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Grounding problem?
Author: Tony 
Date:   07-25-04 09:30

I have a fenced acre with SuperWide IntelliTape and this summer as the earth has dried out I find that there is no shock at all when the horses contact the tape. They too have figured this out and walked right through the fence yesterday to graze on my neighbors lawn. I repaired the fence (relationship w/neighbor may take longer) but still hardly a shock. If I touch the tape and the ground wire/rod directly a sizable jolt is delivered (don't know why I just didn't use my tester). So I think I'm just not getting enough grounding. I have 5 rods 3ft. in length spaced 10' apart. Should I space them further apart? add more rods? The soil here is very rocky so I don't think I could sink a 6' rod, it was hard enough getting the 3' in the ground. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,
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RE: Grounding problem?
Author: Scott 
Date:   07-27-04 09:18

Tony
It sounds like the problem you are having is a grounding problem. The grounding for the animals (not energizer) is inadequate due to lack of topsoil moisture. This can be fixed by running the fence in a Pos/Neg formatting. Change alternating strands to ground strands by disconnecting from hot (fence terminal) lead and connecting to ground rods. Or add additional strands (grounded) between your hot (electrified) strands. Because horses are fairly predictable when they contact a single wire they still will not receive a shock but as they challenge the fence (normally they will push) they will contact more than one strand. With the strands alternated as Positive and Negative they will receive a harder shock just as you touching a hot strand and a ground rod. This should make your system effective as when the topsoil had moisture.

Thanks
Scott
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