Electric Fence Help

[texasjohn]

Just had to tell y'all that the Smartfix fence tester is WAY WONDERFUL!!

Just fixed my fence in record time...15 minutes...and found an almost impossible to locate short using it. My estimate is that it would have taken 5 hours for me to find and fix the old way....walk the fence back and forth until I see it, banging on the fence with a stick looking/listening for a short.

Knew a piece of fence...end of the LONG run...was bad....showed 29 amps flowing on one of 3 wires...it was the bottom wire...other 2 wires were in the couple of amps range.

I got in my RTV and started down the fence, testing bottom wire amp flow every 20 or so metal T posts...it showed 29 amps and arrow pointed forward for several hundred yards then tester showed nothing...backed up about 5 posts....high amp flow....forward 4 posts...nothing showing on meter....back up one post....29 amps flowing....shake fence posts....AH HA... hear and see a spark, insulator is there, but finger is broken and wire is being held against T post....go turn off electricity, replace insulator...turn on electricity...now, only 7 amps total flowing (and it's back up to 8000 volts) on this heavily weeded segment. FENCE FIXED IN RECORD TIME!!!

The Smartfix doesn't cost....it PAYS:cool2:

Thanks, Morelia, for your post and putting me on to the Smartfix tester!!!

Conclusion....if you are running electric fence and don't have a tester of this type, you are working too hard to fix your fence.

 

[MotorSeven]

TJ, dang I need to find one of these, that sounds like a good way to do "business".

 

[bullbreaker]

Don't p-e on fence when this bad boy's on guard ! Yikes !

Boone

 

[texasjohn]

Truly powerful...and made in USA...I'll have to look into them next time I need a charger.

 

[DT86]

Don't p-e on fence when this bad boy's on guard ! Yikes !

Boone

32 Joules? D*mn! That makes my 6 Joule (X6i Stafix) look like a toy! And they're cheaper too! :thumbsup:

Taylorfence.net - AC Fence Chargers​

I don't know if I could give up my remote control though. It comes in real handy.


Do you have one or just pointing it out?

 

[bullbreaker]

Truly powerful...and made in USA...I'll have to look into them next time I need a charger.

Yes they even have on there site when you pop up ac chargers the unit you would like or need the annual projected power cost to run. I'am sure you also knowticed there ground rod(s) # recommendation depending on which unit .

Boone

 

[bullbreaker]

32 Joules? D*mn! That makes my 6 Joule (X6i Stafix) look like a toy! And they're cheaper too! :thumbsup:

Taylorfence.net - AC Fence Chargers​

I don't know if I could give up my remote control though. It comes in real handy.

Do you have one or just pointing it out?

No Sir just pointing it out.I just own/have/run a Parmak 50 miler : Electric Fence Charger SE-5 for Electric Fence . Thats outfit I bought mine from. Came accross them Cyclops models looking up chargers on net. Just like I didn;t know Zareba made a 200 miler(20 joule) Zarebaｮ 200 Mile AC Low Impedance Fence Charger, Model EAC200M-Z
Least down here you never see-em at TSC. Largest one they (TSC) sells down here is a Zareba 100 miler. Believe it or not Harbor Freight sells a mini rinky dink solar charger to Search results for: 'fence charger'
know someone that bought one and gave em lots of trouble from get go.

Boone

 

[MotorSeven]

32 Joules??? Sweet Mama!

 

[DT86]

32 Joules??? Sweet Mama!

With that much power I'm thinking you'd start to have problems where there previously was none. Such as ground wires, brace wires and posts being slightly energized from it (excuse my poor terminology) bleeding over.

Kind if like a really hot CB radio I had in high school that would bleed over onto the head sets at Burger King if I was in the parking lot.

 

[texasjohn]

I haven't studied the specs, but suspect that the voltage is about the same as other fence chargers, 8000 V or so on a short, clean line. I think this charger is able to send more current with each pulse and that the pulse is wider than other chargers, thus, more power/jules. If so, then a problem would be exposed only because the voltage is able to remain higher further down the fence, thus exposing a narrow air gap that had not previously experienced that voltage level. The fence charger I have regularly fries grasshoppers/bugs and continues zapping them until they crisp enough to fall away from the fence line.