Author: Lawrence
Date: 12-03-10 13:55
I have a 46 inches tall, low tension electrified seven strand fence. I have a big energizer, speedrite 12i and have 8000 volts average almost all the time. I have six, 6 foot ground rods for the energizer. I need to control goats and dogs.
My northern Minnesota soil is always moist and my ground is good but the soil freezes very deep up to six feet but not so deep this year. After recent snows the two bottom strands are covered with snow so I hooked them up to two six foot ground rods making it a wire return fence for the time the snow is on the ground at least.
I also grounded the sixth wire, second down from the top. I figure that I would want to have more hot wires than grounded ones anyway but am not absolutely confident on the detail of which wires to ground.
It is my understanding that the wire return may be more effective than a earth return when the ground is frozen especially for smaller animals with hooves. Is that your opinion?
Which of the other wires, if any, would you ground in my situation?
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