Electric Fencer Troubles : (

[glenbigness]

I have read several of the threads so I hope I am close now...

My fence line was hot last week now its not shocking the horses or me.

When I touch BOTH lines I get shocked, when one line is grabbed, nothing...

I installed a new 5 mile charger, new line on the 5 grounding rods, with clamps, checked all insulators, all line around the pasture.

There are no tree branches, weeds or grass touching anywhere.

When I use the multi meter around the entire fence it shows current.

The charger reads about 60 clicks a minute so that good.

When I do touch both lines...man I get a good one so the ground seems fine that way.

BUT when I put the jumper wire back on between the 2 lines no more shock...HELP

The horse keeps trying the fence and got out last nigt so I need to figure this out.

thanks!
Glen

 

[Willl]

BUT when I put the jumper wire back on between the 2 lines no more shock

Oops, lost me here, sorry.

 

[MossRoad]

From your description, I'd say you get whacked between the lines because one of them is grounded. Then you say you put a jumper between the lines... that would ground both lines, wouldn't it?

 

[glenbigness]

The diagram show to run the two lines, place the hot lead line on one, and use a jumper between them to carry current around the system. The rep at customer service says it sounds like everything is connected right, so that didnt help much LOL

Glen

 

[Willl]

Can u post a copy of diagram ?

 

[chh]

Your second wire is grounded out somewhere. If nothing is touching it there may be a faulty insulator. Did you use plastic, ceramic or??

 

[Aquaele]

It sounds to me like you do not have a good ground at the Charger.
if you check the print it will show one lead to the Fence and the other lead to ground. You need to drive a ground rod at least 8 feet into the ground and make a good clean connection to make the whole thing work. You can also insulate the top wire, and not the bottom. then connect the hot lead to the top wire, and the ground to the ground rod and to the bottom wire. Around here most just run one wire. Hope this helps.

 

[DennisArrow]

One of two things. Either a bad ground or your hot wires are grounded.

You say you have several ground rods so for me I would start there. With the unit on do you get a shock when you touch the furthest ground rod? Check each of those connections really good. Perhaps if you can run a continuity check from the furthest rod all the way back to the unit.

Ok......you have two fence wires. Neither of those should be grounded. When the critter, which is ground, touches a hot wire the zap happens. If your ground circuit is good, then you need to check every connector, post, and the wire itself.

Do you have a tester? Does one wire test good? When you put the tester on a wire and the other down into the ground what happens. Then the other fence wire which should also be a hot wire by itself what happens. Yes the two hot wires should be bridged together perhaps in several places around the fence line.............Good luck......Dennis

 

[LarryD]

You have five ground rods? Are they set at intervals allong the fence line and connected to the second wire?

If this is true then you are grounding the hot wire when you jumper between the two wire. With the jumpers removed, you get bit because you're passing the current through your arms.

I only ground the charger at the charger and run two hot wires, one at knee level and a single strand up high between the padocks so the horses don't fight over the fence.

 

[capi75rs]

I agree with LarryD and some of the others, you need to remove the jumper wire. I know on my fience the jumper I placed was between the two hot wires and not to the ground wire. I'm willing to bet that your grounding out your hot line by having it attached to the other line. If you want a ground wire ran around your place that is fine but don't connect it to the hot side. On my fience I ran 3 wires. One about 8" off the ground one about knee high and one about waist high and I made the center one ground with the top and bottom hot. I ran the jumper between the top and bottom but not the center. I used this configuration for my horses and never had any issues. You can also just make both of your wires hot and like someone else stated just ground the charger at it's location with a ground rod, I've done this as well and have had just as good success with keeping in my horses. Good luck and keep us posted.