05-10-2018, 02:51 PM
Nev,
I had not struck this type of HWS until I moved here. The pump is small and inline with the copper pipe. Mine was replaced a while back as it developed an intermittent short that tripped the RCD and blacked out part of the house including my office/shack area until I finally worked out what was causing the problem.
I am about 35klm as the crow flies from Melbourne CBD and at 500+m elevation.
Agreed on the electric fence. Sadly, I don't have a few acres to play with or there would be another mast or two, but the block behind me is some 20 acres with the National Park on the other side of them. I have an electric fence energiser myself but it had zero impact on the Wombat that has taken to digging holes under my, and neighbours, fences during its nightly rambles. Some of the holes are around 500mm deep as as soon as I fill them in it either digs it out again or moves to another spot and digs yet another hole. Wombat - the bulldozer of the bush!
On the positive side, Icom HF radio can satisfactorily blank out the pulses from the fence etc.
Regards
Bernard
I had not struck this type of HWS until I moved here. The pump is small and inline with the copper pipe. Mine was replaced a while back as it developed an intermittent short that tripped the RCD and blacked out part of the house including my office/shack area until I finally worked out what was causing the problem.
I am about 35klm as the crow flies from Melbourne CBD and at 500+m elevation.
Agreed on the electric fence. Sadly, I don't have a few acres to play with or there would be another mast or two, but the block behind me is some 20 acres with the National Park on the other side of them. I have an electric fence energiser myself but it had zero impact on the Wombat that has taken to digging holes under my, and neighbours, fences during its nightly rambles. Some of the holes are around 500mm deep as as soon as I fill them in it either digs it out again or moves to another spot and digs yet another hole. Wombat - the bulldozer of the bush!
On the positive side, Icom HF radio can satisfactorily blank out the pulses from the fence etc.
Regards
Bernard
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Bernard
VK3AV / VK3AMB
QF22PL
Bernard
VK3AV / VK3AMB
QF22PL