Electric Fence Help
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dhawken
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Concur. I am curious as to what is going inside the fence. I am no expert on all livestock, but have never mixed the two and haven't had a complaint. Maybe we've been lucky, but we've never used barbed with horses, and only used electric with cattle on rare occasions.
joshuabardwell
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This is fine advice, but given that he's already bought the fence, and it's already installed, maybe a day late and a dollar short.
joshuabardwell
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I agree. I'm not really 100% clear on how you're doing your wiring, but ideally, you should have a lead-out wire that runs from the hot terminal of the driver/energizer to the closest point of the fence, then the lead-out wire should connect to the closest fence hot-wire, and then from there be jumped to the other hot wires using insulated cable. In addition to keeping voltage consistent on the wires, it also means that there is no single point of failure. In other words, if you connect the hot wires head-to-tail, then the fence looks like one long wire in an "S" shape, back and forth. If there is a break anywhere in the wire, everything after the break goes down, including the lower wires. But if you do a "Y" split/splice at the very beginning of the fence, then if any one wire breaks, the others continue to work.
Domush
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joshuabardwell said:
If he loses a cow because it gets caught in the fence after being shocked, he'll be a day late and five dollars short.
It's never too late to do the job correctly, especially when life is involved. It just so happens this time that it will also cost more money to replace the livestock involved than to fix the poorly designed fence. So it works out whether or not you give two plops about the life and comfort of an animal.
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joshuabardwell
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Fair point.
Totally agree with that, it's a horrible death when livestock get wrapped up in barbed wire. Also a good chance kids can get hurt. We have kids cutting through our pasture and every once in awhile they'll take the electric hit if the fence is on. But if they pulled back fast from barbed wire they could easily get cut pretty bad.
Don't know anything about electric fences, but have had two barbed wire incidents happen on my property in the last year.
The first was my own son riding his dirt bike right through it. I mean the bike ended up on the far side but his body was still on the near side. Got quite a mess of nicks and cuts, but nothing that an active eight year old boy can't recover from in a day or two.
The second was some other eight year old boy just running into it on foot after sunset while we were hosting a Scouts camping event. He was even more full of holes but still nothing horrible.
xtn
The first was my own son riding his dirt bike right through it. I mean the bike ended up on the far side but his body was still on the near side. Got quite a mess of nicks and cuts, but nothing that an active eight year old boy can't recover from in a day or two.
The second was some other eight year old boy just running into it on foot after sunset while we were hosting a Scouts camping event. He was even more full of holes but still nothing horrible.
xtn
Hi Guys,
Thanks for the replies.
The fence is holding in cattle. Particularly a few bulls. In this part of the world this setup is quite common. The setup was present before we had the property. Once the power was shut off the cattle destroyed a majority of the fences within the 2 weeks we were not on the property. These cattle don't think much of barb unfortunately.
I followed the gallagher smartfix in the arrow as directed and found an insulated cable that for some reason was causing a leak. I attached up some more fences and there seems to be slow leak ie 0.9-2 amp particularly on the runs over 100 yards.
Kinda really annoying as it will read 0.1 amps at the start of a run then go to over 2 amps in the middle of the run then slowly reduce down to 0.1 amp at the other end of the run. I checked all the insulators on the star pickets and they are fine. I can tell u for sure that the fence is functioning though as the person at the charger turned it on while I was attaching a fastener. Got a good whack!
Thanks for the replies.
The fence is holding in cattle. Particularly a few bulls. In this part of the world this setup is quite common. The setup was present before we had the property. Once the power was shut off the cattle destroyed a majority of the fences within the 2 weeks we were not on the property. These cattle don't think much of barb unfortunately.
I followed the gallagher smartfix in the arrow as directed and found an insulated cable that for some reason was causing a leak. I attached up some more fences and there seems to be slow leak ie 0.9-2 amp particularly on the runs over 100 yards.
Kinda really annoying as it will read 0.1 amps at the start of a run then go to over 2 amps in the middle of the run then slowly reduce down to 0.1 amp at the other end of the run. I checked all the insulators on the star pickets and they are fine. I can tell u for sure that the fence is functioning though as the person at the charger turned it on while I was attaching a fastener. Got a good whack!
TCJatko
Platinum Member
To the OP: Help me out here. Are you saying that your fence charger will supply 6A @ 5 KV? If so, you should be dead if you touch it. Mr. Ohm says that is 30KW of power (P= I X E). To supply such power would require 125 A @240V from the mains. I'd hate to pay your electric bill each month. I'd check your measurements again.