Electric Bird Strips

[alltex]

Electric Bird strips on signs. Anyone use them? We ran across some on a service job yesterday. This is my first time in 24 yrs in the sign biz. I can recall actually seeing these in place. The voltage was fluctuating from 110-440 volts. The sign we were working on was approx 30' of raceway. And this "Strip" was continual, and siliconed down. So my techs had to cut it. So they could access the section which had the bad transformer. (They did remove all screws on all the lids. But couldn't wrangle 30' of lids with 1 truck)

Anywho, that made me wonder about the safety of these products. So I tracked down the manufacturer. Went through their website. Looking for a UL/MET or any certification label on their product. The only Label I could find. Was on their "Power Supply" Which stated it was UL compliant for an Electric Fence. I left a voice mail, and an email. Still awaiting their reply.

I am by no means, trying to knock their product. But, this poses a problem for me. The fascia this raceway sign is attached to is Efface. Obviously this has been in place for a while. So my tech reconnected the cut out areas. Spliced them, and weatherproofed, the best to his ability. Tested the raceway lid, for any bleed through voltage. Found none, and turned it back on.

We have to go back and and replace a trim cap face. I'm going to have the techs disconnect. Unless I get a confirmation this is up to code.

What say you S.S.?

Pic attached.

[Signworksinc]

i would disable it and use spikes

[Erik Sine]

Same here, disable due to safety and code.

[alltex]

Disabling them is my plan, as stated. Still awaiting an answer from the manufacturer. I guess no one has used these/came across these before. My guys said they worked well. No turds on the raceway cover. Too bad they can't get me some supporting UL docs. I could sell miles of these. We do use the spikes. But if those flying rats get one nest established. They tend to continue it down the entire spike strip.

The D/FW area needs to poison about 50 million sky rats. And get this problem under control.