Electric fence Polytape Question

[riptides]

I am running two strands of PolyTape on T-posts.

I can get a charge (shock) out of the first strand, but the second strand is dead.

This is right next to the charger. I am using a PolyTape conector, and connect the charger to it. The PolyTape connector strands BOTH the upper and lower PolyTapes.

What gives? Too much sun? Or ditch the connector and run the charger to both lines? Bad ground?

-Too hot....

 

[RonMar]

Is the dead wire going to ground someplace and absorbing all the energy off that wire(or at least enough to keep you from feeling any)? have you tried hooking the power supply to just the dead wire? If you hook it to just the dead wire and still nothing, then your current is going somewhere instead of building a high enough voltage to shock you.

 

[shvl73]

I would think a bad ground would mean little, if any shock. We have poly tape and I just have a jumper wire from the first tape to the second. The wire is sandwiched into one of those flat metal clamps that will catch all the conductors.

 

[riptides]

To close this thread. I made it down to the hardware store and replaced the
jumper connecting the two fences. That did it.

-Mike Z.