of birds utility companies in places have sleaved cables around them.

*** wind turbines are the number 1# bird killers birds get confused and fly into them.

I know my birds




Cheers
 

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