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electric fence
Author: Bill Clements 
Date:   04-15-14 13:39

I am trying to keep out small animals from a bird nesting area. Small animals being rats, snakes, squirrels, raccoons etc. I am working in Florida, in very dry sandy soil and have only solar power available. The fence is about 2000 feet. Is it possible?

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Re: electric fence
Author: Sara 
Date:   04-15-14 17:34

This is hard to do. The best way would be to put a hardware cloth down starting at 2 feet under ground and have it go 2 feet above ground with 1 hot wire about and inch or so above this. This will give the Pos/Neg effect on the fence. This is the only way we found that will work on snakes and rats.

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Re: electric fence
Author: Ted Nelson 
Date:   04-20-14 16:23

I just purchased a 48" high by 164 feet of poultry fence for my chickens. I have a Patriot P5 charger. I received a spool of aluminum wire with black coating. How do I connect the wire to my fence. Is the aluminum wire supposed to attach to the clip on the end of the fence. If so, how do you get it to fit snugly. I am not getting voltage through my fence.

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Re: electric fence
Author: Gordon 
Date:   04-21-14 13:37

All you need to do is to remove the plastic coating from both ends of the wire 2-3".
Connect one end to the red terminal of the energizer and wrap the other end around
the metal clip at the top and end of the netting.
If you do not have enough voltage on the netting you might have a short on the net.
In most cases we find the short is at the bottom of one of the net posts. The first hot wire gets caught undre the post as you push it into the ground.

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