Re: i probably should have asked this at some point earlier in my life
- From: "aemeijers" <aemeijers@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 08:07:03 GMT
"Stormin Mormon" <cayoung61**spamblock##@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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When I asked this question, the answer was because the bird onlyIn the town I used to live in, dead squirrels at the bottom of the poles
perches on one wire. It's less resistance for the electric to go
down the wire than up the bird, and down the other side of the
bird.
If a bird spanned two wires, it'd get fried. Or if you could
ground the bird, it would again be fried.
near transformers, were quite common. Here, they often blame power outages
on animals that got inside distribution substation fence and walked where
they shouldn't, especially raccoons.
aem sends...
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