Gallagher S16, super weak zap

[QRTRHRS]

Another trick to having a hot fence is to make the next to the top wire a ground wire and have several ground rods along the fence. With the usual charger set up with ground rods close by (even with a series of three), when an animal touches the fence, that connection has to travel through the earth back to the ground.

The theory is that an animal is likely to touch the top two fence wires and with a quicker ground, get hit quicker and harder. Of course touching any of the remaining hot wires alone will still route the "zap" through the earth back to the grounded charger.

I don't know for sure but charger ratings, solar or not seem similar to horsepower ratings on small engines, yeah, under laboratory conditions.

 

[arizona98tj]

I spent some time looking at your model on the Gallagher web site. Just for grins, I compared it to one of their AC powered models that costs a bit less than your solar model.

Your solar model stores a 0.16 Joules charge and the AC model stores a 3.0 Joules charge.

Your solar model outputs a 0.12 Joules charge and the AC model outputs a 2.3 Joules charge.

So the AC model oputputs 19 times more energy than the solar. Both models are rated to produce a 7,000 volt shock.